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NASA astronaut, 2 cosmonauts return to Earth after eight-month stay International Space Station

Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut closed out a 241-day stay aboard the International Space Station early Sunday with a fiery plunge back to Earth and an on-target touchdown on the broad steppe of Kazakhstan. Strapped into the Soyuz MS-28/74S ferry ship, commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, flight engineer Sergey Mikaev and NASA’s Chris Williams undocked…

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India’s education minister steps down after weeks of protests led by “Cockroach” party

India’s education minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after weeks of protests that demanded his removal over alleged leaks in some of the country’s most competitive entrance exams and irregularities in the education system. The nation’s “Cockroach” movement then called off its weeks of protests, saying the government had accepted all of its demand after…

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Tree of Life rabbi Jeffrey Myers bids farewell 8 years after deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history

After surviving the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history and presiding over multiple funerals for his slain congregants, Rabbi Jeffrey Myers struggled to pray. “There was this emptiness to it,” recalls Myers, of Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh. He turned to the biblical Book of Psalms — its hymns, poetry and prayers covering “the entire…

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Derek Williams, longtime CBS News cameraman, remembered as “the mate you would want in any war zone”

Longtime CBS News cameraman Derek Williams, who spent four decades covering some of Asia’s most pivotal events, from the Vietnam War to the Tiananmen Square massacre, has died. He was 79. Williams died Wednesday, according to his family. He had been living with Parkinson’s disease and was recently diagnosed with cancer.  Susan Zirinsky, former CBS…

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