TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the cosmos,” the country’s space agency said.
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago.
In 1431, 19-yearold Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, Normandy, for heresy.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court backed a multibillion-dollar oil railroad expansion in Utah Thursday in a ruling that scales back a key environmental law for projects around the country.
With a pivotal special election set to be conducted in less than two weeks in regard to the purchase completion of the hospital, the Clinton Hospital Authority met Wednesday at Clinton Regional to discuss only hospital-related matters for a change.
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s mountaineering community celebrated the conquest of the world’s highest mountain with a rally of climbers, guides and others who gathered for International Everest Day.



