MINNEAPOLIS — After a wave of resignations decimated the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s office, the federal government has tried to offset the staffing crunch with a novel strategy: deploying military lawyers to temporarily serve as assistant prosecutors.

That method now faces a legal test over whether these lawyers can prosecute civilians in ...Read more

As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts make their way to the moon this weekend, their test flight has gone surprisingly well without any major issues, save for one piece of technology giving the crew some grief: the toilet.

The Lockheed Martin-built Orion crew capsule that’s carrying the Artemis II crew to the moon is equipped with what’s known...Read more

The Democratic Republic of Congo will join several African states willing to accept third-country nationals deported from the U.S.

The program will see deportees arriving in the central African country from this month, the government said in a statement on Sunday. The U.S. will cover all the costs, it said.

“This stay is not intended to ...Read more

Israel assesses that Iran still has more than 1,000 missiles capable of reaching it, while Hezbollah’s arsenal in Lebanon includes as many as 10,000 shorter-range rockets, according to military briefings cited by Israeli media this weekend.

In an interview with Channel 12, an Israeli air force officer provided the tally of remaining Iranian ...Read more

The Trump administration has asked satellite imagery providers to voluntarily withhold images of designated areas of interest due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, prompting Planet Labs PBC to restrict access to data from the region.

The San Francisco-based commercial satellite provider said on Sunday that the measures would apply ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Merely two weeks had passed since the Iran war began when Gen. Randy George, the Army's highest-ranking officer, began sounding an alarm.

Touring a weapons depot in North Carolina, George warned lawmakers present that the conflict's vast and ever-growing list of targets was straining U.S. capacity — "depleting our stockpiles ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent much of last week railing against the courts. The courts, in turn, spent it ruling against him.

While Trump made history as the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court, where he stared down justices as they questioned his bid to end birthright citizenship, quieter ...Read more

While the primary goal of the Artemis II mission is the ensure the Orion spacecraft is safe for humans, NASA did find time to fit some science on board during the 10-day lunar fly-by.

“The most complex machine we’re flying is the human, and we have to understand the human as a system in order to be successful,” said Steven Platts, NASA’...Read more

Israel assesses that Iran still has more than 1,000 missiles capable of reaching it, while Hezbollah’s arsenal in Lebanon includes as many as 10,000 shorter-range rockets, according to military briefings cited by Israeli media this weekend.

In an interview with Channel 12, an Israeli air force officer provided the tally of remaining Iranian ...Read more

As the science of detecting microplastics matures, so too does consensus about their ubiquity. Everywhere researchers have looked to find them, there they've been: In human brains and lungs; in breast milk and semen; in alpine snow and deep-sea sediment; in corn plants and beer.

And that, say researchers, is the rub: Scientists are not just ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado is experiencing its lowest snowpack levels since record-keeping began statewide in 1941. Statewide snowpack, as of Thursday, was at 26% of the median — about a quarter of what the state typically has this time of year, according to data from the USDA National Water and Climate Center.

That means there is roughly 74% less ...Read more

U.S. forces rescued an airman from Iran more than a day after his fighter jet was shot down and President Donald Trump threatened to target the country’s infrastructure, while the Islamic Republic’s continued attacks damaged Kuwait’s oil headquarters and shut down an Emirati petrochemicals plant.

Trump renewed his threats to destroy ...Read more

The next steps in the U.S. military campaign against Iran will commit nearly its entire inventory of stealthy JASSM-ER cruise missiles, drawing them from stockpiles devoted to other regions.

The order to pull the $1.5 million weapon from Pacific stockpiles was issued at the end of March, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter...Read more

Of all the things Donald Trump has done to disrupt global commerce, from levying punitive tariffs to tearing up trade deals, few would be as consequential as withdrawing and leaving the rest of the world to secure the Persian Gulf.

The move, which the U.S. president has repeatedly threatened as his war with Iran drags on, would represent a ...Read more

U.S. forces rescued an airman from Iran after his fighter jet was shot down, while the Islamic Republic’s continued attacks sparked fires that damaged Kuwait’s oil headquarters and shut down an Emirati petrochemicals plant.

The U.S. deployed dozens of aircraft to retrieve the injured crew member from a mountainous area, a day after a second...Read more