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Jeff Bezos blasts into space on own rocket: 'Best day ever!'

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer
    VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — Jeff Bezos blasted into space Tuesday on his rocket company's first flight with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own spacecraft.

50-year war on drugs imprisoned millions of Black Americans

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press
    Landscaping was hardly his lifelong dream.

Biden's 3rd trip to reddish Ohio pushes his economic agenda

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press
    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden just can't quit Ohio — even if it rejected him in last year's election.

China blasts dam to divert floods that killed at least 25

    BEIJING (AP) — China's military has blasted a dam to release floodwaters threatening one of its most heavily populated provinces, as the death toll in widespread flooding rose to at least 25.

War's trauma apparent in portraits of Gazan children

By AYA BATRAWY and FELIPE DANA Associated Press
SUZY ISKHONTANA, 7
    Suzy Ishkontana clings to her new toys and clothes, but mostly to her dad.
    For hours, they were separated under the rubble of their family's home. Now she cannot bear to be apart.

Let the fashion policing begin on opening day of Tokyo Games

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Let the fashion policing begin.
    The Olympics in Tokyo open July 23, when the world's athletes will march behind their flag-bearers. And when they do, the peanut gallery on what they're wearing will be open, too.

'Fellas, it's a changing world' —Commissioners approve controversial solar ordinance

    The Adams County Commissioners faced a packed meeting room Tuesday, with concerned citizens from Hartford Township taking up every seat.

Judge: Indiana University can require COVID-19 vaccinations

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana University can require its roughly 90,000 students and 40,000 employees to get vaccinated for COVID-19 under a federal judge's ruling that might be the first of its kind regarding college immunization mandates.

Multiple people shot in series of attacks in Tucson, Arizona

    TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A series of attacks Sunday afternoon in Arizona have ended with five people shot, including one fatality, and two or three children missing, Tucson police said. The suspect in the attacks was critically wounded by an officer.

American father, son get Japan prison terms for Ghosn escape

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer
    TOKYO (AP) — A Tokyo court handed down prison terms for the American father and son accused of helping Nissan's former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, escape to Lebanon while awaiting trial in Japan.