It is 50 years since the last hurrah of the Apollo program, with a mission that saw the final launch of an Apollo vehicle, and a subsequent docking with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in orbit. The mission was the first and only spaceflight of Deke Slayton, one of the original Mercury 7 group of astronauts, who had been disqualified from …
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At the start of their business day, from the depths of abandoned buildings and secluded alleyways, drug dealers will hand out “testers” — samples from a batch of drugs intended to gauge their potency and act as a marketing ploy. People, some of whom have ended up in Baltimore from places as far-flung as Florida, line up for a chance …
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Blake Marnell was standing in the front row, about 10 yards from Donald Trump, when the shots rang out. He watched the Secret Service pile on the former US president. “I was able to see him standing and I could see the blood on his ear,” Marnell recalls. “When he put his fist up, I remember yelling, ‘Yes! Yes! Yes!’” …
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