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Video attached to article This illustration made available by Johns Hopkins APL and NASA depicts NASA’s DART probe, foreground right, and Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube, bottom right, at the Didymos system before impact with the asteroid Dimorphos, left.

Watch: NASA spacecraft closes in on asteroid for head-on collision

A NASA spacecraft is closing in on an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth. The galactic grand slam is set to occur at 6:14 p.m. Central at a harmless asteroid 7 million miles away, with the spacecraft named Dart plowing into the rock at 14,000 mph.
Amanda Rouser poses for a photo in front of a recruiting desk for new poll workers at Atlanta City Hall on Sept. 14, 2022, in Atlanta. Rouser was motivated to serve as a poll worker for the first time during the upcoming midterm election by false allegations of fraud against a Georgia poll worker after the 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo/Sudhin Thanawala)

False claims, threats fuel poll worker sign-ups for midterms

False claims about the 2020 presidential election by former President Donald Trump and his allies are spurring new interest in working the polls in Georgia and elsewhere for the upcoming midterm elections, but for different reasons
Waves kick up under a dark sky along the shore of Batabano, Cuba, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. Hurricane Ian was growing stronger as it approached the western tip of Cuba on a track to hit the west coast of Florida as a major hurricane as early as Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Hurricane Ian nears Cuba on path to strike Florida as Cat 4

Hurricane Ian is nearing Cuba on a track to strike Florida as a Category 4 as early as Wednesday
Angelo Bernard, who lives near the Denka Performance Elastomer Plant, poses with his grandchildren who are visiting him for the weekend, at his home in Reserve, La., Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. From left are Korinne Bernard, 11, Karmen Bernard, 9, and Anthony Bernard, 10, who used to attend Fifth Ward Elementary until Hurricane Ida forced them to move. "I feel for the kids that have to go to school that close to the plant," Angelo Bernard said. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Civil rights law targets 'cancer alley' discrimination

The Biden administration is using Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to investigate environmental discrimination by state agencies and others that receive federal funds
FILE - People line up to vote in a referendum in Luhansk, Luhansk People's Republic controlled by Russia-backed separatists, eastern Ukraine, Sept. 24, 2022. Voting began Friday in four Moscow-held regions of Ukraine on referendums to become part of Russia. (AP Photo/File)
Ukrainians scared by Russia's preordained referendums
After seven weary months of war, many Ukrainians fear more suffering and political repression awaits them
People walk past a currency exchange bureau in London, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. The pound today slumped to its lowest level against the dollar since 1971, after the Chancellor hinted more tax cuts would follow those he announced last week. The pound dipped as low as $1.0349 per U.S. dollar early Monday but then rebounded to $1.0671, down 2.3%. (AP Photo/David Cliff)
The British pound has taken a tumble. What's the impact?
The British currency has taken a plunge, sliding against the U.S. dollar to touch an all-time low
FILE - Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, on June 25, 2017. Rhodes formally launched the Oath Keepers in Lexington, Massachusetts, on April 19, 2009, where the first shot in the American Revolution was fired. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes' path: From Yale to jail
Oath Keepers militia group founder Stewart Rhodes was once a promising Yale Law School graduate
This screen shot from a Zoom video hearing shows Michael Carneal on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022 at Kentucky State Reformatory in La Grange, Ky. Carneal killed three students and wounded five more in a school shooting 25 years ago. He told a parole panel on Tuesday that he is still hearing voices like the ones that told him to steal a pistol and shoot into a crowded high school lobby in 1997. (Kentucky Parole Board via AP)
Kentucky man who shot classmates in '97 imprisoned for life
A Kentucky man who killed three fellow students and wounded five others when he was 14 years old will spend the rest of his life in prison without another opportunity to seek parole
Today in History: September 26, first presidential debate
Today in History Today is Monday, Sept. 26, the 269th day of 2022. There are 96 days left in the year.
Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 bus driver Marietta Schild helped save a man’s life last week in between her morning and afternoon routes.
'Just stepping up to the plate': District 211 bus driver helps save man in drive-through lane
A veteran school bus driver who'd just finished her morning shift for Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 helped resuscitate a man suffering a medical emergency Wednesday in a McDonald's drive-through lane in Hoffman Estates.
FILE - Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. poses for a portrait outside of his home on Dec. 5, 2018, in Bladenboro, N.C. Four people pled guilty Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, to misdemeanors for their roles in absentee ballot fraud in rural North Carolina during the 2016 and 2018 elections. The defendants were associated with Dowless, a political operative in Bladen County whom authorities called the ringleader of the ballot scheme. Dowless died earlier in 2022 before his case went to trial. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP, File)
Plea agreements reached by 4 in NC Congress ballot probe
Four people have pleaded guilty to misdemeanors for their roles in absentee ballot fraud in rural North Carolina during the 2016 and 2018 elections
Officers set up crime tape outside a Chicago Police Department building in Homan Square, in Chicago, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, where a person was shot by police. Chicago's police chief says a man used a fire escape  to infiltrate a police facility where officers were undergoing a SWAT training exercise and grabbed at least two guns before he was shot and wounded by police. (Anthony Vazquez/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Chief: Man shot by Chicago police infiltrated SWAT training
Chicago's police chief says a man used a fire escape  to infiltrate a  police facility where officers were undergoing a SWAT training exercise and grabbed at least two guns before he was shot and wounded by police
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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