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Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults in December, should be torn down and replaced with an entirely new school, the task force charged with determining its future decided Friday night.The 28 members of the Sandy Hook Elementary Building Task Force, voting unanimously, rejected alternatives under which the current school would have been be...
Reporters were evacuated from the White House on Saturday morning after an overheated transformer drew fire trucks to the West Wing.The evacuation came after smoke was seen in a mechanical room, the Secret Service said. Multiple fire trucks raced to the building at about 7:15 a.m. Secret Service officers blocked off the entrances to the West Wing.“The transformer problem was quickly resolved. Elec...
Two NASA astronauts began a spacewalk aimed at troubleshooting an ammonia leak in the coolant system for one of the International Space Station's massive solar arrays on Saturday, just two days after the problem was detected.The operation ranks as one of the fastest turnarounds ever for a space station repair — a feat that impressed the orbital outpost's Canadian commander, Chris Hadfield. "The wh...
In this video, members of the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) and the Electrical Workers (IBEW) explain how they help keep the USS Midway, which is now a museum, up to date and running smoothly, preserving an important bit of American history.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Presidential elections start in Iowa. On Friday, Sen. Rand Paul put his stake in the ground for a possible run in 2016 by mocking the Obama administration and delivering a blistering critique of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's handling of the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. The administration has ...
