Millicent Brown, right, and her daughter, Nova Brown, 5, pose for a photo outside their home at a public housing complex before school on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)2025-04-28T15:30:01Z HOUSTON (AP) Since her birth 10 years ago, Mackenzie Holmes has rarely called one place home for long. There was the house in Houston owned by her grandmother, Crystal Holmes. Then, after Holmes lost her Southwest Airlines job and the house, there was the trio of apartments in the suburbs and three evictions. Then another rental, and another eviction. Then motels and her uncles one-bedroom apartment, where Mackenzie and her grandmother slept on an inflatable mattress. Finally, Crystal Holmes secured a spot in a womens shelter, so the two would no longer have to sleep on the floor. With nearly every move came a new school, a new set of classmates, and new lessons to catch up on. Mackenzie only has one friend shes known longer than a year, and she didnt receive testing or a diagnosis for dyslexia until this year. She would often miss long stretches of class in between schools. Crystal Holmes, right, greets her granddaughter, Mackenzie Holmes, 10, as she arrives at Mission of Yahweh womens shelter after school on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Houston. A service provides transportation to and from school for Mackenzie. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) Crystal Holmes, right, greets her granddaughter, Mackenzie Holmes, 10, as she arrives at Mission of Yahweh womens shelter after school on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Houston. A service provides transportation to and from school for Mackenzie. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Schoolchildren threatened with eviction are more likely to end up in another district or transfer to another school, often one with less funding, more poverty and lower test scores. Theyre more likely to miss school, and those who end up transferring are suspended more often. Thats according to an analysis from the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, published in Sociology of Education, a peer-reviewed journal, and shared exclusively with The Associated Press Education Reporting Network. Pairing court filings and student records from the Houston Independent School District, where Mackenzie started kindergarten, researchers identified more than 18,000 times between 2002 and 2016 when students lived in homes threatened with eviction filings. They found students facing eviction were absent more often. Even when they didnt have to change schools, students threatened with eviction missed four more days in the following school year than their peers. In all, researchers counted 13,197 children between 2002 and 2016 whose parents faced an eviction filing. A quarter of those children faced repeated evictions. As eviction rates in Houston continue to worsen, there might be more children like Mackenzie. Falling behind on rent and finding a way to finish the school year Neveah Barahona, a 17-year-old big sister to seven siblings, started kindergarten in Houston, but has moved schools half a dozen times. Her mother, Roxanne Abarca, knew moving can be disruptive. So whenever she fell behind on rent and the family was forced to move, she tried to let them finish the school year even if it meant driving them great distances.Neveah, a strong student who hopes to join the military, said the moves took a toll.It is kind of draining, meeting new people, meeting new teachers, getting on track with ... what they want to teach you and what you used to know, Neveah said. Then theres finding her way with new classmates. A spate of bullying this year left her despondent until she got counseling.Households with children are about twice as likely to face eviction than those without children, Eviction Lab research has shown. Thats 1.5 million children getting evicted every year and one in 20 children under 5 living in a rental home. Still, much of the discourse focuses on adults the landlords and grown-up tenants rather than the kids caught in the middle, said Peter Hepburn, the studys lead author. Its worth reminding people that 40% of the people at risk of losing their homes through the eviction process are kids, said Hepburn, a sociology professor at Rutgers University-Newark and associate director at the Eviction Lab.Households often become more vulnerable to eviction because they fall behind when they have children. Only 5% of low-wage earners, who are especially vulnerable to housing instability, have access to paid parental leave.Under a federal law that protects homeless students, districts are supposed to try to keep children in the same school if they lose their housing midyear, providing daily transportation. But children who are evicted dont always qualify for those services. Even those who do often fall through the cracks, because schools dont know why children are leaving or where theyre headed. Evicted families navigate invisible school boundaries In the sprawl of Houston, it can be especially challenging for transient students to stay on track. The metropolis bleeds seamlessly from the city limits to unincorporated parts of Harris County, which is divided into 24 other districts. Its easy to leave Houstons school district without realizing it. And despite the best efforts of parents and caretakers, kids can miss a lot of school in transition.Thats what happened in January, when Mackenzies grandmother, then staying in her sons one-bedroom apartment with her granddaughter, got desperate. Fearful her son would get evicted