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US-Russian crew lands after 8 months in space

MOSCOW (AP) — A U.S.-Russian space crew landed safely in the steppes of Kazakhstan on Sunday after an eight-month stint on the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Russian crewmates Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev touched down in their Soyuz MS-28 that ...

French wildfire creates monster cloud, fire-making lightning

PARIS — A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground and ignited new fires beyond the original blaze, French officials said. Put another way, that means the inferno was no longer simply being ...

Video shows person kicking California sea lion

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal wildlife authorities are investigating after a video appeared to show a person kicking a protected sea lion at a beach in California. A spokesperson for the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed an ongoing investigation into the incident ...

Between the Columns

Here is what the Upper Michigan Today's All Booked Up book group has been reading. Join Marty for an in-person, in-depth conversation the last Monday of the month at 10:00 in the Dandelion Cottage Room at the Peter White Public Library. Book descriptions in this article are adapted from publishers’ summaries and library catalog records. “Beasts” By Ingvild Bjerkeland with translation by Rosie Hedger (TNFIC BJERKEL) — The world has been overrun by hitherto unknown beasts. Society has collapsed: the power is gone, cars are abandoned across the highways, and anyone left is ...

Despite wrecking ball, memories of old Negaunee school live on

It’s been 40 years ago since the wrecking ball struck down the old Negaunee High School building in half of a full block surrounded by Teal Lake Avenue, Peck Street and Pioneer Avenue. For those who graduated before that time, I’m sure that every class reunion held during Pioneer Week ...

Uganda giraffes get new home to escape oil drilling

MURCHISON FALLS NATIONAL PARK, Uganda — On a cold morning in Uganda's largest national park, rangers chat and sing to lift their spirits ahead of the start of a daunting wildlife project considered critical to conservation: moving the Nubian giraffe to a new home. Rangers at Murchison ...