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Revellers gather in Times Square for the start SantaCon in New York City on Saturday.

Santas gather by the thousands to drink and be merry at SantaCon NYC

The annual SantaCon celebration is back in New York City this Saturday.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a payload including two lunar rovers from Japan and the United Arab Emirates, lifts off from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022.

A Japanese company has fired a rocket carrying a lunar rover to the moon

A Tokyo company aimed for the moon with its own private lander Sunday, blasting off atop a SpaceX rocket with the United Arab Emirates' first lunar rover and a toylike robot from Japan.

A dozen Black men were convicted<strong> </strong>of murder<strong> </strong>by all-white juries in connection with the 1919 massacre in Elaine, Ark. Above, defendants S.A. Jones, Ed Hicks, Frank Hicks, Frank Moore, J.C. Knox, Ed Coleman and Paul Hall with their attorney at the state penitentiary in Little Rock in 1925 after the Supreme Court overturned their convictions.

In 2 U.S. cities haunted by race massacres, facing the past is painful and divisive

Tulsa, Okla., has offered a blueprint, however imperfect, for how to confront a history of racial violence. In neighboring Arkansas, the city of Elaine has found the Tulsa model hard to replicate.

NASA's Orion Capsule splashes down after a successful uncrewed Artemis I Moon Mission on Sunday, seen from aboard the USS Portland in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California, Mexico.

NASA's Artemis I returns from the moon with hopes to get astronauts back there soon

The successful splashdown of the spacecraft with no humans aboard keeps NASA's Artemis mission on track to put the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface by 2025.

U.S. military stop migrants from crossing into El Paso, Texas, seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a temporary order to keep pandemic-era limits on asylum-seekers in place, though it could be brief, as conservative-leaning states push to maintain a measure that allows officials to expel many but not all asylum-seekers.

The U.S. asks court to end asylum limits, with a short delay

Asylum-seekers at the border waited for a Supreme Court ruling that could allow them to enter the United States as the U.S. government asked the Supreme Court not to lift the limits before Christmas.

A freelance producer for ABC News also gathered dirt on critics of a consulting firm's powerful clients.

She was an ABC News producer. She also was a corporate operative

An ABC News freelance producer confronted critics of a consulting firm's powerful clients. Her actions confirm people's worst suspicions about the news media, says a former network news president.

Author Susan Kuklin wrote <em>Beyond Magenta,</em> which is on the American Library Association's lists of most banned books.

Author Susan Kuklin: These teens wanted to let other kids know 'they are not alone'

When Beyond Magenta hit shelves in 2014, little had been written or said publicly about transgender and nonbinary teens. The book received positive reviews. By 2015, it was being challenged.

After the project cavers found Abby, they left a light for her while Gerry Keene went to get help to get the dog out.

A caving project became a rescue mission after a dog was found 500 feet down

What was supposed to be a caving excursion in Missouri turned into a rescue mission after a dog was found curled up and malnourished about 500 feet into the cave system.

Examining the many birth disparities in Mississippi, health center CEO says

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Getty Israel, founder and CEO of Sisters in Birth, about what's driving the high rate of abortion among Black women in conservative states like Mississippi.

British Airways planes parked at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 in London, Wednesday, March 18, 2020.

Several British Airways flights out of the U.S. are delayed due to technical issues

The British airline said U.S.-based flight delays are being caused by a technical issue. Delays on some flights were nearly 24 hours.

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