for having family stay with him, Crystal Holmes who had no home, no car and no cell phone service walked miles to a womens shelter. Crystal Holmes, right, talks with her granddaughter, Mackenzie Holmes, 10, in their room at Mission of Yahweh women's shelter after school on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) Crystal Holmes, right, talks with her granddaughter, Mackenzie Holmes, 10, in their room at Mission of Yahweh women's shelter after school on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Crystal Holmes, right, greets her granddaughter, Mackenzie Holmes, 10, as she arrives at Mission of Yahweh women's shelter after school on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) Crystal Holmes, right, greets her granddaughter, Mackenzie Holmes, 10, as she arrives at Mission of Yahweh women's shelter after school on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More The shelter, where she and Mackenzie now share a room, is in another districts enrollment zone. She worried about Mackenzie being forced to move schools again the fifth grader had already missed the first three weeks of the school year, when her grandmother struggled to get her enrolled. Thankfully, the federal law kicked in, and Mackenzies school, Thornwood Elementary, now sends a car to fetch her and other students from the shelter. Houston Independent School District did not respond to interview requests.Millicent Brown lives in a public housing project in Houston, alongside an elevated highway so noisy she had to buy a louder doorbell. She and her daughter, Nova, 5, were forced to move last year when Novas father threatened to hurt Brown. Nova had attended a charter school. But when she moved, the school said it could only bus Nova from her new home if she waited on a street that Brown said was too dangerous. Instead, Nova missed a month of school before enrolling in a nearby public school. Nova Brown, 5, stands outside her home at a public housing complex before going to school on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) Nova Brown, 5, stands outside her home at a public housing complex before going to school on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Nova Brown, 5, looks through the front door at her mother, Millicent Brown, from outside their home at a public housing complex on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) Nova Brown, 5, looks through the front door at her mother, Millicent Brown, from outside their home at a public housing complex on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Brown grew up bouncing between schools and wants better for Nova. But she may have to move again: The state has plans to widen the highway. It would wipe out her housing project and Novas new school.Nearly three years ago, Neveah and her family settled into a ranch-style home down a country road in Aldine. Its brightly lit, with four bedrooms and a renovated kitchen. Neaveah adopted a neighborhood cat she named Bella. Her sister Aaliyah painted a portrait of the home thats displayed in the living room. When we were little, we always kept moving, Aaliyah said. I dont want to move. I already got comfortable here.Then, last year, her mother once again began to fall behind on rent. Ultimately, Abarca received an eviction notice.The mother was lucky. At the courthouse, she met an employee tasked with helping families stay in their homes. The employee connected her with a nonprofit that agreed to pay six months of her rent while Abarca got back on her feet. And she did, working from home as a call operator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.But the siblings dream of a forever home may still come to an end. Abarca learned this month the homes owner hopes to sell to an investor, displacing them once again.____The Associated Press education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find APs standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org. MORIAH BALINGIT Balingit is an Associated Press national reporter focused on child care, preschool and the early grades. twitter mailto

On Friday, thousands of NFTs that had once sold collectively for millions of dollars vanished from the internet and were replaced with the phrase This content has been restricted. Using Cloudflares basic service in this manner is a violation of the Terms of Service. The pictures eventually returned but their brief loss, as a result of one of the services that served the NFTs being migrated to a free account, is a reminder of the ephemeral nature of digital goods as well as the craze for crypto-backed pictures that dominated the internet for a few years.The pictures were part of a CloneX RTFKT (pronounced artifact) collection, a Nike-backed NFT project done in collaboration with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. They disappeared because the corporate overlord that acquired them was no longer investing the time or capital into the project it once had.At around 5 a.m. EST on the morning of April 24, more than 19,000 NFTs in the CloneX RTFKT (pronounced artifact) collection vanished. In their place was white text on a black background that said: This content has been restricted. Using Cloudflares basic service in this manner is a violation of the Terms of Service.The pictures linked to a URL on Cloudflares site that explained a bit more about what was going on. If you are on a Free, Pro, or Business Plan and your application appears to be serving videos or a disproportionate amount of large files without using the appropriate paid service as described below, Cloudflare may redirect your