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LONDON (AP) -- Henry Pryor, who has helped people buy homes in London for more than 30 years, says only war would be a bigger threat to the housing market than the conditions it faces now after Britain's vote to leave the European Union....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Employers shook off two months of weak hiring by adding 287,000 jobs in June, a robust pace that suggests a resilient U.S. economy recovering from a slump early in the year....
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown of Florida and her chief of staff pleaded not guilty Friday to multiple fraud charges and other federal offenses in a grand jury indictment unsealed after an investigation into what prosecutors call a phony charity turned into a personal slush fund....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she doesn't want to think about the possibility of Donald Trump winning the White House, and she predicts the next president - "whoever she will be" - will have a few appointments to make to the Supreme Court....
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- The Latest on the NATO summit (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans signaled they're not done with election-year investigations of Hillary Clinton and whether she lied to Congress, even after a House committee signed off Friday on its report into the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya....
DALLAS (AP) -- Micah Xavier Johnson was known by his family and neighbors as an "Army strong" veteran who served in Afghanistan and loved playground basketball back home in suburban Dallas....
DALLAS (AP) -- A peaceful protest in Dallas over the recent videotaped shootings of black men by police turned violent Thursday night as an unknown number of people shot at officers, killing five and injuring seven, as well as two civilians. Here's what is known about the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement since 9/11:...
DALLAS (AP) -- An Army veteran killed by Dallas police after the sniper slayings of five officers during a protest march told authorities that he was upset about the police shootings of two black men earlier this week and wanted to exterminate whites, "especially white officers," officials said Friday....
(VATICAN RADIO) NASA's spacecraft, Juno, finished a five-year journey to Jupiter on Monday with a do-or-die engine burn to sling itself into orbit. This has set the stage for 20 months of collecting data from the biggest planet in our solar system.Katie Ascough spoke with Jennifer Wiseman, an American astrophysicist, to find out more about this spacecraft, Juno, and it’s mission.Listen: “We’re very excited because Juno will have the capacity to study all kinds of things about Jupiter and its history and that tells us all kinds of things about the solar system as a whole…We understand that Jupiter is huge and might have even become a star if it had a little bit more mass. So as we understand how Jupiter may have formed and what we’re left with in Jupiter, we understand better how the whole solar system formed.”When asked if it is possible that Jupiter could have ever competed with the sun, Dr. Wiseman answered: “That...
(VATICAN RADIO) NASA's spacecraft, Juno, finished a five-year journey to Jupiter on Monday with a do-or-die engine burn to sling itself into orbit. This has set the stage for 20 months of collecting data from the biggest planet in our solar system.
Katie Ascough spoke with Jennifer Wiseman, an American astrophysicist, to find out more about this spacecraft, Juno, and it’s mission.
Listen:
“We’re very excited because Juno will have the capacity to study all kinds of things about Jupiter and its history and that tells us all kinds of things about the solar system as a whole…We understand that Jupiter is huge and might have even become a star if it had a little bit more mass. So as we understand how Jupiter may have formed and what we’re left with in Jupiter, we understand better how the whole solar system formed.”
When asked if it is possible that Jupiter could have ever competed with the sun, Dr. Wiseman answered: “That’s a very interesting idea; this is something that Jupiter will help us understand.”
Concerning the special features of this spacecraft, Juno, Dr. Wiseman pointed out that Juno derives its energy from solar power, a marvellous feat as Jupiter is over five times farther from the sun than earth is. She also described Juno’s “suite of science instruments” which together work “kind of like an orchestra using different instruments to give us different kinds of information”. These, Dr. Wiseman said, “are going to help us understand Jupiter in a way we never have before”.
As to faith, Dr. Wiseman gave her own testimony: “Personally, I think any kind of science exploration gives us a better sense of where we fit in this large scheme of things in the universe…When I gather new information or I learn new things about the universe, it basically gives me a deeper sense of humility and a deeper sense of wonder and awe and appreciation…of all things that are part of this Creation.”
Dr. Wiseman then described the current breakthroughs in astronomy which she, as a Christian, can “attribute to a wonderful and generous God whose creative power working through the physical forces of nature have enabled a bountiful universe”.
