A woman was found dead in Missouri on Saturday after heavy rainfall battered parts of the state the previous day, forcing numerous emergency rescues and evacuations, including at a summer camp with more than 200 children. Several other states also faced the potential for severe thunderstorms and flash flooding as the slow moving storms moved southward. The National Weather Service said the severe weather impacted a wide region stretching from the Ozark Mountains in southern Missouri eastward 6...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is suggesting he has left standing orders for the U. S. military to destroy Iran “ at levels they've never seen before ” if Tehran follows through on its long-standing threats to kill him. But the U. S. government has no way to create an automatic, preauthorized “dead man’s switch” that would prompt immediate retaliation. Instead, if Trump were killed, the transfer of power to his successor is governed by the 25th Amendment and the Act of JD...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's experimental reusable rocket took off and safely landed in a first test flight Saturday as the country seeks to achieve the technology key to cut launch costs and compete in the global space market dominated by SpaceX. The RV-X rocket lifted off, hovered and moved horizontally before landing during its less than one-minute flight at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Noshiro Testing Center in northeastern Japan, which was livestreamed by the NVS, a group of space...