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BISMARCK, N.D. AP 鈥?A federal judge ruled Friday that the Dakota Access oil pipeline may continue operating while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts an extensive environmental review.U.S. District Judge James Boasberg made his decision after attorneys for the pipeline Texas-based owner, Energy Transfer, argued that shuttering the pipeline would be a major econo stanley cup mic blow to several entities, including North Dakota, and the Man stanley cup dan, Hidatsa an stanley cup d Arikara Nation tribe, in the heart of the state oil patch.Boasberg said the Standing Rock Sioux had to demonstrate a likelihood of irreparable injury from the pipeline continued operation for him to rule in their favor.The tribe, he said, has not cleared that daunting hurdle.Attorneys for the Standing Rock Sioux and other tribes say the pipeline is operating illegally without a federal permit granting easement to cross beneath Lake Oahe, a Missouri River reservoir near the Standing Rock reservation that is maintained by the Corps. They said preventing financial loss should not come at the expense of the other tribes, especially when the law has not been followed.The Court acknowledges the Tribes ; plight, as well as their understandable frustration with a political process in which they all too often seem to come up just short. If they are to win their desired relief, however, it must come from that process, as judges may travel only as far as the law ta Ojey Will the Real Author (Bill Wyman) Please Stand Up
VAN HORN, Texas AP 鈥?Jeff Bezos blasted into space Tuesday on his rocket companys first flight with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own spacecraft.Watch the rocket launch in the player a yeezy bove.The Amazon founder was accompanied by a hand-picked group: his brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands and an 82-year-old aviation pioneer from Texas 鈥?the youngest and oldest to ever fly in space. Best day ever! Bezos said when the capsule touched down on the desert floor in remote West Texas after the 10-minute flight.Named after Americas first astronaut, Blue Origins New Shepard rocket soared on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a date chosen by Bezos for its historical adidas samba significance. He held fast to it, even as Virgin Galactics Richard Branson pushed up his own flight from New Mexico in the race for space tourist dollars and beat him to space by nine days.Unlike Bransons piloted rocket plane, Bezos capsule was completely automated and required no official staff on board for the up-and-down flight.Blue Origin reached an altitude of about 66 miles 106 kilometers , more than 10 miles 16 kilometers higher than Bransons July 11 ride. The 60-foot 18-m stanley cup eter booster accelerated to Mach 3 or three times the speed of sound to get the capsule high enough, before separating and landing upright.During their several minutes of weightlessness, video from inside the capsule showed the four floating, doing somersaults, tossi
BISMARCK, N.D. AP 鈥?A federal judge ruled Friday that the Dakota Access oil pipeline may continue operating while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts an extensive environmental review.U.S. District Judge James Boasberg made his decision after attorneys for the pipeline Texas-based owner, Energy Transfer, argued that shuttering the pipeline would be a major econo stanley cup mic blow to several entities, including North Dakota, and the Man stanley cup dan, Hidatsa an stanley cup d Arikara Nation tribe, in the heart of the state oil patch.Boasberg said the Standing Rock Sioux had to demonstrate a likelihood of irreparable injury from the pipeline continued operation for him to rule in their favor.The tribe, he said, has not cleared that daunting hurdle.Attorneys for the Standing Rock Sioux and other tribes say the pipeline is operating illegally without a federal permit granting easement to cross beneath Lake Oahe, a Missouri River reservoir near the Standing Rock reservation that is maintained by the Corps. They said preventing financial loss should not come at the expense of the other tribes, especially when the law has not been followed.The Court acknowledges the Tribes ; plight, as well as their understandable frustration with a political process in which they all too often seem to come up just short. If they are to win their desired relief, however, it must come from that process, as judges may travel only as far as the law ta Ojey Will the Real Author (Bill Wyman) Please Stand Up
VAN HORN, Texas AP 鈥?Jeff Bezos blasted into space Tuesday on his rocket companys first flight with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own spacecraft.Watch the rocket launch in the player a yeezy bove.The Amazon founder was accompanied by a hand-picked group: his brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands and an 82-year-old aviation pioneer from Texas 鈥?the youngest and oldest to ever fly in space. Best day ever! Bezos said when the capsule touched down on the desert floor in remote West Texas after the 10-minute flight.Named after Americas first astronaut, Blue Origins New Shepard rocket soared on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a date chosen by Bezos for its historical adidas samba significance. He held fast to it, even as Virgin Galactics Richard Branson pushed up his own flight from New Mexico in the race for space tourist dollars and beat him to space by nine days.Unlike Bransons piloted rocket plane, Bezos capsule was completely automated and required no official staff on board for the up-and-down flight.Blue Origin reached an altitude of about 66 miles 106 kilometers , more than 10 miles 16 kilometers higher than Bransons July 11 ride. The 60-foot 18-m stanley cup eter booster accelerated to Mach 3 or three times the speed of sound to get the capsule high enough, before separating and landing upright.During their several minutes of weightlessness, video from inside the capsule showed the four floating, doing somersaults, tossi