BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal prosecutors announced criminal charges Tuesday in the 2024 collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, accusing the Singapore-based operator of a ship and a key employee of making critical decisions that led to the ship crashing into the span and killing six people. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called it a “preventable tragedy of enormous consequence. ”The indictment names Synergy Marine Pte Ltd. , based in Singapore, and Synergy Maritime Pte Ltd...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told House lawmakers Tuesday that the ceasefire with Iran remains in effect despite recent exchanges of fire as he faces another round of bipartisan questioning over the costs and endgame of the war. He just finished testifying before the Senate, where one Democrat said he's worried “you’ve achieved a series of tactical successes but are on the verge of a strategic loss. ”Hegseth has so far softened his tone from previous congressional hearings as he the $1...

NEW YORK (AP) — Neil deGrasse Tyson has had a lifelong fantasy of being abducted by aliens. That's right, he actually wants to be taken. “I even picture the scenario in my head: I’m sitting out there alone, and a beam of light comes down,” he says. “It’s not a spacecraft that’s hovering over me. It’s just a beam of light from space. And I just get lifted up into that beam of light, and I appear in a new place. ”America’s favorite astrophysicist has turned that lifelong into...