Nation/World

Boeing’s first astronaut mission ended Friday night with an empty capsule landing and two test pilots still in space, left behind until next year because NASA judged their return too risky.

Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump touted support from law enforcement this week as crime remains a prominent issue in the presidential race.

Does Vice President Kamala Harris support “defunding” police? A cluster of interviews from 2020 provides a unique window into her worldview.

The teen is charged with murder, and his father is accused of second-degree murder for providing his son with a semiautomatic, AR 15-style rifle used to kill children. Arrest warrants say the elder Gray did so knowing his son “was a threat to himself and others.”

His comment appeared to mark tonal shift, though not a policy one, from the steadfast support for Israel that Vice President Kamala Harris espoused at the Democratic National Convention last month.

Israel said it killed 14 militants during the operation, which was one of its longest in the occupied territory in years.

Like his daughter, Dick Cheney has been an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump, notably during Liz Cheney’s ill-fated reelection campaign in 2022.

A Pakistani man was arrested in Canada for plotting a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.

Hvaldimir the beluga won hearts in Norway’s coastal communities after showing up wearing a harness that read “Equipment St. Petersburg.”

A Kennedy attorney praised the North Carolina and Michigan rulings, saying they uphold state elections laws and support ballot integrity by ensuring no one must vote for a candidate no longer running in their state.

A steep drop in crime is reversing the pandemic-era surge. Officials say the decline in homicides shows the value of focusing on speedy gun crime investigations.

After a difficult first year as vice president, Harris has grown into her role — and found staff who respond better to her style, allies say

Judge Juan M. Merchan’s decision Friday grants Trump a hard-won reprieve as he navigates the aftermath of his criminal conviction and the homestretch of his presidential campaign.

Donald Trump on Friday stepped in front of TV cameras and brought up a string of past allegations of acts of sexual misconduct, potentially reminding voters of incidents that were little-known or forgotten.

But many questions still remain about whether more could have been done to prevent the shooting.

A U.S. State Department spokesperson confirmed the death of the 26-year-old woman on Friday but did not say whether she had been shot by Israeli troops.

China’s national meteorological authorities said Yagi was the strongest autumn typhoon ever to land in China.

Amid an onslaught of lethal heat, surging disease and record-breaking storms, global temperatures this summer climbed to the highest levels on record, according to Europe’s top climate agency.

The 14-year-old suspect in a shooting at a Georgia high school that killed four people and his father will both stay in custody following back-to-back court hearings Friday morning where their lawyers declined to seek bail.

Following the Apalachee High School killings in Georgia, the Republican vice presidential nominee said schools must increase security.

Researchers based their conclusion on an analysis of tiny glass beads brought back from the moon by a Chinese spacecraft.

The U.S. government charged a former adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign with working for a sanctioned Russian state television network and laundering the proceeds.

The appointment follows weeks of intense efforts by Macron and his aides to find a candidate who might be able to build loose groupings of backers in parliament and survive promised attempts by Macron’s opponents to quickly topple the new government.