The first of two Environmental Impact Statements around SpaceX plans for Starship launch sites on Florida's Space Coast was released last week, and it lays out the company’s plans to fly as many as 76 times a year from Cape Canaveral Space Station.

The Department of the Air Force owns the property at Space Launch Complex 37 that was most ...Read more

ATLANTA — Headlines blared in May when U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would stop recommending COVID-19 vaccinations for some people — namely healthy pregnant women and healthy children over 6 months old. That could mean insurance no ...Read more

ATLANTA — “Catastrophic.”

It’s a word Courtney English returns to again and again as he reflects on the first few weeks of the year, when the Office of Management and Budget announced a temporary freeze on federal loans and grants.

At that time, the threats to housing assistance and development shook city of Atlanta officials.

“If ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston residents impacted by Mass and Cass spillover say the area “remains an open-air drug market” two years after the mayor rolled out a plan to clean up the troubled intersection and are begging for more police enforcement to quell the lawlessness.

Brian McCarter, a South End resident, said drug dealing has persisted at 874 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers divided along party lines in their views of whether U.S. military forces should deploy to quell protests even over the objections of a governor.

On Saturday, President Donald Trump placed under federal control some 2,000 National Guard troops in California in response to occasionally violent protests there against Trump...Read more

Bree Fram, a colonel in the U.S. Space Force and a transgender woman who was tapped to be the grand marshal at the Annapolis Parade last month before bad weather postponed it, said Monday she will retire after a Trump administration directive led to her being placed her on leave.

Fram is among a wave of trans people voluntarily leaving military...Read more

Russia is stepping up drone production enabling massive daily attacks on Ukrainian cities as its troops inch forward on the battlefield and Moscow presses Kyiv to concede to peace terms.

The Kremlin unleashed deadly destruction in the capital Kyiv and the Black Sea city of Odesa overnight, firing 315 drones and seven missiles, according to ...Read more

ATLANTA — Atlantans in crisis are reaching 911 with fewer delays after years of long hold times.

The latest monthly data released for May show the city’s E911 center dramatically reduced the number of callers who had to wait for an operator to answer the phones, an improvement officials attribute in part to hiring more operators who can ...Read more

Tuesday morning’s weather was nice enough on the Space Coast for one of two planned launches, but high winds in a potential abort site forced the human spaceflight plans of Axiom Space and SpaceX to push the Ax-4 mission from Kennedy Space Center to at least Wednesday.

The payload of 23 Starlink satellites on another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, ...Read more

Russia is stepping up drone production to increase massive daily attacks on Ukrainian cities as Moscow pressures Kyiv to concede to peace terms.

The Kremlin unleashed deadly destruction in the capital Kyiv and the Black Sea city of Odesa overnight, firing 315 drones and seven missiles, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. That ...Read more

ATLANTA — Late last month, the Trump administration released a list of so-called “sanctuary jurisdictions” across the country, describing them as places that obstruct immigration enforcement.

Among the hundreds of communities on the list, which was briefly published on the Department of Homeland Security’s website, were six Georgia ...Read more

Talks between the U.S. and China stretched into a second day in London, with financial markets on edge as the world’s largest economies try to agree to allow exports of key tech and industrial goods and avoid escalating their trade war.

The teams led by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng reconvened ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Violent crime was already trending down from a COVID-era spike when President Donald Trump presented a picture of unbridled crime in America on the campaign trail in 2024. Now his administration has eliminated about $500 million in grants to organizations that buttress public safety, including many working to prevent gun violence. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has poured cold water on federal funds for two high-speed rail projects this year, leaving advocates to hope that a plan to speed travelers between southern California and Las Vegas can demonstrate the U.S. can still complete projects with transportation technology common in Europe and Asia.

The ...Read more

A list of 14 states, 298 counties and 200 cities deemed immigration sanctuaries by the Trump administration has disappeared from a government website but continues to hang over the heads of officials who face threats of losing federal funding.

“We were placed on a list with many other sheriffs across the nation for no clear reason and no ...Read more

The use of the military to quell protests is something associated with dictators in foreign countries, and as of Saturday night, with a president of the United States.

When President Donald Trump federalized 2,000 members of the California National Guard, deploying them because of protests against federal immigration authorities, he sent a ...Read more