content or take other actions to protect quality of service, it said.One of the original pitches of NFTs is that they would live forever on the internet. The idea is that they were a digital asset, as good as a real world asset like gold or silver, and could never be destroyed or erased. The flicking out of some 19,000 NFTs and the erasure of tens of millions of dollars in Etherium called that into question.https://x.com/PixOnChain/status/1915352785626845289NFTs are non-fungible tokens, which use the blockchain to prove the ownership of digital assets. In the speculative frenzy that followed, a lot of people got rich minting grotesque pictures and selling them online. The trend peaked around the start of 2022 when Jimmy Fallon and Paris Hilton talked about the then-popular Bored Ape Yacht Club on the Tonight Show.Nike bought RTFKT in 2021 when corporations and investors thought NFTs would be the next big thing. No one knows what Nike paid for the company, but earlier that year Andreeseen Horowitz had valued RTFKT at $33 million and RTFKT used that number to raise $8 million in capital.Three years later, Nike decided to pull the plug and sunset the project. At the time, Samuel Cardillo was RTFKTs CTO and the man in charge of keeping things running. At its height, Cardillo had a team of 12 people helping him run the project. Now its just him. He stayed on as a consultant after Nike said it wouldnt support the project anymore.Hes currently in the process of migrating Nikes NFTs off of a DigitalOcean cloud server and onto AWS. I, personally, wanted to decentralize the assets instead of moving them just to yet another centralized hosting which would be under someone elses will, he said.But Nike gets the final say, even now.He was using Cloudflare as a third-party service to secure inbound and outbound connections from the user to DigitalOcean. The plan was and is to use this as a bridge while he decentralized the pictures on ArWeavea blockchain for data storage.According to Cardillo, the images vanished because Cloudflare moved RTFKT onto a free plan earlier than he expected. The reason we're moving to the free plan is that, RTFKT is sunset, there are no plans to do any drops or anything like that so having a paid plan with Cloudflare makes absolutely no sense anymore, he told 404 Media.https://x.com/cardillosamuel/status/1915331631998500879?s=46Cardillo posted about the issues on RTFKTs Discord and fielded questions on X while he got the pictures back online. I understand the panic, he said. Its my duty to ensure that those people can be reassured, its part of my responsibility being in charge of all of this.Around the same time that the NFTs vanished, some of the people left holding the RTFKT bag filed a lawsuit against Nike. An Australian resident filed the class action lawsuit in Brooklyn, New York federal court. It said that the shoe company ending support for the NFT company led to significant losses for people who had bought them.Cardillo declined to comment on the lawsuit, but said he still believed in the technology underlying NFTs. I hope people see the point of this technology itself and stop using it to fuel the casino that crypto became, he said.

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President Donald Trump waves as he arrives at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Saturday, April 26, 2025, upon returning from a trip to attend the funeral of Pope Francis at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)2025-04-28T18:24:38Z WASHINGTON (AP) The White House on Monday opened a weeklong celebration of Donald Trumps first 100 days in office by focusing on his border crackdown, an area of relative strength for the president at a time when there are red flags for him in the latest round of polling.Yard signs with mugshots of immigrants who have been accused of crimes like rape and murder were posted across the White House lawn, positioned so they would be in the background of television broadcasts outside the West Wing. Tom Homan, Trumps top border adviser, told reporters that there has been unprecedented success on the border effort and were going to keep doing it, full speed ahead. Immigration is Trumps leading issue in public opinion surveys, and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a morning briefing the administration is in the beginning stages of carrying out the largest deportation campaign in American history. About 139,000 people have been removed so far, according to the White House. Deportations have occasionally lagged behind Democrat President Joe Bidens numbers, but Trump officials reject the comparison as not apples to apples because so many fewer people are crossing the border now. Later on Monday, Leavitt held a second briefing exclusively for new media, where Trump-aligned social media influencers asked friendly questions and applauded at the end. Tuesday will be Trumps 100th day in office, and the Republican president plans to mark the day in Michigan, where he will hold a rally in Macomb County, an automotive hub north of Detroit. After relatively little travel so far in his term, Trump will also deliver a commencement address Thursday at the University of Alabama. Trump is also doing a number of interviews timed to the 100-day mark, including an Oval Office interview with ABC News that is to air Tuesday night. Hes also talked with journalists from The Atlantic magazine, a publication that hes frequently attacked for its critical reporting. Trump told The Atlantic that he feels more powerful in his second turn in the White House. His administration is stocked