Blue Origin is a central player in NASA’s moon project, but those plans took a big hit Thursday night when one of Jeff Bezos’ rockets catastrophically exploded into a giant mushroom cloud on its Cape Canaveral launch pad.

It’s unknown how long it could take to get the pad up and running again — and the space agency’s timetable for its...Read more

An unruly passenger on a United Airlines flight headed to the Twin Cities prompted officials to divert the aircraft late Friday.

The flight, which originated in Chicago, landed safely in Madison, Wis. There were no injuries reported on the plane.

The unruly passenger was a 75-year-old man who appeared “confused and in mental health crisis,�...Read more

Several Americans were hurt in a missile attack on a Kuwaiti air base over the past day as a White House meeting to discuss extending the ceasefire with Iran ended without conclusion.

The lack of public comment after the Situation Room talks on Friday, despite President Donald Trump earlier suggesting an agreement was near, was the latest ...Read more

It’s increasingly common to see headlines and social media conversations about the rise in colorectal cancer among younger adults. In fact, the growing incidence of colorectal cancer in people under age 50 helped drive the American Cancer Society’s 2018 decision to recommend lowering the recommended age for average-risk screening from 50 ...Read more

President Donald Trump plans to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary — and his own 80th birthday — in June by watching bare-chested and bloody UFC fighters kick, punch and choke each other on the storied South Lawn of the White House.

Later, during the administration's summer-long festival to commemorate the signing of the Declaration ...Read more

MIAMI — The Trump administration deported a longtime Marathon, Florida, resident with temporary protected status to Haiti despite a federal judge’s order that has kept the protections in place — and then allowed him to come back to the U.S. two weeks later.

Law enforcement agents picked up Brulan during a routine traffic stop on April 12 ...Read more

Over his decades as a marine biologist, Randall Davis’ research has taken him across the world. He’s studied otters in Alaska, sea turtles in St. Croix and sperm whales in the remote Ogasawara Islands hundreds of miles south of Japan.

But in recent weeks, Davis’ science has taken him to a place few career researchers want to be: at the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump “remains in excellent health,” according to the White House doctor, after undergoing a physical earlier this week that included a cognitive test.

A memorandum by the physician, Capt. Sean Barbabella, concluded that Trump, who turns 80 next month, “is fully fit to carry out all duties of the commander ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said it will appeal a judge’s authority to order across-the-board refunds of all tariffs ruled illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court, potentially injecting legal chaos into a claims process that’s already underway.

The Justice Department filed notice on Friday that it will appeal a court order compelling ...Read more

ACCRA, Ghana — Ghana’s parliament passed a Draconian anti-LGBTQ bill Friday, months after it was reintroduced in parliament.

The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill prescribes prison sentences of as much as three years for people who identify as LGBTQ. It compels anyone who knows someone to be gay to report them to authorities, and ...Read more

After eating a lot of fast food, some of it on roller coasters, YouTuber Allen Ferrell has been banned by Six Flags from all of its amusement parks nationwide. For life.

McDonald’s chicken nuggets were apparently an ultra-processed food item too far for the folks at Six Flags’ Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio.

“This guest has been banned ...Read more

Even though Blue Origin suffered a massive explosion of its New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday night, two other launch providers pushed forward with missions Friday on the Space Coast.

The second launch of the day was a United Launch Alliance Atlas V, which lifted off at 7:53 a.m. Eastern time on the Amazon Leo 7...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump to respond to “grievous allegations” that his deal with the government to create a $1.8 billion fund to resolve his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was the result of a “fraud” on the court.

In an order on Friday, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams gave the ...Read more