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President Trump signed an executive order Friday to begin a process of creating a U.S. Space Academy for the use of the U.S. Space Force, NASA and the civilian spaceflight industry. Mr. Trump announced the new academy at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston during an event awarding the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the four-person crew of Artemis II, which flew around the moon earlier this year, a flight that helps set the stage for a lunar landing in 2028.”It’s called the U.S. Space Academy,” Mr. Trump told a throng of astronauts, engineers and NASA managers. “That’s a…

The FBI previously refused to hire job applicants if they admitted to hiring sex workers or stealing from an employer — or engaging in acts of bestiality.Today, those acts, which are mostly illegal across the country, are no longer automatic deal breakers for applicants to the nation’s top law enforcement agency.In June, the FBI quietly lowered some of the standards it uses when it conducts background checks on would-be federal agents and other personnel. According to multiple sources briefed on the matter, the FBI did so to facilitate hiring in some cases, even if candidates acknowledged they engaged in sexually…

Washington — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing its new requirements for mail voting for the November midterm elections.The order from U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani is the latest development in the legal battle over President Trump’s efforts to tighten the rules for mail voting ahead of the November elections. That fight escalated this week, after the Supreme Court halted a decision in a different case that had blocked the Trump administration from implementing provisions of an executive order that aims to restrict mail voting.On the heels of that ruling from the nation’s…

It’s the rock festival which his father famously headlined in 26 years ago.And today, Oasis singer Liam Gallagher’s youngest son Gene, 25, took to the stage at the Reading music extravaganza with his band Villanelle.Gene, whose mother is Nicole Appleton, looked remarkably similar to his famous dad with his rock chic black hair and sunglasses as he performed his biggest gig yet at the event which has twin festivals which take place in both Reading and Leeds today and across the weekend.Along with his two bandmates, he appeared on the Canopy stage, which is smaller than the main stage were…

When marathoner Jamie Shinneman gears up for his long runs, he’ll scarf down a carb-heavy breakfast, lace up his shoes and leave home with the one thing that most runners don’t have — a teammate.For training runs as long as 20 miles in Noblesville, Indiana, the 53-year-old runs while pushing his wife, Amy Shinneman, in a three-wheeled racing wheelchair they call a “duo bike.” Jamie is the engine. Amy is the compass. As a “Duo Team,” the high school sweethearts have crossed the finish line of four marathons since 2019. It’s an achievement that would mean a lot to any runner,…

A budget hotel has drained an interstate traveller’s bank account of more than $1800 over a shower in his Canberra hotel room.Simon He, 36, was on a road trip from Sydney to Adelaide, hoping to make a fresh start in the southern city after he was attacked on the streets of Newcastle last year.“I was violently bashed … this trip was supposed to be a part of my healing process,” He told 7NEWS.com.au.Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today ArrowHe was exhausted when he stopped for the night in Canberra, and checked into a $75 per night room…

Washington — A federal judge on Thursday pressed lawyers for Ohio Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty and the Justice Department on new efforts by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Board of Trustees to add President Trump’s name back onto the building’s facade.Lawyers for Beatty, who sued last year over Mr. Trump’s changes to the Kennedy Center, argue that the board’s recent efforts to recognize the president violate federal law, and they asked U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper to issue emergency relief blocking the changes.Cooper quickly convened a hearing to consider Beatty’s request but did not issue a…

Kathmandu, Nepal — Rescuers pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters lifted stranded people to safety Friday as Nepal and China raced to respond after catastrophic flash floods killed more than 470 people and left more than 1,500 missing.Nepal authorities said the death toll there rose to 469, injured people were taken to hospitals and helicopters carried more than 3,000 people to safety. Survivors, including the injured, were brought to Kathmandu and other locations.In contrast, on the Chinese side, there was little information on survivors, although the death toll rose to five Friday as state media showed evacuations…

A millionaire family-of-four from Surrey including a former Mrs India UK are among the missing Britons in Nepal following a devastating flash flood this week. Days on from the initial disaster, rescuers are still working through mud and debris left behind by the flood along the Himalayan border between Nepal and China-controlled Tibet.Police in Nepal said on Friday morning that the country’s death toll had risen to 469 from 390 a day earlier. China had not updated its report of three deaths in Tibet. Together, the two countries have said more than 1,500 people are missing. Among the missing are ex-banker and beauty…

Stavanger, Norway — King Harald V of Norway, who went into exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of his homeland and refused a string of European noblewomen to marry his school sweetheart, died Friday. He was 89. The palace said he died at the National Hospital in Oslo at 6:35 a.m. Harald was Europe’s oldest monarch. The popular king modernized the royal house but refused to follow in the footsteps of other aging monarchs who have abdicated in recent times. His son automatically became King Haakon VIII. Like other royal houses in Europe, the…