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A rendering showing ELSA-d's concept of operations. The mission aims to demonstrate technology that could help clear space debris.

New Effort To Clean Up Space Junk Reaches Orbit

Known as ELSA-d, the mission will exhibit technology that could help capture space junk, some of the millions of pieces of orbital debris that float above Earth.

At 'Stop Asian Hate' Rally, Demonstrators Say 'We Cannot Be Silent Anymore'

Hundreds stood in solidarity with people of Asian descent during the Stop Asian Hate gathering at the Freedome Center in downtown Cincinnati Sunday. There…

Results from late-stage testing show the Oxford- AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine can be 79% effective at preventing symptoms of COVID-19.

AstraZeneca Vaccine Can Prevent COVID-19, Late-Stage Study Says

Results of the trial, which involved more than 32,000 volunteers, showed two doses of the vaccine administered four weeks apart had an efficacy of 79% at preventing symptoms of COVID-19.

Voters enter a polling station at the Zion Baptist Church on Jan. 5 in Marietta, Ga. Black churches have often played a role in mobilizing their congregants to vote.

Black Church Leaders In Georgia On The Importance Of 'Souls To The Polls'

Bishop Reginald T. Jackson and Supervisor Christy Jackson say church-led voting goes back to the Jim Crow era.

U.S.-China Talks In Alaska Get Off To A Testy Start

Officials are meeting in Anchorage for the first Cabinet-level talks between the two countries since President Biden took office. Secretary of State Blinken laid out concerns with Chinese policy.

It's impossible to know how often college students are getting vaccinated. Rumors of it happening illegitimately are widespread, but many situations aren't so duplicitous upon closer examination, because the vaccinated students are actually eligible, because they work in labs or health care settings, or have underlying health issues that make them high risk for severe COVID-19.

Grounded For Spring Break, College Students Talk About Who Got The Shot, And How

For the second year, undergraduates in New York City are mostly sticking to campus. But there is plenty of gossip about classmates exploiting loopholes to get vaccinated in order to travel or party.

Some of the 220 Chinese vessels are seen moored in early March at the Whitsun Reef in the South China Sea.

Philippines Calls On China To Remove Massive Fishing Fleet At Disputed Reef

Manila says 220 fishing vessels believed to be manned by China's maritime militia were observed anchored side by side at the disputed Whitsun Reef earlier this month.

Analysis: City Council Slate Makes Charter Relevant Again

It took a public corruption of major proportions to bring Cincinnati's Charter Committee out of its decades-long slumber.But Charter is back in a big way,…

The U.S. Supreme Court will review a lower court's decision from last summer that vacated the six death sentences imposed on Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Here, artist Jane Flavell Collins pulls down her courtroom sketches outside the Moakley U.S. Courthouse in Boston after Tsarnaev was sentenced.

Supreme Court To Hear Appeal Of Boston Marathon Bomber's Vacated Death Sentences

An appeals court ruled last summer that the original trial judge did not secure an impartial jury for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The U.S. has asked the Supreme Court to review the decision.

OKI Wanna Know... East-West Roads In Northern Kentucky

Our feature OKI Wanna Know is a chance for you to ask the offbeat questions that don't usually merit headlines. Many questions so far have been about…

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