WASHINGTON (AP) — For several hours Friday, in the stillness before dawn, the Senate appeared to have finally figured out how to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security before it faced the longest partial shutdown in U. S. history. Senators handed House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. , their deal and headed for the airports, seemingly confident of success. Then it collapsed. Spectacularly. An incensed Johnson marched out of his office Friday afternoon. He angrily rebuked the plan that...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of American service members wounded in the Iran war has grown beyond 300, with more than two dozen troops injured this week from attacks on a Saudi air base. Iran fired six ballistic missiles and 29 drones at Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan air base in an attack Friday that injured at least 15 troops, including five seriously, according to two people briefed on the matter. U. S. officials initially reported that at least 10 U. S. troops were injured, including two...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The four astronauts making NASA’s next lunar leap bear little resemblance to the Apollo era. The Americans who blazed the trail to the moon more than half a century ago were white men chosen for their military test pilot experience. This first Artemis crew includes a woman, a person of color and a Canadian, products of a more diversified astronaut corps. None of them were alive during NASA’s storied Apollo program that sent 24 astronauts to the moon including...