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Enlarge / This image of an Atlas V launch on Tuesday morning has been intentionally blurred. (credit: United Launch Alliance) The emails from United Launch Alliance started popping into the inboxes of photographers a few days after the Fourth of July holiday. Although that day is meant to celebrate freedom and the red glare of rockets, the communication threatened to strip both from some of the company's most ardent devotees. The message from the launch company announced the implementation of a new "annual agreement" between ULA and all people who place remote cameras at Space Launch Complex-41, the company's active launch site at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The City of Denver and the DEMI Fund were trying to do something innovative — take marijuana sales tax revenues and invest them in early-stage companies owned by minority and women entrepreneurs. But the marriage between public mission and private equity proved a rocky one, resulting in a lawsuit in March and now a legal separation. “Creating something new is not easy, and we appreciate the collaboration and creativity of DEMI Fund, Denver Economic Development & Opportunity, and other partners for their efforts,” the city said in a statement announcing an agreement to end a lawsuit between the two sides. Following the George Floyd protests, the administration of Mayor Michael Hancock created a venture capital fund to assist businesses from disadvantaged communities who historically have had a harder time accessing the financing they need to grow. The funding source for the Herman Malone Fund was unprecedented, a 1% sales tax the city was collecting on marijuana sales.

By DAVID KOENIG Boeing named a longtime aerospace industry veteran on Wednesday as its next chief executive, who will take over a company that has been rocked by legal, regulatory and production problems. Robert “Kelly” Ortberg, a former CEO at Boeing supplier Rockwell Collins, will succeed David Calhoun as CEO and president effective Aug.

Enlarge / Audi's next EV is the A6 Sportback e-tron. (credit: Audi) Audi provided flights from Washington to Munich and accommodation so Ars could be briefed about the A6 e-tron as well as the A5 we wrote about several weeks ago, and another model you can read about in the coming weeks.

Enlarge (credit: Peter Zelei Images via Getty Images) Extreme weather is, by definition, rare on our planet. Ferocious storms, searing heatwaves, and biting cold snaps illustrate what the climate is capable of at its worst. However, since Earth’s climate is rapidly warming, predominantly due to fossil fuel burning, the range of possible weather conditions, including extremes, is changing. Scientists define “climate” as the distribution of possible weather events observed over a length of time, such as the range of temperatures, rainfall totals, or hours of sunshine.

WASHINGTON — With the end of their two-year fight against inflation in sight, Federal Reserve officials are likely Wednesday to set the stage for the first cut to their key interest rate in four years, a major shift in policy that could eventually lower borrowing costs for U. S. consumers and businesses. Inflation has been falling steadily closer to the Fed’s 2% target for the past several months.