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Four astronauts from the U.S., France, and Russia arrived at the ISS on Saturday for an eight- to nine-month mission, returning the station to full capacity after a January medical emergency cut a previous crew’s stay short.

SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, sending 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit.

The IDF carried out airstrikes a short time ago in the Khan Yunis area in Gaza.

A teenager jumped into action after seeing a child fall through the ice in Queens on Friday afternoon.

❄️ TRI-STATE AREA: A light snowfall is possible Sunday night into Monday, with minor accumulations expected. Forecast totals generally range from 1 to 2 inches across the New York City metro area, northeast New Jersey, and Long Island. Areas north of the city are expected to see lighter amounts.

Washington police say a suspected drunk driver was brought to a stop with a grappler after fleeing a traffic stop and driving the wrong way.

Tens of thousands of pro-Monarchist Iranians gathered in Munich, Germany, to protest the Iranian regime.

A group of terrorists emerged from a tunnel in northern Gaza and approached Israeli troops on the Israeli side of the ceasefire line earlier this evening, according to the military. Soldiers monitoring surveillance cameras spotted the terrorists exiting an underground site and entering a damaged building near forces from the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade stationed […]

SOUTHCOM announced it carried out a lethal strike on Friday against a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean, killing three narco-terrorists.

Two Palestinians suspected of attempting to infiltrate the settlement of Karmei Tzur have been captured. The suspects were spotted approaching the community that evening, prompting local security teams and IDF troops to launch a search to prevent a potential breach. According to the IDF, forces from the Etzion Regional Brigade, the Oketz canine unit, and […]

Colombian Aerospace and Naval Forces destroyed a clandestine shipyard near Bahía Hondita in Uribia, La Guajira, where semi-submersibles for the Clan del Golfo were being built. Authorities said the vessels were intended for cocaine trafficking to Europe.

AOC: “We are shocked at the President’s destruction of our relationship with our European allies, his threatening over Greenland is not a joke, it is not funny. It threatens the very trust of relationships that allow peace to exist.”

Sec. Rubio in Munich: “We, in America, have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline.”

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by the Kremlin with a lethal toxin derived from the skin of poison dart frogs, five European countries said Saturday. The foreign ministries of the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said analysis of samples from Navalny, who died two years ago, “have conclusively confirmed the presence […]

About 250,000 people demonstrated on Saturday against Iran’s government on the sidelines of a gathering of world leaders in Germany, police said, answering a call from Iran ’s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi for cranked-up international pressure on Tehran. Banging drums and chanting for regime change, the giant and boisterous rally in Munich was part […]

The International Space Station returned to full strength with Saturday’s arrival of four new astronauts to replace colleagues who bailed early because of health concerns. SpaceX delivered the U.S., French and Russian astronauts a day after launching them from Cape Canaveral. Last month’s medical evacuation was NASA’s first in 65 years of human spaceflight. One […]

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to intensify their joint “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran, including targeting Tehran’s oil exports to China, according to a report by Israel’s Channel 12. The understanding was reached during the leaders’ meeting at the White House earlier this week, where they discussed ways to tighten […]

The IDF foiled two separate drone-based weapons smuggling attempts along the Egypt border. In one incident, troops monitoring border surveillance systems identified a drone crossing into Israeli airspace and downed it. The drone was found to be carrying three assault rifles. In a separate operation, soldiers from the Paran Regional Brigade located a previously downed […]