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ABOVE PHOTO: This is the official crew portrait of the Apollo 11 astronauts. Pictured from left to right are: Neil A. Armstrong, Commander; Michael Collins, Module Pilot; Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, Lunar Module Pilot. (Photo Credit: NASA ) By John Barbour associated press SPACE CENTER, Houston — This story was first published after NASA astronauts Neil…

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ABOVE PHOTO: NASA’s Independent Verification and Validation Facility, originally founded in 1993 to contribute to the safety and success of NASA’s highest-profile missions, was renamed in honor of human computer and storied NASA icon Katherine Johnson. The redesignation was marked with a ceremony on July 2 at the facility, in Fairmont, West Virginia. The renaming…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Jeanette Scissum (Image credit: NASA/MSFC) Jeanette A. Scissum, scientist and mathematician at NASA Marshall Jeanette Scissum joined NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in 1964 after earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from Alabama A&M University. Scissum published a NASA report in 1967, “Survey of Solar Cycle Prediction Models,” which put forward techniques…

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By MARIA CHENG and JAMEY KEATEN GENEVA (AP) — The deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo is now an international health emergency, the World Health Organization announced Wednesday after a case was confirmed in a city of 2 million people . A WHO expert committee declined on three previous occasions to advise the United Nations health…

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NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors won’t bring civil rights charges against a New York City police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The decision not to bring charges against Officer Daniel Pantaleo comes a day before the statute of limitations was set to…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Corrie Davis, left, picks up her son Turner from Big Shanty Elementary School in Kennesaw, Ga. The previous month, the school invited fifth-graders to dress up as characters from the Civil War. Davis says a white student dressed as a plantation owner approached her son and said “You are my slave.” She requested…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Ta-Nehisi Coates By Charlene Crowell TriceEdneyWire.com Nearly 90 years ago, Kelly Miller,  a Black sociologist and mathematician, said, “The Negro is up against the white man’s standard, without the white man’s opportunity.”  As the first Black man to enroll as a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University in 1908, Miller also authored a…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Cameron Boyce (Photo: Shutterstock) associated press LOS ANGELES — Actor Cameron Boyce, known for his roles in the Disney Channel franchise “Descendants” and the Adam Sandler “Grown Ups” movies, has died. He was 20 years old. Boyce, who played Carlos Oscar De Vil in “Descendants,” died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles,…

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday prohibited President Donald Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico. Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. in Oakland acted in two lawsuits filed by California and by activists who contended that…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Actress Loni Anderson receives the Millie Taylor award from Lt. Col. Bob Friend, the oldest living Tuskegee Airman, during the 2nd Annual Heroes Helping Heroes Benefit Concert at The House of Blues on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Paul A. Hebert/Invision/AP) ASSOCIATED PRESS LONG BEACH, Calif. — World War…

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