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Anne McClain said the spacewalk wasn’t necessarily canceled, but instead was shuffled around, and the “Saturday Night Live” performance “was the laugh we needed up here.”

Anne McClain said the spacewalk wasn’t necessarily canceled, but instead was shuffled around, and the “Saturday Night Live” performance “was the laugh we needed up here.”

House lawmakers suggested Tuesday that Department of Veterans Affairs officials postpone a major expansion of veterans’ access to private-sector doctors, following warnings that its information technology system is flawed and could disrupt patient care.

Rear Adm. Donna L. Cottrell replaces Rear Adm. Joanna Nunan, the first woman in the U.S. Coast Guard to succeed another woman as district commander. Nunan had succeeded Rear Adm. June Ryan.

President Donald Trump took credit Tuesday for an increase in defense spending among NATO members, suggesting that an alliance he has harshly criticized has turned a corner. But Germany did not escape criticism.

The regents previously had named Heather Wilson as the sole finalist for the job. Under state law, they had to wait at least 21 days to firm up the appointment.

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika stepped down on Tuesday after 20 years in office, and six weeks of massive nationwide protests aimed at pushing him and his much-criticized inner circle from power to create a real democracy in the gas-rich nation.

Under the arrangement, a Tu-154 plane based out of Travis Air Force Base in northern California has surveyed West Coast sites in accordance with the Treaty on Open Skies.

About 30 local officers are walking in the name of Weymouth police Sgt. Michael Chesna in the Military Friends Foundation’s 2019 Tough Ruck on Sunday, April 14.

The Trump administration may send more troops to the border, officials said Tuesday, as delays grow at ports of entry and the president contemplates closing all or some of the crossings this week.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday assailed House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler for his demand to see the full special counsel report on the Russia investigation, noting that the New York Democrat had opposed the release of the 1998 Starr report on the investigation of then-President Bill Clinton.

The review process, which applies to millions of government workers, requires former intelligence agency and military personnel to get approval before writing, publishing or speaking about their service.

Count Alyssa Milano among the vocal supporters of former Vice President Joe Biden, who has been accused by two women of acting inappropriately.

Meredith Watson, one of two women who have accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, D, of sexual assault, on Tuesday urged the state legislature to hold a public hearing on the allegations during her first televised interview.

It’s nearly lunchtime on a Friday in downtown Manhattan, but Ruth Wilson is just sitting down to breakfast. Her meals are all out of whack because she’s starring every night in a 3 ½-hour production of “King Lear.” Wilson, who plays doomed Cordelia and the Fool in “Lear,” has also depicted a psychopathic genius in the BBC’s “Luther,” a woman clouded by grief in Showtime’s “The Affair,” a 19th-century governess who falls for her brooding master in the BBC’s “Jane Eyre,” and a submissive wife torn... Читать дальше...

A man who fails to register for the draft by his 26th birthday can no longer do so — forever closing the door to government benefits like student aid, a government job or even U.S. citizenship.

Outgoing Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told a House panel Tuesday that the service’s number of squadrons needs to grow another 25 percent to meet increasing demands around the world.

According to a NASA assessment last week, the Indian space test increased the likelihood of small debris hitting the International Space Station by 44 percent over a period of 10 days. The risk is expected eventually to return to normal.

The key variables appear to be who the Democrats choose as their nominee, and how they choose him or her.

Ever since Attorney General William Barr released the “principal conclusions” of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Democrats have been bracing — or is it hoping? — for a cover-up.

Air Force Gen. Tod Wolters and Army Gen. Stephen J. Townsend faced questioning Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee, following their nominations to head the European Command and Africa Command respectively.

The Trump administration is blaming the Iranian government for damage from devastating floods that have killed at least 50 people.

Authorities say an airman stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base and another man who had stopped to help him following a crash were struck and killed by a semi that veered off an icy highway in southwestern South Dakota.

Police in West Virginia say a man was trying to abduct a child at a mall when the mother stopped him by pulling out a gun.