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This illustration made available by NASA in April 2020 depicts Artemis astronauts on the Moon. On Thursday, NASA announced the three companies that will develop, build and fly lunar landers, with the goal of returning astronauts to the moon by 2024.

NASA Names Firms In Competition To Build Next-Gen Lunar Lander

Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Dynetics, a Huntsville, Ala.- based firm, will share $967 million to develop a vehicle to get astronauts to the moon's surface by 2024.

Northeast Ohio School Districts Join Coalition To Sue State Over EdChoice

A growing number of Northeast Ohio school districts have joined a coalition planning to take the state to court over the controversial private school voucher program, EdChoice. The school boards of Cleveland Heights-University Heights, Canton, Crestview Local and Richmond Heights all recently passed resolutions to join the coalition, newly named “Vouchers Hurt Ohio.”

DeWine’s Medicaid Expansion Support Shows Delicate Balance On Issue

The Republican candidate for governor says he’s had a plan to keep Medicaid expansion for all 700,000 Ohioans covered under it. His Democratic opponent…

India launched a ballistic missile defense interceptor last week — and NASA says it created dangerous debris in orbit. "We have identified 400 pieces of orbital debris from that one event," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said.

NASA: Debris From India's Anti-Satellite Test Raised Threat To Space Station

"That is a terrible, terrible thing to create an event that sends debris in an apogee that goes above the International Space Station," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said.

Curious Cbus: What's The History Of Dublin's Concrete Cornfield?

Paris has the Eiffel Tower, St. Louis has the Arch and Dublin, Ohio has the Field of Corn.When you drive through the intersection at Frantz and Rings Road…

A medical worker gives a coronavirus vaccine shot to a patient at a vaccination facility in Beijing, in January. Two pharmaceutical companies in China announced Wednesday they are seeking market approval for new vaccines.

Chinese Pharmaceutical Makers Seek Approval For New Coronavirus Vaccines

If approved, the new vaccine candidates would give China a total of four OK'd for general distribution. Even so, the country's vaccine drive appears to be falling short.

Casey Goodson Jr.'s mother and sister cry during the protest in December.

Family Of Casey Goodson Jr. Says Coroner Confirmed He Was Shot In Back

Since Casey Goodson Jr. died at the hands of Franklin County Sheriff's Deputy Jason Meade in December, Goodson's family has maintained he was shot in the…

Aerial view of the Beckton Sewage Treatment Works in London. Between February and May, U.K. scientists found several samples containing closely related versions of the polio virus in wastewater at the plant.

Polio is found in the U.K. for the first time in nearly 40 years. Here's what it means

Scientists in Britain have detected multiple versions of the virus in wastewater. Officials say the risk to the public is extremely low and urge people to ensure their polio vaccines are up to date.

Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, attends a Senate hearing in Washington last July. She spoke to NPR shortly after the CDC recommended updated booster shots.

There's no bad time to get a new COVID booster if you're eligible, CDC director says

People can get the Moderna booster if they're 18 or older, and the Pfizer-BioNTech version if they're 12 and up. In both cases, they must wait at least two months since their last COVID vaccine.

Gold has long been considered a pretty old school investment: not very profitable and mostly for the maverick investor. But recently, investors all over the world have taken a new shine to gold.

The new global gold rush

After decades of being seen as a go-nowhere investment, investors are taking a shine to gold again.

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