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Starship: Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch first flight of the most powerful rocket ever built
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — Just a few months after NASA introduced the world to the most powerful rocket ever flown to orbit, Elon Musk’s SpaceX is prepared to set off its own creation — which could pack nearly twice the power of anything flown before. SpaceX’s vehicle, called Starship, is currently sitting on a launch pad at the company’s facilities on the southern Texas coastline. The company is targeting liftoff at 8 a.m. CT (9 a.m. ET) on Monday, although it has the ability to take off anytime between 8 a.m. CT…
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Turkey-Syria earthquake: More than 1,300 dead as powerful quake hits region
Istanbul, Turkey CNN — More than 1,300 people have died and rescuers are racing to pull survivors from beneath the rubble after a devastating earthquake ripped through Turkey and Syria, leaving destruction and debris on each side of the border. One of the strongest earthquakes to hit the region in a century shook residents from their beds at around 4 a.m. on Monday morning, sending tremors as far away as Lebanon and Israel. The epicenter of the 7.8-magnitude quake was 23 kilometers (14.2 miles) east of Nurdagi, in Turkey’s Gaziantep province, at a depth of 24.1 kilometers (14.9 miles), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. Video from the scene…
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Matt Schlapp: GOP strategist alleges powerful conservative sexually assaulted him
CNN — A Republican strategist alleges that Matt Schlapp, the influential chairman of the American Conservative Union, groped and fondled his groin as he drove Schlapp again to an Atlanta hotel a number of weeks right before the November midterm election. The strategist, a male in his late thirties who was functioning for the Georgia GOP and Herschel Walker’s Senate marketing campaign at the time, instructed CNN that Schlapp manufactured the undesirable sexual advancements on the journey again from two place bars on Oct 19. Schlapp allegedly invited the strategist, who was assigned to drive Schlapp, to be a part of him in his hotel room. The staffer declined the…
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