The Latest: Jeff Sessions announces 2020 run for Senate seat

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on former Attorney General Jeff Sessions running for U.S. Senate (all times local): 8:19 p.m. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions will attempt to win back his old U.S. Senate seat in Alabama after a tumultuous time in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet. The Republican announced his 2020 run Thursday on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” The…

NASA opens untouched Apollo moon rock sample

In December 1972, astronauts on the Apollo 17 lunar mission returned to Earth with samples of rock and soil from the moon. On Tuesday, NASA scientists opened a sample that had been sealed and untouched for more than 40 years. The pristine sample of rock and regolith was opened on Tuesday at the Johnson Space Center in Houston as part of…

NASA’s new lunar rover will search for water on the moon

NASA wants to explore the moon’s mysterious South Pole, and it’s sending a new rover to do it. The VIPER will land in 2022 in search of water on the lunar surface. The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover — or VIPER — will take samples of moon soil, looking for evidence of water-ice, NASA announced Friday. Starting in December 2022,…

20 new moons were discovered around Saturn

Twenty new moons have been found to be orbiting Saturn — and scientists want the public’s help in naming them, according to a Carnegie Institution for Science news release. The new discovery brings the total moons around the “jewel of our solar system” to 82. The new moons are each about 3 miles in diameter and 17 orbit Saturn backwards, or in…

2 Americans among winners of 2019 Nobel Prize for medicine

Two Americans and a British scientist have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for discovering how the body’s cells sense and react to oxygen levels, work that has paved the way for new strategies to fight anemia, cancer and other diseases, the Nobel Committee said. Doctors William G. Kaelin Jr. of Harvard University, Gregg L. Semenza…

The Rock to return to WWE’s “Friday Night Smackdown”

“The Rock” posts heartfelt message about his dad WWE’s “Friday Night Smackdown” is going to rock this week. Professional wrestler turned movie star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson announced he will be returning to his roots and appear on Friday’s Fox premiere of the hit program. “FINALLY…I come back home to my @WWE universe,” the people’s champion wrote on Twitter Monday….

Elon Musk shows off next-generation “Starship” prototype

Starship Update by SpaceX on YouTube SpaceX founder Elon Musk showed off a towering prototype of his next-generation stainless steel “Starship” Saturday, telling a throng of reporters, cheering supporters and company workers the gleaming rocketships could begin piloted orbital test flights within the next year. “With any development into uncharted territory, its difficult to predict these things with precision,” the…

Man admits shooting transgender woman

Police in Dallas have arrested a man they say admitted to shouting slurs at a transgender woman before following her to a bus stop and opening fire, seriously wounding her. The suspect was identified as  29-year-old Domingo Ramirez-Cavente. Police have said they are investigating the Friday night incident as a hate crime. The shooting comes amid community concern over a series…

Ad showing Ocasio-Cortez’s face in flames airs during debate

A dramatic ad targeting Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aired during the third Democratic debate on Thursday, comparing Ocasio-Cortez’s support for democratic socialism to the brutal Khmer Rouge communist regime in Cambodia. The ad shows a picture of the young congresswoman bursting into flame to reveal a picture of a pile of skulls. The narrator of the ad, onetime Republican congressional…

Apple to reveal updated iPhones, watches and Apple TV

Apple on Tuesday holds its annual product reveal event, where it’s expected to unveil a next-generation iPhone, a new watch and a look at its hotly anticipated video-streaming device, Apple TV. As per usual, the Apple store is down before and during the event and Twitter is already abuzz with expectation. The company’s newest iPhone models are expected to be…

Tom Brady’s application for “Tom Terrific” trademark denied

Tom Brady just suffered a rare loss — his trademark application has been denied by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The New England Patriots quarterback tried to trademark “Tom Terrific” earlier this summer. The office refused the request made by the six-time Super Bowl champion Thursday because of the phrase’s association with another famous athlete: “The applied-for mark consists…

Coming soon to Netflix: Movie trailers crafted by AI

Netflix is investing in technology to automate movie and television trailers, an executive said on a July earnings call. The technology could help Netflix lower the cost of creating trailers while adding personalization for its subscribers. In 2016, IBM’s Watson made a promo spot for the 2016 thriller “Morgan” by categorizing emotional moments in the film, although a human editor…

3D images show long-lost WWII submarine USS Grunion

Nearly 80 years ago, the USS Grunion submarine sank on its inaugural mission during World War II, taking the lives of 70 sailors with it as it plunged to the bottom of the Pacific. Now, after years of searching, a team looking for WWII-era submarines has found the Grunion’s bow about 2,700 feet (820 meters) under the water’s surface, off…

City playing “Baby Shark” to drive out homeless

Officials in West Palm Beach have a new way to keep homeless people from laying around the city’s Lake Pavilion: “Baby Shark.” The extremely popular — and extremely repetitive — children’s song can be heard playing on loop all night long around the pavilion, The Palm Beach Post reports. In addition to “Baby Shark,” the city is also playing another…