Indonesian navy divers say they have recovered one of the “black boxes” from the wreckage of Lion Air Flight JT-610, which crashed into the Java Sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta early Monday morning. The divers told local television reporters Thursday they found one of the plane’s recorders from the sea floor and […]
PENTAGON — President Donald Trump says as many as 15,000 U.S. troops could go to the Mexican border to stop caravans of Central American migrants, many of whom are seeking asylum, from crossing into the United States. “It’s a dangerous group of people,” the president said of the migrants after earlier calling them “very bad thugs […]
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured part of the wondrous Serpens Nebula, lit up by the star HBC 672. This young star casts a striking shadow — nicknamed the Bat Shadow — on the nebula behind it, revealing telltale signs of its otherwise invisible protoplanetary disc. The Serpens Nebula, located in the tail of the […]
JUNEAU, Alaska—The Alaska minimum wage will increase from $9.84 to $9.89 in 2019. Voters passed a ballot initiative in 2014 to raise the minimum wage by one dollar in both 2015 and 2016, and thereafter required the rate to be adjusted annually for inflation. Alaska Statute 23.10.065(a) requires the Alaska minimum wage to be adjusted […]