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Chinese Start-Up Lands Reusable Rocket for the First Time

The milestone by the private company, LandSpace, could put China closer to challenging SpaceX’s rule in lower-cost spaceflight.

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Penn State Fraternity Members Are Charged in Cocaine Trafficking Case

More than a dozen current and former students from two fraternities were part of an operation that involved packaging drugs at fraternity houses, the authorities said.

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Administrators at Pennsylvania State University said that they are investigating the current and former students who were charged in trafficking cocaine.
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Ex-Officer Held in New Orleans Mass Shooting Plot Is Freed Without Charges

Law enforcement officials had said that Christopher Gillum, a former police officer in North Carolina, planned to attack a large festival. He was released without charges.

© Sophia Germer/The Times-Picayune, via The New Orleans Advocate, via Associated Press

A crowd at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans in May. A former North Carolina police officer was arrested and accused of targeting the festival.
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Mike Fincke, NASA Astronaut Whose Health Scare Led to I.S.S. Evacuation, Has Retired

Mike Fincke spent 459 days in space across four missions, the fourth most time of any NASA astronaut.

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The NASA astronaut Michael Fincke last month at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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