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40 years later, a new look at lessons from the Challenger disasterJan 28, 2026 3:46 pm - As high school teacher Christa McAuliffe prepared to be strapped into the space shuttle Challenger, Brian Russell, an official at the company that built the craft’s solid rocket boosters, had just participated in a fateful teleconference from his Utah headquarters.Like every other engineer in the conference room at Morton Thiokol on that day four decades ago, the 31-year-old Russell opposed launching because the bitterly cold temperature at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center threatened the O-rings that sealed the rocket boosters.
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Trump signals interest in easing tensions, but Minneapolis sees little change on the streetsJan 28, 2026 2:33 pm - President Donald Trump seemed to signal a willingness to ease tensions in Minneapolis after a second deadly shooting by federal immigration agents, but there was little evidence Wednesday of any significant changes following weeks of harsh rhetoric and clashes with protesters.
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FBI executes search warrant at Fulton County elections office near AtlantaJan 28, 2026 12:37 pm - FBI agents were executing a search warrant at the Fulton County elections office near Atlanta on Wednesday, an agency spokesperson confirmed.
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Study shows downtown St. Charles ‘healthy’ business occupancy ratesJan 28, 2026 10:31 am - The city of St. Charles said 2025 represented a year of healthy occupancy rates among the storefronts and businesses in the downtown area. The city is focusing on 11 vacant storefronts going into this year.
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How Americans are using AI at work, according to a new Gallup pollJan 28, 2026 10:21 am - American workers adopted artificial intelligence into their work lives at a remarkable pace over the past few years, according to a new poll.
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Eating snow cones or snow cream can be a winter delight, if done safelyJan 28, 2026 9:55 am - Experts say eating a bit of snow is probably fine if you live someplace with generally clean air, but staying away from plowed snow is a sensible precaution. It might contain deicing chemicals, debris and other contaminants.
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A new report warns that combined war casualties in Russia's war on Ukraine could soon hit 2 millionJan 28, 2026 9:10 am - A new report warns that the number of soldiers killed, injured or missing on both sides of Russia's war on Ukraine could hit 2 million by the spring, with Russia suffering the largest number of troop deaths recorded for any major power in any conflict since World War II.
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Man sprays unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar and is tackled at Minneapolis town hallJan 28, 2026 7:34 am - A man sprayed an unknown substance on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and was tackled to the ground Tuesday during a town hall she was hosting in Minneapolis, where tensions over federal immigration enforcement have come to a head after agents fatally shot an intensive care nurse and a mother of three this month.
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Federal Reserve keeps interest rates unchanged even as Trump continues to insist they be loweredJan 28, 2026 7:28 am - WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve pushed the pause button on its interest rate cuts Wednesday, leaving its key rate unchanged at about 3.6% after lowering it three times l...
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Amazon cuts about 16,000 corporate jobs in the latest round of layoffsJan 28, 2026 7:25 am - Amazon is slashing about 16,000 corporate jobs in the second round of mass layoffs for the ecommerce company in three months.