TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the cosmos,” the country’s space agency said.

In 1431, 19-yearold Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, Normandy, for heresy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court backed a multibillion-dollar oil railroad expansion in Utah Thursday in a ruling that scales back a key environmental law for projects around the country.

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Winlynd Challis, left, and her brother Creede enjoy a ride on the seesaw at the M.T. and Helen Gholston’s Children’s Park at Acme Brick Park.

With a pivotal special election set to be conducted in less than two weeks in regard to the purchase completion of the hospital, the Clinton Hospital Authority met Wednesday at Clinton Regional to discuss only hospital-related matters for a change.

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