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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday granted Elon Musk’s SpaceX a license to launch the company’s second test flight of its next-generation Starship and heavy-lift rocket from Texas, the agency said. SpaceX said it was targeting Friday for a launch, saying a two-hour launch window opens at 7 a.m. Central Time (1300 GMT) and […]

A controversial section of federal law that gives U.S. intelligence agencies the ability to conduct warrantless surveillance of the communications of non-U.S. persons abroad will expire at the end of the year, creating pressure on Congress to renew it, even as privacy activists demand that it be reformed. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance […]

Israeli soldiers are continuing operations in and around Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, which they raided early Wednesday in pursuit of Hamas militants just minutes after warning health ministry officials of the impending operation. The Israel Defense Forces described its operation as “precise and targeted.” Israel says Hamas used the hospital as a command center, and patients […]

Advances in childhood cancer are a success story in modern medicine. But in the past decade, those strides have stalled for Black and Hispanic youth, opening a gap in death rates, according to a new report published Thursday. Childhood cancers are rare and treatments have improved drastically in recent decades, saving lives. Death rates were […]

WASHINGTON — Ending the threat of a government shutdown until after the holidays, Congress gave final approval Wednesday night to a temporary government funding package that pushes a confrontation over the federal budget into the new year. The Senate met into the night to pass the bill with an overwhelming 87-11 tally and send it to […]

Current homeowners and potential homebuyers are responding to lower mortgage rates, albeit slowly. Mortgage demand rose 2.8% last week, compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. That was the second straight week of gains. After dropping sharply the previous week, the average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate […]

The Ukraine’s president is saying Russia was experiencing more losses there than it did in nearby Bakhmut, another war hotspot. In other news, Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to announce his intention to run in the 2024 presidential election campaign during his annual press conference and public phone-in, the U.K.’s Ministry of Defence said […]

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 336-95 on Tuesday to approve a plan to avert a partial government shutdown on Saturday but at the same time push off contentious debates over spending priorities until early 2024. Current funding for all government agencies expires at midnight on Friday, forcing Congress and the White House to reach […]

The PGA Tour said Tuesday it will begin to offer professional players direct equity ownership in the new company that will be formed after it reaches a deal with investors, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC. The tour is currently in negotiations working toward an investment agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, […]

SpaceX is pushing hard to launch the second spaceflight of its Starship rocket this week, CEO Elon Musk claimed the company will receive its federal launch license in the coming days. SpaceX needs a launch license from the FAA in order to make its second attempt at flying Starship to space. SpaceX is pushing hard […]