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International Space Station crew member Sergey Ryzhikov captured this image of Lake Oroville and the Oroville Dam. To decrease reservoir levels and prevent a collapse of the emergency spillway following high amounts…

NASA will honor a request from the Trump administration and spend the next month studying how to return astronauts to the moon’s orbit. America’s storied space agency will study the feasibility of…

Winters in Canada get cold. Really, really cold. So people would have to be pretty desperate to walk across the wide expanses of deep snow separating Canada from the US. But that’s…

The full moon in February 2017, known as the snow moon, will start out a bit dimmer than an ordinary full moon because a penumbral eclipse occurs on the same night, Friday,…

A fire in the Flamanville nuclear power plant in northern France set off an explosion in the plant”s engine room Thursday, injuring dozens. Authorities have yet to ascertain the cause of the…

Two of the defendants in a child exploitation case in Rotherham, northern England, exclaimed the Islamic phrase “Allahu Akbar,” which translates into “Allah is the greatest,” in court Thursday as they were…

A US judge has issued a temporary nationwide block on Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban. The Seattle based judge ruled against government lawyers saying that there was a strong chance that a…

An Allentown couple is facing charges after prosecutors say a 13-year-old girl was rushed to the hospital after drinking at least 10 shots of vodka at their city home. Charles Younger, 38,…

U.S. President Donald Trump condemned what he called “professional anarchists” after two consecutive nights of violent protests on college campuses forced a pair of Trump supporters to cancel speaking engagements this week.…

The former substitute teacher who had sex with a student in Easton Cemetery wants to go on house arrest so she can undergo medical tests, according to her attorney. Kelly Aldinger has…

The United Arab Emirates’ foreign minister has said that US President Donald Trump’s travel ban on citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries, which has triggered global outrage, is not Islamophobic and does…

WASHINGTON-The administration of President Donald Trump issued the following release concerning Iran’s testing of a ballistic missile: Recent Iranian actions, including a provocative ballistic missile launch and an attack against a Saudi…