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Four space tourists return to Earth after a private flight over the poles

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four space tourists who orbited the north and south poles returned to Earth on Friday, splashing down in the Pacific to end their privately funded polar tour. Bitcoin investor Chun Wang chartered a SpaceX flight for himself ...

US has twice as many measles cases so far this year than in all of 2024

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer The U.S. now has more than double the number of measles cases it saw in all of 2024, with Texas reporting another large jump in cases and hospitalizations on Friday. Other states with active outbreaks — defined as three or more cases — include New ...

Think twice before bailing out of the stock market, financial advisers say

By STAN CHOE and CORA LEWIS AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The huge swings rocking Wall Street and the global economy may feel far from normal. But, for investing at least, drops of this size have happened throughout history. Stomaching them is the price investors have had to pay ...

Trump’s tariff push is a race against time, and potential voter backlash

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's expansive new tariffs reverse a decades-long global trend of lower trade barriers and are likely, economists say, to raise prices for Americans by thousands of dollars each year while sharply slowing ...