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NASA opening moon rock samples sealed since Apollo missions
Inside a locked vault at Johnson Space Center is treasure few have seen and fewer have touched. Read more
Inside a locked vault at Johnson Space Center is treasure few have seen and fewer have touched. Read more
U.S. officials opened a Texas Border Patrol facility to journalists, offering a first inside glimpse of the station since migrant children reported living there in squalid conditions with inadequate food, water and sanitation. Read more
He implied that the incident was an example of Democrats’ showing frustration for the successes of his father’s Republican administration. Read more
Her 25-year-old son, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, and his daughter Valeria were swept away by the current near Matamoros, Mexico, and Brownsville, Texas, this week. Read more
The Argus Leader was seeking to learn how much money goes annually to every store nationwide that participates in the government’s $65 billion-a-year food assistance program, previously known as food stamps. Read more
President Donald Trump has awarded the nation’s highest military honor to an Iraq War veteran who took on an insurgent stronghold and allowed members of his platoon to move to safety during heavy fighting in Fallujah. Read more
San Francisco became the first major U.S. city to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes after supervisors gave the measure its second and final vote today. Read more
President Donald Trump increasingly is being tailed and trolled by an angry diaper-clad caricature armed with a cell phone. Read more
She will also take on the role of White House communications director, a strategic and forward-looking role that has been vacant since March, and will accompany Trump on a trip to Japan and South Korea that starts Wednesday. Read more
The head of the Massachusetts motor vehicle division has resigned for failing to terminate the commercial driving license of man whose collision with a group of motorcyclists in New Hampshire left seven dead. Read more
Gov. J.B. Pritzker, whose election last year gave Democrats complete control over state government again after four years under GOP predecessor Bruce Rauner, signed the bill in Chicago amid a bevy of lawmakers and pot proponents. Read more
Commissioner John Sanders’ departure deepened the sense of crisis and added to the rapid turnover inside the agencies responsible for enforcing President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration priorities. Read more
SpaceX launched its heftiest rocket with 24 research satellites Tuesday, a middle-of-the-night rideshare featuring a deep space atomic clock, solar sail, a clean and green rocket fuel testbed, and even human ashes. Read more
A man who was involved in a terrifying 2016 skydiving accident on the same plane that crashed and killed 11 people in Hawaii on Friday says he wishes he could have done more to prevent the tragedy. Read more
Two babies, a toddler and a woman were found dead near the U.S.-Mexican border, overcome by the sweltering heat in a glimpse of what could lie ahead this summer as record numbers of migrant families try to get into the United States. Read more
Federal officials have released their review on removing or changing vegetation over a huge swath of the U.S. West to stop wildfires on land used for cattle ranching, recreation and habitat for imperiled sage grouse. Read more
Brendt Christensen, 29, looked straight ahead and showed no emotion as a guilty verdict was announced against him. Read more
Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was arrested this morning at his home in West Springfield, Massachusetts, on a fugitive from justice charge related to Friday’s crash, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office said. Read more
Just 30 children remained at the facility near El Paso today, said Rep. Veronica Escobar after her office was briefed on the situation by an official with Customs and Border Protection. Read more
The avowed white supremacist who plowed his car into counterdemonstrators opposing a white nationalist rally in Virginia two years ago, killing one person and injuring dozens, has asked a judge for mercy and a sentence shorter than life in prison. Read more