with loyalists, and hes become even more confrontational with a judicial system that at times serves as a check on his agenda. The first time, I had two things to do run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys, he said. And the second time, I run the country and the world.Presidents have marked the initial 100 days of their terms since Franklin Delano Roosevelt moved swiftly to counter the Great Depression after taking office in 1933. Trump wasnt so bullish about the idea during his first term, when he was plagued by setbacks, investigations and turnover in his ranks, at that time calling the 100-day mark " an artificial barrier.But now hes trying to harness the moment to mark the ambitious agenda hes pursued in his first months. Leavitt said Trump had already signed almost as many executive orders as Biden did during his entire term. But many Americans believe Trump has mostly been focused on the wrong priorities. Americans are nearly twice as likely to say Trump has been mostly focusing on the wrong priorities as to say he has been focusing on the right ones, according to an AP-NORC survey, and only about half of Republicans say hes mostly had the right focus. Another one-quarter of Republicans say its been about an even mix of right and wrong priorities, and about 1 in 10 say hes focusing on the wrong things. And among Trumps own supporters, the share of Republicans who say he has been at least a good president has fallen about 10 percentage points since January. Other polls conducted in recent weeks have found similar levels of dissatisfaction with Trumps first few months, particularly with his economic policies and approach to tariffs.Trump lashed out at the results on social media as FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS. As hes pushed to crack down on illegal immigration, Trump has drawn criticism as he has strained the limits of executive power, attacked judges whove ruled against him, sent hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members to a mega-prison in El Salvador in defiance of a court order and balked at a Supreme Court order that his administration must facilitate the return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. His plans to carry out a mass deportation have not yet shaped up, but the White House is ramping up efforts to encourage people who are in the country illegally to self-deport, with actions that include stiffer fines and incentives to leave, including airfare and stipends. His administration has pointed to the steep drop in the number of illegal border crossings as an early and significant sign of success. Trump planned to sign at least two executive orders later Monday related to immigration, including one directing state and federal officials to publish a list of sanctuary city jurisdictions.___Associated Press writer Linley Sanders contributed to this report. MICHELLE L. PRICE Price covers the White House. She previously covered the 2024 presidential campaign and politics, government and other news in New York, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. She is based in Washington. twitter mailto CHRIS MEGERIAN Megerian covers the White House for The Associated Press. 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President Donald Trump waves as he arrives at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Saturday, April 26, 2025, upon returning from a trip to attend the funeral of Pope Francis at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)2025-04-28T18:24:04Z TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) The head of Israels internal security service says he will resign in June over the failure of his agency to warn of Hamas Oct. 7, 2023, attacks defusing an escalating battle with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar announced his resignation Monday night, saying he will formally step down June 15.Netanyahu moved to fire Bar last month over what he said was a crisis of confidence surrounding Hamas attacks. But the step sparked an uproar in Israel because the agency is investigating ties between the Israeli leaders office and Qatar a key mediator between Hamas and Israel over the war in Gaza.

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VATICAN CITYBarely containing his excitement for the selection of the next pope to begin, admittedly catty Cardinal Rubn Salazar Gmez confirmed Monday that he couldnt wait to see who had gotten fat since the last conclave. I know this is super bitchy, but I am basically only excited about the conclave to see who got chunky since last time, said the Colombian prelate, snickering with his friends as they gossiped about which of their colleagues was most likely to have let himself go since the last time the College of Cardinals met to elect a pope, in 2013. Dont get me wrong, Im appreciative of the opportunity to help mold the future of the Catholic Church, but Im 95% only doing this to see whos hot and whos not. Remember that one archbishop from Brazil? He was just so smug about his fitness journey, always commenting on what the rest of us took from the buffetit would be so satisfying if he showed up all bloated in vestments the size of a circus tent. I know, thats terrible of me to say, but come on! Gluttony is a sin. By the way, I wonder if his low-budget hair plugs ever took. At press time, the group of holy men were reportedly heard speculating that Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle had had a total glow-up since last time.The post Catty Cardinal Cant Wait To See Who Got Fat Since Last Conclave appeared first on The Onion.

