NASA astronaut Mike Fincke announced Wednesday that it was his medical incident aboard the International Space Station in January that prompted the agency to return the SpaceX Crew-11 mission to Earth early.

“On Jan. 7, while aboard the International Space Station, I experienced a medical event that required immediate attention from my ...Read more

President Donald Trump headed into Tuesday night's State of the Union speech projecting confidence in his personal power to "Make America Great Again," despite the woes he says he's been saddled with by his Democratic predecessors.

He also stood in a uniquely precarious position — facing some of his lowest approval ratings ever, plummeting ...Read more

NEW YORK — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates issued an apology for his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a townhall for the Gates Foundation, during which he also confessed to having two affairs while married to his ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, according to reports.

Speaking to foundation staffers on Tuesday, Gates ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Handle this with care: there could be glass in fried rice at Trader Joe's.

The manufacturer, Ajinomoto Foods North America, recalled more than 3 million pounds of frozen chicken fried rice that "may be contaminated with foreign material, specifically glass," according to an alert issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump, speaking for well over an hour, shattered the record on Tuesday for the length of a State of the Union address.

Speaking for about 100 minutes, the nation's leader touched upon a broad range of domestic and international topics, bragged about his accomplishments and awarded the nation's highest honors to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — To defend an increasingly unpopular immigration crackdown during his State of the Union speech, President Donald Trump highlighted the victims of crimes perpetuated by undocumented immigrants.

But as Democrats pointed out, the president's lengthy speech made no reference to the U.S. citizens, including Renee Good and Alex Pretti...Read more

WASHINGTON — Inside the Capitol, President Donald Trump broke the record for the longest-ever State of the Union address on Tuesday night, speaking for nearly two hours. But outside on the National Mall, Democrats held out even longer.

More than two dozen members of Congress chose to boycott the address in favor of a counterrally that ...Read more

NASA has at least another 8 miles of terrestrial travel to accomplish before it can take on a 600,000-mile trip to space.

With a problem in the Artemis II rocket’s upper stage that cannot be fixed at the launch pad, NASA began to roll back the 11 million pounds of hardware from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B to the Vehicle Assembly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday night used his State of the Union address to repeatedly attack congressional Democrats as they objected to his immigration policies, while also arguing that his policies were putting more money in the pockets of Americans who have soured on the economy.

The annual address to a joint session of ...Read more

CHICAGO — In the fall, Democrats in Illinois were largely unified against President Donald Trump’s ramped-up Chicago-area immigration enforcement crackdown. Now the issue is being used as a political wedge in this spring’s Democratic primary races.

Perhaps nowhere has that been made clearer than in the race for the 40th Illinois House ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, President Donald Trump struck a confident and defiant tone — claiming huge victories tackling crime in major U.S. cities, securing the nation's borders, deporting undocumented immigrants, bringing down costs for American households and commanding respect for the U.S. on the world ...Read more

Tamar Abrams had a lousy couple of years in 2022 and ’23. Both her parents died; a relationship ended; she retired from communications consulting. She moved from Arlington, Virginia, to Warren, Rhode Island, where she knew all of two people.

“I was kind of a mess,” recalled Abrams, 69. Trying to cope, “I was eating myself into oblivion....Read more

For nearly two decades, they were the invisible scaffolding of Venezuela’s socialist state: Cuban intelligence officers embedded in military bases, security advisers shadowing generals, and technical teams quietly monitoring the communications of an entire nation.

Now, as Venezuela’s political order convulses after the capture of strongman ...Read more

Lawmakers in at least eight states this year are aiming to reel in wage garnishment for unpaid medical bills.

The legislation introduced in Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Ohio, and Washington builds on efforts made in other states in past years. This latest push for patient protections comes as the Trump administration has...Read more

In an election year with the Trump administration’s widespread crackdown on immigration enforcement in the backdrop, a pair of California lawmakers are looking to shore up protections for voters.

That’s the idea, at least, behind a new package of bills from Sens. Tom Umberg and Sabrina Cervantes, both Democrats, that would increase the ...Read more