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Each year on Memorial Day, tens of thousands of Americans visit Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington to pay tribute to the men and women who died serving the United States.
Is John Yettaw crazy, or just eccentric? The answer’s not quite clear, as the Missouri man remains in a Burmese prison charged with a head-scratching nighttime swim that’s imperiled one of the world’s best-known democracy figures.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his concern over the potential of a nuclear-armed Iran during meetings with top congressional leaders Tuesday. He met with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee first, followed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader John Boehner. An Iranian regime armed with nuclear weapons “is a great danger to all of us, to Israel specifically and to the moderate Arab regimes, [and] to America,” Netanyahu said after his meeting with Pelosi and Boehner
The space shuttle Atlantis crew began its final spacewalk to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope on Monday morning. If all goes as planned, it will be the last time human hands touch the orbiting telescope, which has provided astronomers distant images that have helped them see further into the origins of the universe.
When they first met last year, the two men had a cordial, pleasant exchange. They were all smiles. But neither was the leader of his country at the time
The space shuttle Atlantis crew on Thursday prepared to embark on the first of five spacewalks during its 11-day mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. After a two-day chase, the shuttle Wednesday captured the telescope with its robotic arm 350 miles above Earth and pulled it into Atlantis’ cargo bay for service
A survey of space shuttle Atlantis’ outer body has revealed that four tiles on the right side have "some dings" in them, the flight director said Tuesday. “As we were going through the surveys we did see probably about 21 inches in all … four tiles with some dings in them,” Tony Ceccacci told reporters
Russia revoked the diplomatic accreditation Wednesday of two Canadians who worked at the NATO Information Office in Moscow, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. It comes after Belgium revoked the diplomatic accreditation of two Russian representatives at NATO headquarters last week.
The United States is launching a diplomatic effort to get North Korean nuclear talks back on the rails.
When Megan Maciejowski was laid off from her job at an investment bank at the end of 2008, she cleaned out her desk, retreated to her Venice Beach, Calif., apartment and started sprucing up her resume. Then the 33-year-old set aside some of her severance package and arranged to spend February in artsy San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Her goals for the trip were simple: to take an immersive Spanish class, do some painting, experience a new culture and generally relax