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WASHINGTONExplaining that such items constituted a veritable uniform for the notorious criminal organization, FBI director Kash Patel claimed Monday that gavels and black gowns were sufficient evidence to tie an individual to the MS-13 gang. For decades, MS-13 thugs have identified themselves by wearing black gowns and carrying around wooden hammers with which they could enact their sick sense of gangland justice, said Patel, who urged U.S. citizens to remain vigilant and immediately report such suspects to authorities so they could be detained and deported. Many of them get recruited out of hotbeds of gang activity like Harvard and Yale law schools. They also take part in a chilling initiation ceremony in which they have to put their hand on a Bible and swear a bizarre oath of allegiance. We arrested one such deviant just last week. Patel added that he would be directing FBI agents to round up an estimated 30,000 such deplorable individuals in the coming months.The post FBI Claims Gavel, Black Gowns Prove Ties To MS-13 Gang appeared first on The Onion.

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Liberal Leader Mark Carney takes a moment after lighting a candle at a memorial for victims after a vehicle drove into a crowd during a Filipino heritage festival in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)2025-04-28T21:58:03Z VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) A suspect has been charged with multiple counts of murder and police continued their investigation Monday after 11 people were killed when an SUV plowed through a crowd at a Filipino heritage festival in Vancouver over the weekend.Witnesses described narrowly jumping out of the way of the speeding vehicle as bodies flew through the air. Dozens of people were injured. Officials said the suspect, a 30-year-old man, had a history of mental health issues. Investigators have ruled out terrorismThere was no early indication of a motive, but police said it wasnt a terrorist attack. The suspect, Kai-Ji Adam Lo, has a significant history of interactions with police and health care professionals related to mental health, said Vancouver Interim Police Chief Steve Rai.Lo, a Vancouver resident, was charged with eight counts of second-degree murder in a video appearance before a judge Sunday. He has not yet entered a plea. The Associated Press could not immediately reach an attorney representing him.Rai said the suspect was arrested after initially being apprehended by bystanders. Video circulating on social media showed a young man in a black hoodie with his back against a chain-link fence, alongside a security guard and surrounded by bystanders screaming and swearing at him. Im sorry, the man said, holding his hand to his head. Investigators were collecting evidence at the scene and had executed a search warrant at a Vancouver property, police said. A beloved teacher, among the victimsKira Salim was among those who died on Saturday. Salim worked as a teacher and counselor at two schools in the New Westminster School District southeast of Vancouver, the district said in a statement. Salim was a valued member of our community whose wisdom and care for our middle and secondary school students had a powerful impact, the district superintendent said.Those killed ranged in age from 5 to 65, officials said. The youngest was 5-year-old girl Katie Le, who died along with her father, Richard Le, and mother, Linh Hoang, according to Richards brother, Toan Le. They were survived by Katies 16-year-old brother, who didnt attend the festival, he said.Thirty-two people were hurt, and 17 were still hospitalized late Sunday, including some in critical and serious condition, the British Columbia Health Ministry said.Last night families lost a sister, a brother, a mother, father, son or a daughter. Those families are living every familys nightmare, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday.The festival celebrated Filipino cultureThe black Audi SUV sped down a closed street Saturday night and struck people attending the Lapu Lapu Day festival, which celebrates Datu Lapu-Lapu, an Indigenous chieftain who stood up to Spanish explorers who came to the Philippines in the 16th century.While attending a vigil for the victims, Vancouver Mayor Kenneth Sim said the Filipino community and the city were heartbroken, were sad, were scared and theres a bit of anger there, too.Vancouver had more than 38,600 residents of Filipino heritage in 2021, representing 5.9% of the citys total population, according to Statistics Canada, the agency that conducts the national census. Witnesses describe leaping out of the wayCarayn Nulada said that she pulled her granddaughter and grandson off the street and used her body to shield them from the SUV. She said her daughter made a narrow escape.The car hit her arm, and she fell down, but she got up, looking for us, because she is scared, said Nulada, who described children screaming and victims lying on the ground or wedged under vehicles. Nuladas brother was run down in the attack and suffered multiple broken bones.Another witness described bodies flying through the air like bowling pins.James Cruzat, a Vancouver business owner, was at the celebration. He heard a car engine rev and then a loud noise, like a loud bang that he initially thought might be a gunshot.We saw people on the road crying. Others were like running, shouting or even screaming, asking for help, Cruzat said.Vincent Reynon, 17, was leaving the festival when he saw police rushing in. People were crying, and he saw scattered bodies. It was like something straight out of a horror movie or a nightmare, he said.

