The Ingenuity helicopter has successfully completed its historic flight on Mars and safely landed back on the surface, according to NASA.
The first powered, controlled flight on another planet took place at 3:34 a.m. ET.
Unlike when the helicopter's fellow traveler, the Perseverance rover, landed on Mars on February 18, there was a bit of wait to know how the helicopter fared in its attempt.
The helicopter team was in mission control at ...
WASHINGTON DC - On 'Meet the Press' on Sunday with Chuck Todd, former Republican US House Speaker John Boehner said: "I'd rather set myself on fire than to run for office again," Boehner of Ohio replied to show moderator
In response, Todd said that he asked Boehner that question "because I expected an answer just like that."
"You're a sh-t," Boehner chuckled.
Boehner has been promoting his new book "On The House: A Washington Memoir." ...
The new Indian variant of the COVID virus that's been detected in the UK has all the hallmarks of a very dangerous virus.
It has two new significant mutations in the spike protein that help it infect cells and evade the immune system.
New figures from Public Health England show there have been 73 cases detected in England and another four in Scotland.
WASHINGTON DC - US President Joe Biden and Japan's Prime Yoshihide Suga presented a united front against China during Suga's visit to Washington on Friday.
Prince Philip, the late husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, will be burried Saturday in an exclusive service attended by 30 people including members of the royal family.
The Duke of Edinburgh died at the age of 99 on April 9 in Windsor Castle. He was the nation’s longest-serving consort - the name used to describe the spouse of a reigning monarch - and had been married to the Queen for 73 years.
His death has left a large empty void Qu ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million people Saturday amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and France.
The nu ...
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA - Eight people were killed after a gunman opened fire at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis late Thursday before killing himself, according to police.
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota — A white former police officer faced her first court appearance Thursday in the traffic-stop shooting of Black motorist Daunte Wright that has engulfed a small Minneapolis suburb in four straight days of bitter conflict between protesters and police.
Kim Potter, who quit her job on the Brooklyn Center force two days after Wright’s death, was charged Wednesday with second-degree manslaughter in what her chief said ap ...
WASHINGTON, D.C, - The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits tumbled last week to 576,000, a post-COVID low and a hopeful sign that layoffs are easing as the economy recovers from the pandemic recession.
The Labor Department said Thursday that applications plummeted by 193,000 from a revised 769,000 a week earlier. Jobless claims are now down sharply from a peak of 900,000 in early January and well below the 700,000-plus level ...
WASHINGTON DC - President Joe Biden will declare on Wednesday he plans to end the longest U.S. war and that it is “time for American troops to come home” from Afghanistan, looking to close the book on 20 years of U.S. military involvement there even as critics warn that peace is not assured.
“We went to Afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago,” Biden will say, according to excerpts of his speech released by the Whit ...
Foreign spying and interference in Canada last year hit levels not seen since the Cold War, in part because of vulnerabilities caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the main Canadian spy agency said on Monday,
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service singled out Russia and China as particular causes for concern and said key national security threats such as violent extremism, foreign interference, espionage and malicious cyber activity grew in 2 ...
For the sixth month in a row, the city of Rio de Janeiro has seen more deaths than births -- a devastating indicator of the nation's unceasing Covid-19 crisis.
Brazil's second most populous city, Rio de Janeiro registered 36,437 deaths in March -- 16% more than the month's 32,060 new births, according to the National Civil Register. It wasn't alone; at least 10 other Brazilian cities with populations over half a million people also registered ...
The United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, has warned Myanmar is heading toward a "full blown conflict" with "clear echoes" of Syria in 2011, unless the international community steps in to stop the violence.
In a statement Tuesday, Bachelet urged states to take "immediate, decisive and impactful measures to push Myanmar's military leadership into halting its campaign of repression and slaughter of its people."
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More than a year into the pandemic and as cases resurge in Latin America, two recent elections suggest that popular political views on how to escape the crisis remain deeply polarized -- at a time when cohesion is most needed.
South American politics are frequently interconnected, sometimes with shared political trends. Across the region, political and economic reforms are urgently needed due to the dramatic economic impact of the pandemic -- ...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Prince Philip, the late husband to the UK's Queen Elizabeth II, will be laid to rest on Saturday next week, in a ceremony that will be colourful and steeped in tradition, but low key by royal standards.
Philip, who was officially the Duke of Edinburgh, died peacefully at Windsor Castle on Friday morning at the age of 99. He was the nation's longest-serving consort -- a term given to the spouse of a reigning monarch -- ...
TOKYO, Japan - Japan will start releasing more than 1 million metric tons of treated radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean in two years, the government said Tuesday -- a plan that faces opposition at home and has raised "grave concern" in neighbouring countries.
The decision to release the wastewater comes more than a decade after the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011, having been rep ...
PARIS, French - One person was killed and one critically injured in a targeted shooting outside a Paris hospital on Monday, the city prosecutor's office told CNN.
The attacker fled the scene outside the Henry Dunant Hospital, in the 16th arrondissement of the French capital, using a two-wheeled vehicle.
The prosecutor's office said that initial investigations suggest the deceased, a 33-year-old man, was "intentionally targeted by the gunman ...
A woman has made history in the United Arab Emirates as the country's first female astronaut.
Noura Al-Matrooshi is one of two new astronauts in the UAE's Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre astronaut program, UAE vice president and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced on Twitter.
The United Arab Emirates has not proven that Princess Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, the missing daughter of Dubai's ruler, is alive, the United Nations has said.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said Friday it has asked the UAE for "proof of life" for the Princess but has not received it.
"We haven't got any proof of life, and we would like one. One that is clear, compelling evidence that she's alive. ...