(Headline USA) The first U.S. lunar lander in more than 50 years rocketed toward the moon Monday, launching private companies on a space race to make deliveries for NASA and other customers.
Astrobotic Technology's lander caught a ride on a brand new rocket, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan. The Vulcan streaked through...
(Headline USA) The Pentagon released new details Sunday about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's continued hospitalization, saying he had a medical procedure Dec. 22, went home a day later and was admitted to intensive care Jan. 1 when he began experiencing severe pain.
The latest information came as members of both parties in Congress...
(Headline USA) A defendant who was captured in courtroom video leaping over a judge's bench and attacking her, touching off a bloody brawl, was scheduled to appear before her again Monday morning.
In his Jan. 3 appearance before Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus, Deobra Redden, who was facing...
(Headline USA) A judge late Saturday said former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can't present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial on a jury's conclusion last year that he didn’t rape a columnist in the mid-1990s.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, an appointee of former...
(Headline USA) The Republican Party of Florida is scheduled to hold a special meeting Monday to vote on removing Chairman Christian Ziegler and select a new leader as police investigate a rape accusation against him.
The meeting is expected to be held behind closed doors at a Tallahassee conference center.
The party suspended...
(Headline USA) The Boeing jetliner that suffered an inflight blowout over Oregon was not being used for flights to Hawaii after a warning light that could have indicated a pressurization problem lit up on three different flights, a federal official said Sunday.
Alaska Airlines flight 1282 took off from Portland at 5:07...
(Anthony Hennen, The Center Square) At a community college in suburban Philadelphia, President Joe Biden confirmed to the public that his extended holiday rest and relaxation had done little to ameliorate the growing concerns about the state of his mental health.
If anything, the unhinged rant about democracy, which rivaled...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A Venezuelan man who illegally entered the U.S. was arrested after wielding a machete and knife in the U.S. Capitol building the day after Christmas. He is being processed for removal.
Jose Leonardo Marquez--Marquez, a 23-year-old Venezuelan national, was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police on Dec....
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The nation's debt has surpassed $34 trillion, according to figures from the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
The nation's growing debt has become a source of concern for some politicians as the cost to service that debt takes up a larger portion of the federal...
(Headline USA) Four years after the last census, almost a dozen small communities in the Midwest are going to be counted again in hopes of getting a new grocery store or more state funding to build roads, fire stations and parks.
Eleven small cities in Illinois and Iowa are the...
(Headline USA) Wisconsin election clerks can accept absentee ballots that contain minor errors such as missing portions of witness addresses, a court ruled Tuesday in a legal fight that has pitted conservatives against liberals in the battleground state.
Dane County Circuit Court ruled in favor of the League of Women...
(Headline USA) The tiny Aliquippa water authority in western Pennsylvania was perhaps the least-suspecting victim of an international cyberattack.
It had never had outside help in protecting its systems from a cyberattack, either at its existing plant that dates to the 1930s or the new $18.5 million one it is...