SpaceX successfully caught its Starship rocket as it returned to the Texas launch site from orbit, a novel engineering feat and major step toward Elon Musk’s goal of developing a fully reusable system.

Starship descended from the sky over SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas after 3 p.m. local time on Saturday, lowering itself belly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation was working Saturday to determine whether Friday’s air traffic control system meltdown resulted from human error or equipment failure as travelers across the nation continued to grapple with a cascade of flight delays and cancellations.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the crisis ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida Gov.-elect Byron Donalds’ new policy chair is a lobbyist who has claimed credit for ensuring Obamacare subsidy extensions died in Congress last year.

Donalds named Tarren Bragdon as the policy chair of his transition team this week. He’s the founder and CEO of the Naples-based conservative think tank Foundation for ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Supporters of Bill Peterson’s bid to become Minneapolis’ next police chief felt optimistic Thursday morning.

Top Minneapolis police supervisors, gathered behind closed doors, declared that the interim chief had the votes to secure the job.

But by mid-afternoon, following hours of scrutiny from skeptical City Council members...Read more

LONG PRAIRIE, Minn. — Talk to enough Amish residents in Todd County and you’ll hear a common refrain about the measles outbreak happening there.

“It’s just measles. Might as well get it over with,” said Emmanuel Schwartzentruber, who sells wooden chests and baskets from his farm west of Long Prairie, Minn.

Talk to the doctor treating...Read more

MIAMI — Hundreds of flights were canceled at South Florida airports Saturday after a telecommunications outage prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to issue a nationwide ground stop Friday, blocking planes from taking off and causing headaches for weekend travelers.

The head of the FAA say delays and cancellations will continue ...Read more

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Saturday that officials are looking into whether aerospace and defense contractor L3Harris Technologies Inc. was at fault for an aviation traffic control system shutdown that grounded flights nationwide for more than four hours.

L3Harris was replacing a copper line with fiber at a remote Federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation was working Saturday to determine whether Friday's air traffic control system meltdown resulted from human error or equipment failure as travelers across the nation continued to grapple with a cascade of flight delays and cancellations.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the crisis ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — United Launch Alliance delayed the return of Vulcan one more time Saturday after a new communication issue popped up one day after having to push the rocket’s chance to return to flight because of a vendor issue.

“The launch of a United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket carrying the Amazon Leo 1 mission is delayed due to a ...Read more

The Trump administration’s cuts to roughly 80,000 U.S. troops across Europe will be lower than the continent’s leaders have feared, according to people familiar with the matter.

European allies had previously feared the U.S. might cut as many as 25,000 troops, but a smaller cut is now more likely because the U.S. has looked favorably on ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said U.S. peace envoys asked whether Ukraine would be willing to give up the Donbas region in the nation’s east to Russia in exchange for NATO membership, signaling a potential shift in Washington’s negotiating tactics.

As the full-scale war between Ukraine and Russia heads toward the end of its ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- There is only one place new data centers are being built in the greater Los Angeles area: the city of Vernon.

Just south of downtown L.A., it’s a city made up almost exclusively of companies. About 50,000 people commute every day into Vernon to work, but only about 300 actually live there, and the city government is famous for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — For more than four hours, a ground stop of virtually all aircraft in the United States brought unprecedented chaos and delays that are expected to last days.

Here is what we know about what went wrong.

—What caused the stop?

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said switches and routers on the Federal Aviation ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called on Congress to authorize $50 billion in emergency funding to overhaul the U.S. air traffic control system after a technical issue spawned the longest nationwide grounding in more than two decades.

“This is an emergency,” Duffy said at a White House news conference on Friday. He ...Read more

The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday issued an extraordinary four-hour ground stoppage on all flights in the United States after a communications issue crippled air traffic control centers.

The situation caused havoc at airports across the country and affected thousands of flights. The stop was lifted at around 8:30 p.m. Eastern time, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., a fierce advocate for universal healthcare and outspoken war critic who served 28 years in Congress, died Thursday at the age of 89, his family announced.

In a roughly 50-year career in state and federal office, the salty-tongued, liberal lawmaker from Seattle won praise and criticism for ...Read more