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Levines left a lengthy family heritage

Leaving his wife and six children behind, Abel Levine’s father Bernard Levine came to America from Poland in the early 1880s. He came to America to escape being drafted into the military service by the Russian army and to seek his fortune and to eventually make a new life for he and his ...

Astronauts’ return to moon delayed by cold on Earth

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has delayed astronauts' upcoming trip to the moon because of near-freezing temperatures expected at the launch site. The first Artemis moonshot with a crew is now targeted for no earlier than Feb. 8, two days later than planned. NASA was all set to conduct a ...

Italy’s Ladins bring own attention for Olympics

MILAN — Italy's Ladin minority settled a millennium ago in the Dolomite mountain hamlet of Anpezo — now the two-time Olympic host city of Cortina d'Ampezzo. But members of this ancient ethnolinguistic group are disappointed that the Winter Games will not spotlight their culture. Instead, ...

Galapagos seabird wanders 3,000 miles to California

LOS ANGELES — Scientists on a research vessel off the central California coast spotted a waved albatross, marking just the second recorded sighting of the bird north of Central America. The yellow-billed bird with black button eyes, which can have an 8-foot wingspan and spends much of its ...