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By Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.comCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Shrinking government budgets, combined with a growing reliance on space assets by the United States — especially by its military — are putting the country in an undefended position, Gen. William Shelton, commander of U.S. Air Force Space Command, said Tuesday.Every U.S. military action depends on space capabilities such as satellite-based ...
Nearly a thousand of Newark high schoolers walked out of their classes Tuesday to protest budget cuts that include teacher layoffs, school closures and hits to after-school programs.Students from half a dozen Newark schools walked out of class at noon chanting “Stand up, fight back.” They marched to Rutgers Law School, where the State Assembly was holding hearings on the proposed budget.Chris Chri...
At least 14 people were hurt Tuesday in a stabbing spree at a Texas community college apparently carried out by a student who was later taken into custody, authorities said.At least two victims were in critical condition. It was not immediately clear how severe the other injuries were. The stabbing happened at the CyFair campus of Lone Star College, in the Houston suburb of Cypress.NBC's Houston a...
Senate Democrats are setting the stage for a vote on new gun laws later this week as two key senators on Tuesday said they were close to announcing a compromise bill to expand background checks to firearms sales at gun shows and on the Internet.Sen. Pat Toomey, a conservative Pennsylvania Republican, announced he plans to appear Wednesday with West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who holds a...
Four-year-old boys in different states were involved in two separate shooting incidents in the last four days, with tragic results.On Saturday, a Tennessee boy discharged a pistol at a sheriff's deputy's wife, killing her instantly. On Monday, a New Jersey toddler killed a 6-year-old neighbor after a rifle was fired at his head.The Tennessee incident occurred during a family cookout at the home of...
Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey is close to a deal with Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia on background checks for gun show and Internet gun sales, his office said Tuesday night. The two are planning a joint press conference for Wednesday morning.A Toomey spokesperson on Tuesday told NBC News that the two senators have agreed on all but the final details of a compromise.Manchin ...
Four different branches of the U.S. military are spending millions of dollars to equip troops with combat uniforms in seven different but similar camouflage patterns, says the Government Accountability Office, wasting money and potentially exposing some troops to increased risk on the battlefield.That’s one of the findings in the GAO’s latest report on government waste, its third annual report on ...
It has an ominous sounding name: the Master Death File. The Obama administration will urge Congress to restrict access to it as part of a package of recommendations for reducing the fastest growing type of tax fraud, according to an official familiar with the proposals. Since 1980, the Social Security Administration has aggregated data on Americans who die, updating its list every week. The Master...
LITTLETON, N.H. - A New Hampshire jury on Tuesday found Exxon Mobil liable for $236.4 million in a civil lawsuit that charged the oil company had polluted groundwater in the state with a gasoline additive used to reduce smog in the 1970s and 1980s.Following a three-month trial, jurors deliberated less than two hours before finding that the world's largest publicly traded oil company acted negli...
A couple who allegedly abducted their two young sons from Florida fled to Cuba, which announced Tuesday that it will return the family to the United States.Cuban authorities confirmed that Joshua Hakken, 35, and Sharyn Hakken, 34, arrived in the island nation in their sailboat the Salty Paw on Sunday. They notified the U.S. the next day and decided to turn over the couple and their kids on Tuesday...