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with a payload of 27 of Amazon's Project Kuiper internet satellites lifts off from Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Monday, April 28, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)2025-04-28T23:02:41Z CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Amazons first batch of internet satellites rocketed into orbit Monday, the latest entry in the mega constellation market currently dominated by SpaceXs thousands of Starlinks.The United Launch Alliances Atlas V rocket carried up 27 of Amazons Project Kuiper satellites, named after the frigid fringes of our solar system beyond Neptune. Once released in orbit, the satellites will eventually reach an altitude of nearly 400 miles (630 kilometers).Two test satellites were launched in 2023, also by an Atlas V. Project officials said major upgrades were made to the newest version. The latest satellites also are coated with a mirror film designed to scatter reflected sunlight in an attempt to accommodate astronomers.Stargazers oppose the fast-growing constellations of low-orbiting satellites, arguing they spoil observations. Others fear more satellite collisions. Founded by Jeff Bezos, who now runs his own rocket company, Blue Origin, Amazon aims to put more than 3,200 of these satellites into orbit to provide fast, affordable broadband service around the globe. Elon Musks SpaceX already has launched more than 8,000 Starlinks since 2019. The company marked its 250th Starlink launch Sunday night. More than 7,000 Starlinks are still in orbit some 300-plus miles (550 kilometers) above Earth.The European-based OneWeb satellite constellation numbers in the hundreds in an even higher orbit. Amazon already has purchased dozens of rocket launches from United Launch Alliance and Blue Origin for Project Kuiper, as well as others.There are some things you can only learn in flight despite extensive testing on the ground, said Rajeev Badyal, the projects vice president. No matter how the mission unfolds, this is just the start of our journey, he said in a statement ahead of the evening liftoff.The first liftoff attempt earlier this month was nixed by bad weather. It took until now to secure another spot in the launch lineup at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

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2025-04-28T23:55:31Z CHATHAM, Ill. (AP) Four people were killed when a car smashed through a building during an after-school program Monday afternoon in a town outside of Springfield, Illinois, police said.Officers responded at about 3:20 p.m. to calls about a vehicle hitting hit three people outside, ramming through the building and then hitting another person before exiting the other side, Chatham Police Department Deputy Chief Scott Tarter said.The driver, who was uninjured, was the sole occupant of the vehicle, and was taken to a hospital for evaluation, Tater said.Chatham is a small town of about 15,000 people just outside Springfield, Illinois.

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The last three staffers in The Associated Press' Saigon bureau, reporters Matt Franjola, left, Peter Arnett, rear, and George Esper, second from right, are joined by two North Vietnamese soldiers and a member of the Viet Cong on the day the government of South Vietnam surrendered, April 30, 1975. One of the soldiers is showing Esper the route of his final advance into the city. (AP Photo/Sarah Errington)2025-04-29T01:04:09Z BANGKOK (AP) Theyd watched overnight as the bombardments grew closer, and observed through binoculars as the last U.S. Marines piled into a helicopter on the roof of the embassy to be whisked away from Saigon.So when the reporters who had stayed behind heard the telltale squeak of the rubber sandals worn by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in the stairs outside The Associated Press office, they werent surprised, and braced themselves for possible detention or arrest. But when the two young soldiers who entered showed no signs of malice, the journalists just kept reporting. Offering the men a Coke and day-old cake, Peter Arnett, George Esper and Matt Franjola started asking about their march into Saigon. As the men detailed their route on a bureau map, photographer Sarah Errington emerged from the darkroom and snapped what would become an iconic picture, published around the world. Fifty years later, Arnett recalled the message he fed into the teletype transmitter to AP headquarters in New York after the improbable scene had played out. In my 13 years of covering the Vietnam War, I never dreamed it would end as it did today, he remembers writing. A total surrender following a few hours later with a cordial meeting in the AP bureau with an armed and battle-garbed North Vietnamese officer with his aide over warm Coke and pastries? That is how the Vietnamese war ended for me today.The message never made it: After a day of carrying alerts and stories on the fall of Saigon and the end of a 20-year war that saw more than 58,000 Americans killed and many times that number of Vietnamese, the wire had been cut. The fall of Saigon ended an eraThe fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 was the end of an era for the AP in Vietnam. Arnett left in May, and then Franjola was expelled, followed by Esper, and the bureau wouldnt be reestablished until 1993. The AP opened its first office in Saigon in 1950 as the fight for independence from France by Viet Minh forces under communist leader Ho Chi Minh intensified.The Viet Minhs decisive victory over the U.S.