Month July 2023

Weather permitting, NASA will launch the Antares rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility Aug. 1 at 8:31 p.m. ET and it could be visible to millions.       

Here’s the latest for Monday, July 31: State of emergency extended in Myanmar; Soviet-era emblem being removed in Kyiv; Kosovo journalists protest government move; Tech entrepreneurs show ways to beat the heat at Japan convention       

Family and friends pay tribute to late singer Coco Lee at her memorial in Hong Kong. (July 31)       

A Georgia resident has died after contracting Naegleria fowleri, otherwise known as a “brain-eating amoeba.”       

NASA is unable to communicate with its historic Voyager 2 probe. The agency is hopeful communications will be restored in October.       

Police confirm that the boy, 11, died after being struck by another dirt bike rider after completing a jump.       

Lori Vallow Daybell was found guilty in May for the murders of her two youngest children and her husband’s former wife.       

Work is underway to remove a Soviet-era emblem from Kyiv’s Motherland monument. A piece of the emblem has already been taken off by workers in the Ukrainian capital. (July 31)       

Chad’s military leader and transitional president arrived in Niger for mediation talks with the leaders of a coup who have declared their leader the new head of state and detained the country’s elected president. (July 31)       

Jeffrey Vanden Boom, 39, of Wisconsin, died after falling from a hotel room balcony, the Orange County Medical Examiner determined.