For nearly three weeks two astronauts have been waiting for their flight on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft for a trip to the International Space Station. NASA has been working with commercial companies on two different crewed spaceflight projects, with the Starliner trip originally slotted for a May 6 flight, but mechanical issues have delayed that mission. Preparations for the test flight have been ongoing for years. In an episode of a NASA podcast recorded in 2018, Tony Castilleja of Boeing called the Starliner a spaceship "for the next generation of human spaceflight." Castilleja said "A typ ..read more

The NFL has awarded the 2026 draft to Pittsburgh with the Steelers ready to tap Pennsylvania's deep football tradition trying to meet the new standard for host cities. League officials announced the decision Wednesday as part of the NFL spring meetings. Owners chose Pittsburgh after reviewing the bid along with the advisory committee. The three-day draft will be held at Point State Park and the Steelers' home at Acrisure Stadium. The NFL set a record with more than 775,000 fans attending the 2024 draft in April in Detroit, and Green Bay will be hosting the 2025 draft at Lambeau Field on April ..read more

The average price to buy a home in California has reached a new historic high with the median price for a dwelling in the state hitting $900,000, the California Association of Realtors said in a recent report. The new record of $904,210 was recorded amid a spike in home sales for April, the group said with existing single-family home sales totaling 275,540 in April. That was up by 3% from 267,470 in March. California Association of Realtors President Melanie Barker said the rebound "in both home sales and price shows the resilience of Californias housing market and is a signal that buyers and ..read more

Unhappy Xcel Energy customers in Boulder, Colorado spoke their mind last month in a virtual hearing put on by the state's utility commission. "Two of my friends and colleagues could have been seriously injured, they could have died during Xcel's unannounced shutdown. I understand there needs to be shutdowns to prevent wildfires, I'm not arguing against that, but these two individuals have disabilities," said Amy Petre Hill of the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition during the meeting. On April 6, the utility shut off power to 55,000 customers during an intense wind storm in hopes of preventing ..read more

*Warning: this story discusses the sensitive topic of a the death of a fetus. Amanda Duffy remembers the day before she was set to give birth. "I sat on the bench and just like reveled in this day where I'm like, 'This is it, this is our last day of a family of three. Tomorrow we're going to be a family of four,'" Duffy told Scripps News. Getting to that day was a relief, after a diagnosis weeks earlier that she says wasn't really explained. "It was called polyhydramnios, but nobody told me that until I brought it up in my appointment because I started noticing that my daughter's movements wer ..read more

A once-rising TikTok star accused of gunning down his estranged wife and her friend took the stand in his own defense, breaking down and admitting to assaulting her on multiple occasions. Ali Abulaban is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Ana Abulaban and Rayburn Barron. The two were killed on Oct. 21, 2021, at the San Diego high-rise apartment Ali and Ana had shared, though Ali had moved into a hotel shortly before the murders. Ali, now 31, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder. His defense team says he was experiencing a mental health crisis ..read more

Stevie Hyder, 15, lives in Richmond, Illinois, a town of about 2,000 people, and prom is always a big end-of-the-year event. Stevie was proud of her dress and how she looked in it in April 2023. However, nearly a year later, her prom picture re-emerged, digitally altered into AI-created nudes. Stevie and her mother Stephanie Essex said that around 30 high school girls from Richmond-Burton Community High School were the subjects of what the principal called "sensitive images" that were created and circulated on a computer. "They were photos taken off of our Instagrams and Snapchats that were tu ..read more

Artificial intelligence is getting more attention these days, but when it comes to science and space exploration, NASA says it's been using AI for years. "When used right, AI accelerates the pace of discovery," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said Wednesday at an agency town hall in Washington, DC. The space agency says AI helps do things faster and better than humans can, analyzing huge amounts of data and images, studying the sun and Earth, even searching for exo-planets in distant galaxies where there might be alien life. "Of the ways we've used AI, one is to track wildfire smoke, so we can ..read more

Analysis of more than four decades of national survey data found that for the first time, in 2022, the amount of daily cannabis users outpaced the amount of people who drink alcohol at the same frequency. Rates of alcohol use still far outpace overall cannabis use, but the research shows high-frequency drinking has become less common, unlike high-frequency cannabis usage. This suggests trends in cannabis usage are shifting in line with changes in cannabis policy, "with declines during periods of greater restriction and growth during periods of policy liberalization," the study's author, Jonath ..read more

The punishment certainly does not fit the crime. Thats why Floridas Secretary of State says as he and federal lawmakers continue working to free several Americans detained in the nearby Turks and Caicos Islands. One of them is a Floridian Orlando grandmother Sharitta Grier. She was arrested last week by TCI authorities who allegedly found two bullets in Griers carry-on bag as she was departing. A surprise to her but a crime in the British territory, punishable by up to 12 years in prison. Im being torn away from my kids, my grandkids, my family," Grier told ABC News. "Im broken. Im not broken ..read more