-supported French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 marked the end of French Indochina and sparked major changes in the region with the partitioning of Vietnam into Communist North Vietnam and U.S.-aligned South Vietnam. The official U.S. military engagement began in 1955 and slowly escalated.Malcolm Browne took over as AP bureau chief in Saigon in November 1961 and was joined in June 1962 by Arnett and photo chief Horst Faas. The trio soon won consecutive Pulitzer Prizes: Browne in 1964, Faas in 1965 and Arnett in 1966 the first of five the AP would receive for its coverage from Vietnam. Four AP photographers were killed covering the war, and at least 16 other AP journalists were injured, some multiple times, as they reported from the front lines, seeking to record the news as completely and accurately as possible.From the start, a lot of the reporting contradicted the official version from Washington, revealing a deeper American commitment than admitted, a lack of measurable success against the Viet Cong guerillas, and a broad dislike of the ineffective and corrupt American-backed South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, Arnett said. That prompted managers in New York to wonder why the Saigon staffers stories were sometimes 180 degrees different from those AP reporters wrote from press conferences at the U.S. State Department, the Pentagon and the White House, he recalled.We had a strategic advantage because we were 12,000 miles away from our administration critics, with our boots on the ground, said Arnett, 90, who lives in California today. Within a year, our reporting was vindicated.At the height of the war there were roughly 30 staffers assigned to the bureau, divided between news, photos and administration, and the AP made regular use of freelancers as well, usually photographers. It was a diverse group that included people from 11 different countries, including many local Vietnamese. During upticks in the fighting, staffers would rotate in from from other bureaus to help. When the U.S. government took umbrage with APs coverage in 1966 and claimed its staffers were young and inexperienced, APs General Manager Wes Gallagher penned a salty reply, noting their combined decades as reporters.Three covered World War II and Korea. Two, Pulitzer Prize winners Peter Arnett and Horst Faas, have been in Vietnam four years each, which is longer than Ambassador (Henry Cabot) Lodge, General (William) Westmoreland and nine-tenths of the Americans over there, Gallagher wrote. In an attempt to manage the news reports out of Vietnam, the U.S. established a daily news conference in Saigon to feed information to the growing American press corps. They came to be colloquially known as the Five Oclock Follies because, as Esper reflected, they were such a joke. Esper said in a 2005 interview that sometimes hed show up to evening briefings the same day he had covered a battle firsthand and was left puzzled by the official version. Im thinking to myself, Is this the same battle I just witnessed? said Esper, who died in 2012. So there was some confrontation at the follies because we would question the briefers reports, and they also withheld tremendous amounts of information.Esper said it helped that Gallagher took a personal hand in Vietnam coverage, frequently calling and visiting in support of his journalists. He took a lot of heat from the Pentagon, from the White House, but he never faltered, Esper said. He always said to us: I support you 100%. You know the press is under scrutiny, just make sure youre accurate, just make sure your stories are fair and balanced, and we did. Reporting from the streets and rooftops In 1969, the American commitment in Vietnam had grown to more than a half million troops, before being drawn down to a handful after the 1973 Paris Peace Accords in which U.S. President Richard Nixon agreed to a withdrawal, leaving the South Vietnamese to fend for themselves.By 1975, the APs bureau had shrunk as well, and as the North Vietnamese Army and its allied Viet Cong guerrilla force in the south pushed toward Saigon, most staff members were evacuated. Arnett, Esper and Franjola volunteered to stay behind, anxious to see through to the end what they had committed so many years of their lives to covering and conspiring to ignore New York if any of their managers got the jitters and ordered them to leave at the last minute. I saw it from the beginning, I wanted to see the end, Esper said. I was a bit apprehensive and frightened, but I knew