A retired NASA satellite is expected to fall to Earth on Sunday after spending nearly 40 years in space, space officials said Friday. One person was shot at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va., on Friday. Marcio Freire, the Brazilian surfer who was one of three featured in the documentary "Mad Dogs" for conquering the heaviest wave in the world in Hawaii, died in Portugal on Thursday. He was 47. McDonald's is planning on cutting jobs while it also accelerates its restaurant expansion, CEO Chris Kempczinski told employees Friday. Mercedes-Benz announced a recall on Friday of 324,000 vehicles due to a water-infusion defect that could cause the cars to stall out. President Joe Biden on Friday handed out the first Presidential Citizens Medals of his term during a special White House ceremony to commemorate the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. A day after agreeing with Germany to send armored fighting vehicles to Ukraine, the Department of Defense released details Friday of its latest military aid package to that embattled country, valued at over $3 billion. NASA is preparing for the return of multiple science experiments from the International Space Station in the hopes they might further aid mankind's future exploration of space. U.S. stock markets surged Friday after economic reports showed better-than-expected job growth and a cooling economy. A visitor to Florida's Everglades National Park recorded video when she came across a 15-foot Burmese python slithering across a road. A deer fell through the ice of a frozen river in Wisconsin and was rescued by a crew of firefighters. COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to steadily rise across the United States, the Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 is "spreading quickly" and at least 22 million people have gotten the flu, U.S. health officials said Friday. Three men have been charged with conspiring to defraud the federal government out of more than $107 million after submitting fraudulent genetic testing claims to Medicare. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is reviewing a police shooting in which a Grammy Award-winning sound engineer was killed. Police say the man was holding his wife and stepdaughter at gunpoint. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved an Alzheimer's drug, lecanemab, to be sold under the brand name Leqembi, which has modestly slowed cognitive decline in some people in the early stages of the disease. Firefighters in Florida came to the rescue of a stray kitten that was seen wandering in a road and ended up fleeing into the engine compartment of a parked car. A North Carolina woman collected a $2 million prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket just two months after winning $1 million from another game. Connecticut has temporarily suspended the law license of Norm Pattis, an attorney who represents right-wing talk-show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. CBS series "Fire Country" has been renewed for a second season. A Florida family found a message in a bottle washed up on a beach and tracked down the man who threw it into the ocean 37 years earlier. Firefighters in Florida came to the rescue of a hawk that swooped into an elementary school and became stuck in a window alcove. Season 2 of the Amazon show "Harlem" will premiere on Feb. 3 on Prime Video and they've just released new art and a trailer. A federal judge panel ruled Friday that South Carolina's District 1 congressional seat was gerrymandered to exclude African Americans living there and must be redrawn by the end of March. Police in Saskatchewan, Canada, are reminding residents not to abuse the 911 emergency line by revealing some of the most unusual calls of 2022, including calls about clogged drains and unwanted voicemails. |
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