Tuesday’s launch of an unmanned cargo ship to the International Space Station by a private company was canceled shortly before lift-off from the U.S. spaceport in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida. The countdown for the launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was halted with just over one minute left due an unexpected technical problem. […]
Jury selection for the trial of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is underway. Jurors are being selected from about 1,200 people at the federal court in Boston, Massachusetts. Twelve jurors and six alternates will be selected. Tsarnaev sat at a table in the jury assembly room with his lawyers. He faces the death penalty […]
North Korea has called on the United States to apologize for implicating Pyongyang in the hacking of Sony Pictures and threatened to fight back in a variety of ways, including cyberwarfare. The National Defense Commission for Pyongyang said in state media late Sunday that the U.S. government was wrong to blame North Korea for the […]
The gunman who shot dead two New York City police officers had a history of violence and mental illness, according to a top police official. Ismayyil Brinsley, 28, shot and killed officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos as they sat in their patrol car Saturday in Brooklyn. Brinsley then fled into a nearby subway station […]