China has been steadily intensifying military pressure on Taiwan over the past year, sending jets, drones, bombers and other planes farther and in greater numbers to extend an intimidating presence…
Donald J. Trump’s legal problems aren’t just piling up — his legal bills are, too. New financial reports show that the former president’s various political committees and the super PAC…
After a freight train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, in February, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg secured what seemed like a significant victory. Following years of resistance, the…
With a single, standardized ballot — cast in private without the assistance of a friend or relative or party representative — voters had to read to participate. That was the…
This thing? “Yeah.” It’s just, it’s a camera. It also takes film. “Oh, all right, OK.” It’s a digital camera. “Yeah.” And this is a microphone. “Oh, OK. You know,…
Russia has launched its first mission to the moon in nearly 50 years, racing to land on the lunar south pole before a spacecraft from India gets there. (August 11)…
President Joe Biden commemorates the first anniversary of a bipartisan law that’s the largest expansion of veterans benefits in decades with a visit to a VA hospital in Salt Lake…
Four astronauts set to fly around the moon and back next year have gotten their first glimpse of the spacecraft that will take them there. The four Artemis II crew…
Peruvian Lenin Tamayo grew up listening to the Andean music his mother sang in Spanish and Quechua, South America’s most widely spoken Indigenous language. As a teenager, K-Pop served as…
Here’s the latest for Thursday, August 10: Biden declares disaster in Hawaii; Inflation up slightly in July; Iran moves five Iranian-Americans out of prison; Virgin Galactic takes first paying passengers…