President Barack Obama is declaring a "new chapter" in U.S. relations with Burma, the former pariah state also known as Myanmar.
Several false starts and nearly $400 million in taxpayer funds later, a California space company is aiming in a matter of days to be the first private firm to send its own capsule to the International Space Station.
The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is moving ahead with plans to close dozens of mail processing centers, saying on Thursday it can no longer wait as Congress remains deadlocked over how to help.
The Pentagon says the U.S. will give Israel the extra $70 million that Jerusalem asked for this year for short-range missile defense.
Court records show a Miami college student intends to plead guilty to making threatening posts against President Barack Obama on Facebook.