that if I left, the rest of my life I would have been second guessing myself. On April 30, 1975, the monsoon rains had arrived and Arnett watched in the early morning hours from the slippery roof of the APs building as helicopters evacuated Americans and selected Vietnamese from the embassy four blocks away. After catching a few hours of sleep, he awoke at 6:30 a.m. to the loud voices of looters on the streets. An hour later, from the rooftop of his hotel, he watched through binoculars as a small group of U.S. Marines that had accidentally been left behind clambered aboard a Sea Knight helicopter from the roof of the embassy the last American evacuees. He called it in to Esper in the office, and the story was in newsrooms around the world before the helicopter had cleared the coast. Franjola and Arnett then took to the streets to see what was going on, while Esper manned the desk. When they got to the U.S. Embassy, a mob of people were grinning and laughing as they looted the building a sharp contrast to the desperation of people the day before hoping to be evacuated. On a pile of wet documents and broken furniture on the back lawn, we find the heavy bronze plaque engraved with the names of the five American soldiers who died in the attack on the Embassy in the opening hours of the Tet Offensive in 1968, Arnett recalled in an email detailing the days events. Together we carry it back to the AP office.At 10:24 a.m. Arnett was writing the story of the embassy looting when Esper heard on Saigon Radio that South Vietnam had surrendered and immediately filed an alert. Esper rushes to the teleprinter and messages New York, and soon receives the satisfying news that AP is five minutes ahead of UPI with the surrender story, Arnett said, citing APs biggest rival at the time, United Press International. In war or peace, the wire services place a premium on competition. Esper then dashed outside to try and gather some reaction from South Vietnamese soldiers to the news of the capitulation, and came across a police colonel standing by a statue in a main square. He was waving his arms, fini, fini, you know, its all over, we lost, Esper remembered. And he was also fingering his holstered pistol and I figured, this guy is really crazy, he will kill me, and after 10 years here with barely a scratch, Im going to die on this final day.Suddenly, the colonel did an about-face, saluted the memorial statue, drew his pistol and shot himself in the head. Shaken, Esper ran back to the bureau, up the four flights of stairs to the office and punched out a quick story on the incident, his hands trembling as he typed. Stories flow as Saigon fallsBack on the streets, Franjola, who died in 2015, was nearly sideswiped by a Jeep packed with men brandishing Russian rifles and wearing the black Viet Cong garb. Arnett then saw a convoy of Russian trucks loaded with North Vietnamese soldiers driving down the main street and scrambled back into the office. George, I shout, Saigon has fallen. Call New York, Arnett said. I check my watch. Its 11:43 a.m.Over the next few hours, more soldiers, supported by tanks, pushed into the city, engaging in sporadic fighting while the AP reporters kept filing their copy. It was about 2:30 p.m. when they heard the rubber sandals outside the office, and the two NVA soldiers burst in, one with an AK-47 assault rifle swinging from his shoulder, the other with a Russian pistol holstered on his belt. To their shock, the soldiers were accompanied by Ky Nhan, a freelance photographer who worked for the AP, who proudly announced himself as a longtime member of the Viet Cong. I have guaranteed the safety of the AP office, Arnett recalled the normally reserved photographer saying. You have no reason to be concerned.As Arnett, Esper and Franjola pored over the map with the two NVA soldiers, they chatted through an interpreter about the attack on Saigon, which had been renamed Ho Chi Minh City as soon as it fell. The interview with the two soldiers turned to the personal, and the young men showed the reporters photos of their families and girlfriends, telling them how much they missed them and wanted to get home. I was thinking in my own mind these are North Vietnamese, there are South Vietnamese, Americans were all the same, Esper said. People have girlfriends, they miss them, they have the same fears, the same loneliness, and in my head Im tallying up the casualties, you know nearly 60,000 Americans dead, a million North Vietnamese fighters dead, 224,000 South Vietnamese military killed, and 2 million civilians killed. And thats the way the war ended for me.___Komor, the retired director of AP Corporate Archives, reported from New York. DAVID RISING Rising covers regional Asia-Pacific stories for The Associated Press. He has worked around the world, including covering the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine, and was based for nearly 20 years in Berlin before moving to Bangkok. twitter mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

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