Britain’s King Charles III continued his nine-day tour of the Caribbean Thursday under mounting pressure to issue a formal apology for the U.K. royal family’s historic role in the transatlantic slave trade and to support calls for reparations. Charles was to visit Guyana on Thursday before traveling to Antigua and Barbuda for a meeting of…
NASA is pressing ahead with Artemis moon program revisions to give the agency its best shot at a lunar landing in 2028 using a lander built by either Elon Musk’s SpaceX or Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, depending on which one testing indicates is the right choice, officials said Friday. The strategy is intended to provide…
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a death-row inmate after a number of former public officials and the current district attorney raised doubts about his conviction. The Republican governor said she was commuting Toforest Johnson’s death sentence to life in prison without parole. Johnson was convicted of the 1995 murder of…
Washington — The White House told U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign, days after an associate shared text messages indicating she had asked him for $100,000 to pay her American Express bill before her Senate confirmation hearing. “We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign,” White House press secretary Katie Zacharia said during her…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket boosted an unpiloted Dragon cargo ship into orbit Tuesday, setting up a rendezvous with the International Space Station early Thursday to deliver more than 6,300 pounds of research materials, spare parts and crew supplies. Also on board are two new roll-out solar array blankets, the final sets in a major…
Washington — President Trump said he and his administration are “looking at” firing Kimberly Guilfoyle from her position as U.S. ambassador to Greece, after an associate of Guilfoyle’s alleged she asked him to wire $100,000 to pay her American Express bill in exchange for her help with the Trump administration ahead of her Senate confirmation…
Businessman Eric Deters said he has “no doubt it was pay to play,” claiming Kimberly Guilfoyle, now the U.S. ambassador to Greece and ex-fiancee of Donald Trump Jr., asked him to wire $100,000 to pay her American Express bill in exchange for her help with the Trump administration ahead of Guilfoyle’s Senate confirmation hearing.  …
A suspected member of ShinyHunters, the hacking group that claimed responsibility last month for defacing the FBI’s website, was detained in Jordan this week and is cooperating with the investigators, according to U.S. officials. Jordanian authorities detained Saif al-Din Khader this week, according to two U.S. officials and another source with knowledge of the matter….
This past Wednesday, the co-pilot of FlyDubai’s Flight 1073, flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv, attacked the captain and tried to crash the Boeing 737 Max, the jet plunging 14,000 feet in a matter of seconds. Passengers subdued the attacker and another pilot righted the plane with moments to spare. Correspondent Matt Gutman talks with…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off on a flight to the International Space Station Thursday carrying two NASA astronauts, a cosmonaut and a Canadian crew member whose wife plans a launch of her own later this year, giving birth to the couple’s third child while her husband is in space. Strapped into a SpaceX…
