May 3 (UPI) -- SpaceX launched another group of 23 satellites from Kennedy Space Center on Thursday night via a Falcon 9 rocket, adding to the Starlink megacluster of Internet satellites now in low Earth orbit.

May 2 (UPI) -- Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed legislation Thursday that repeals an abortion ban in the state that dates to 1864, perhaps the most restrictive and oldest in the country, but the measure still could take effect briefly.

May 2 (UPI) -- A key participant in the January 6, 2021 riots on the U.S. capitol, who assaulted police with pepper spray and attempted to incite more violence, has been sentenced to as many as five years in prison and fined $200,000.

May 2 (UPI) -- A judge on Thursday sentenced a Georgia man to more than four years in prison for assaulting Capitol police on Jan. 6.

May 2 (UPI) -- The captain of a scuba diving boat has been sentenced to four years in prison for criminal negligence nearly five years after 34 people died in a fire aboard his vessel, the Conception, off the California coast.

WASHINGTON, May 2 (UPI) -- Senators met Thursday to find solutions to the growing healthcare crisis and the acute shortage of minority healthcare workers as the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions delved into the issue.

May 2 (UPI) -- A bipartisan group of women senators on Thursday introduced legislation to boost federal menopause research and expand training and awareness.

Heavy rain on Thursday has caused severe flooding in southeastern Texas cities from College Station to Houston. At 1 p.m. CDT, seven flood warnings were in effect north and east of Houston.

May 2 (UPI) -- Turkey Thursday suspended trade with Israel as Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Turkish ports have blocked Israeli imports and exports.

May 2 (UPI) -- President Joe Biden on Thursday signed two proclamations expanding California's San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument.