The U. S. military launched a series of strikes against Iranian targets early Wednesday after three merchant ships were struck in the waters off Oman, pushing the Strait of Hormuz back onto center stage as NATO opened the second day of its summit in Turkey. U. S. Central Command said in a social media post that U. S. forces launched the strikes “to impose heavy costs for targeting and attacking commercial shipping crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway. ”NATO leaders are...

The U. S. military launched a series of strikes against Iranian targets early Wednesday after three merchant ships were struck in the waters off Oman, pushing the Strait of Hormuz back onto center stage as NATO opened the second day of its summit in Turkey. U. S. Central Command said in a social media post that U. S. forces launched the strikes “to impose heavy costs for targeting and attacking commercial shipping crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway. ”NATO leaders are...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A three-armed spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth. Northrop Grumman launched Katalyst Space Technologies’ Link spacecraft from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. The Pegasus rocket blasted off from the belly of a modified airplane, putting Link on course to reach and capture NASA’s Swift Observatory in about a month. Launched in 2004, Swift is sinking faster than ever because of recent...