WASHINGTON (AP) The United States has confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told the Air and Space Cyber Conference in Maryland on Monday that the U.S. has fielded on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action. Meink...

Children's National Hospital in D.C. is ranked among the nation's best children's hospital, according to U.S. News and World Report.

LONDON (AP) An English judge issued a scathing report Tuesday blaming dysfunctional management and a complete failure at all levels to protect babies at the hospital where neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies. The inquiry into baby deaths found the Countess of Chester Hospital could have saved some newborns from...

LONDON (AP) Judge blames UK hospital for “complete failure” to protect babies after nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of 7 murders.

MANZINI, Eswatini (AP) Soldiers in the African nation of Eswatini accidentally shot two U.S. government personnel last week, the country’s government said. The U.S. personnel were shot during an anti-smuggling operation by the Eswatini army in a rural region in the northeast of the country late Friday, Eswatini’s government said in a statement late...

NEW YORK (AP) Quentin Tarantino has stepped back from directing in recent years, but he continues to build upon his career as an author. The upcoming spinoff from his Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood will be accompanied by Tarantino’s novelization of the new film. The Oscar-winning filmmaker’s second novelization, The Adventures of...

HONG KONG (AP) As the rapid development of artificial intelligence triggers a renewed debate about its risks, the United States and China keep racing to develop increasingly powerful models even as they express their own concerns. The U.S. has outpaced China and other countries for years in AI model capabilities, research, citations and other...

DAYTON, Minn. (AP) DAYTON, Minn. (AP) Forgent Power Solutions Inc. (FPS) on Tuesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income of $53.3 million. On a per-share basis, the Dayton, Minnesota-based company said it had profit of 21 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 25 cents per share. The results topped Wall...

BRUSSELS (AP) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will deliver a major state of the European Union speech on Wednesday setting out her priorities for the next year and her vision for tackling the challenges faced by the worlds biggest trading bloc. The content of von der Leyen s address to the European...

When someone says theyre retiring because they hit their number, my alarm bells go off because its often a signal that the retirement plan isnt as holistic or risk-conscious as it should be. Here are my major objections. Back-of-the-envelope planning Toooften, people use a simple heuristic like the 4% guideline to determine their portfolios viability....

WASHINGTON (AP) A nonprofit run by Black federal lawmakers launched a multimillion-dollar effort Tuesday to engage lower-propensity voters in key districts in the midterm elections, following years of dissatisfaction over traditional efforts to reach such voters. The Congressional Black Caucus Institutes SO VOTE campaign will seek to register and mobilize ...

A Houthi official said Tuesday that Saudi warplanes struck Yemen, killing three people, including two children, while Human Rights Watch accused the Houthi rebels of possible war crimes with its attacks on commercial vessels. The renewed fighting in Yemen is endangering civilians and threatening shipping through the Red Sea, a route that has become more...

TOKYO (AP) Japan’s air force lost contact on Tuesday with one of its long-distance surveillance drones after it went missing during a flight off the country’s northwestern coast. There was no immediate information as to what the mission of the uncrewed RQ-4B aircraft, also known as Global Hawk, was. The Air Self-Defense Force said...

D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto is seeking answers from D.C.'s police department about its use of Flock cameras by Thursday, citing concerns about safeguards and potential misuse.

The land on which a Fauquier County winery in Virginia stands nowused to be a top-secret military installation outside of D.C.

The Montgomery County Council returns from recess Tuesday with plans for new tax credits and a decision on the future of the countys solid waste system.

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) NATO fighter jets shot down a drone that entered Lithuanian airspace overnight, officials said Tuesday, less than a day after NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said that strikes close to the alliance’s territory would drive the trans-Atlantic organization to increase its support for Kyiv. The drone was downed near the village of...

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2026. There are 107 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 15, 1963, four Black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen were eventually convicted for...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) A major inquiry into the case of New Zealand man Tom Phillips, who hid his children in dense forest for years before he died in a police shootout, has criticized officials for not taking seriously enough the harms and risks to the children early in the saga of their disappearance....

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) A major outage hit parts of the Dutch railway system early Tuesday and the company that maintains the nation’s rail infrastructure said it was treating the cause as possible sabotage. Materials deliberately placed on the tracks have been found at several locations. This is causing track-circuit failures. It appears to...

BAGHDAD (AP) Two deadlines are looming for Iraq at the end of the month: the end of a decades-long U.S. military presence and the disarmament of non-state armed groups. The U.S. withdrawal is underway, and officials say the hundreds of troops remaining in northern Iraq will be out by the Sept. 30 deadline. The...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) A predominantly Muslim region in the southern Philippines held its first elections for a regional parliament Monday and Tuesday following years of delays, moving it closer to self-rule after decades of insurgency and violence. Officials said turnout was over 80%, even as five people were killed in election-related violence in the...

PARIS (AP) As Paris emerges from months of oppressive heat, cooler autumn temperatures are welcomed back like a long-lost friend. But images of France’s hottest summer remain etched in memories and in the artwork of illustrator Marina Antonova. Paris is admired worldwide for aesthetic beauty, but the city kept hitting the news for...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Brazils Supreme Court is in the throes of an unprecedented crisis. Sessions are being canceled. Justices are overruling one anothers decisions. And suspicions of graft, political bias and police interference loom over several of its members ahead of the country’s presidential election in October. The justices at the heart of...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) So many people seemed to be focused on Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, and how the two-time MVP’s surgically repaired left knee would hold up in Kansas City’s season opener against the Broncos, that they forgot all about Kenneth Walker III. The reigning Super Bowl MVP won’t be surprising anyone else...