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Special Desk Daughter of the first US astronaut, Alan Shepard, blasted into space 60-years after her father did it. Laura Shepard Churchley, 74, was in school when her father Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman, in 1961, he became the second person and …

Special Desk Temperatures have soared to record level in several areas as wildfires rage in the west of the United States. The region is hit by a heatwave too and people have been told to leave places identified as risky. Firefighters continue to battle the blazes in the extreme conditions …

Jubilee News Desk A critical care staff nurse in New York became the first person in the United States to receive the coronavirus vaccine, as the country begins mass vaccination. Sandra Lindsay, working at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, received the Pfizer-BioNTech shot which was shown live on television …