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SpaceX's mega rocket Starship lifts off in a heavy haze for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, June 6, 2024.

SpaceX’s mega rocket completes its fourth test flight from Texas without exploding

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship lifts off in a heavy haze for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, June 6, 2024.

June 6, 2024, 1:30pm Business

SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket completed its first full test flight Thursday, returning to Earth without exploding after blasting off from Texas. Read story

Boeing&rsquo;s Starliner capsule atop an Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on a mission to the International Space Station, Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Boeing’s astronaut capsule arrives at the space station after thruster trouble

Boeing&rsquo;s Starliner capsule atop an Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on a mission to the International Space Station, Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

June 6, 2024, 1:20pm Business

Boeing’s new capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, delayed by last-minute thruster trouble that almost derailed the docking for this first test flight with astronauts. Read story

NTSB begins considering probable cause in a near-collision between FedEx and Southwest planes

June 6, 2024, 8:34am Business

Investigators said Thursday that an incoming FedEx cargo plane came within less than 200 feet of hitting a Southwest Airlines jet last year in Austin, Texas, after both were cleared to use the same runway. Read story

Supreme Court sides with Native American tribes in health care funding dispute with government

June 6, 2024, 8:33am Business

The Supreme Court sided with Native American tribes Thursday in a dispute with the federal government over the cost of health care when tribes run programs in their own communities. Read story

FILE - Traffic on Interstate 35 passes a Microsoft data center on Sept. 5, 2023, in West Des Moines, Iowa. Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what keeps making them smarter &mdash; the tens of trillions of words that people have written and shared online.

AI ‘gold rush’ for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text

FILE - Traffic on Interstate 35 passes a Microsoft data center on Sept. 5, 2023, in West Des Moines, Iowa. Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what keeps making them smarter &mdash; the tens of trillions of words that people have written and shared online.

June 6, 2024, 8:18am Business

Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what keeps making them smarter — the tens of trillions of words people have written and shared online. Read story

FILE - The YouTube app is seen on an iPad, March 20, 2018, in Baltimore. YouTube announced Wednesday, June 5, 2024, that it is changing its policies about firearm videos in an effort to keep potentially dangerous content from reaching underage users.

YouTube toughens policy on gun videos and youth; critics say proof will be in enforcement

FILE - The YouTube app is seen on an iPad, March 20, 2018, in Baltimore. YouTube announced Wednesday, June 5, 2024, that it is changing its policies about firearm videos in an effort to keep potentially dangerous content from reaching underage users.

June 6, 2024, 8:18am Business

YouTube is changing its policies about firearm videos in an effort to keep potentially dangerous content from reaching underage users. Read story

Christopher R. Kavanaugh, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, speaks at the podium at the Federal Courthouse in Charlottesville during a press conference where the United States Justice Department discusses the plea agreement reached with Envigo RMS, an animal breeder in Cumberland Va., for $35 Million in an animal welfare case on June 3, 2024.

Company that bred beagles for research pleads guilty to neglect, ordered to pay record $35M fine

Christopher R. Kavanaugh, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, speaks at the podium at the Federal Courthouse in Charlottesville during a press conference where the United States Justice Department discusses the plea agreement reached with Envigo RMS, an animal breeder in Cumberland Va., for $35 Million in an animal welfare case on June 3, 2024.

June 6, 2024, 8:16am Business

A company that bred beagles for medical research agreed Monday to pay a record $35 million as part of a criminal plea admitting it neglected thousands of dogs at its breeding facility in rural Virginia. Read story

A hiring sign is displayed at a retail store in Vernon Hills, Ill., Tuesday, May 28, 2024. On Thursday, May 30, 2024, the Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week. (AP Photo/Nam Y.

Slightly more Americans apply for jobless benefits, but layoffs remain at healthy levels

A hiring sign is displayed at a retail store in Vernon Hills, Ill., Tuesday, May 28, 2024. On Thursday, May 30, 2024, the Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week. (AP Photo/Nam Y.

June 6, 2024, 8:12am Business

The number of Americans applying for jobless claims rose last week, but layoffs remain at healthy levels despite lingering inflation and high interest rates. Read story