BEIJING — China’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that it had no information about a former Canadian diplomat detained in Beijing in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a leading Chinese executive.
WASHINGTON—NASA's first look at a tiny asteroid shows the space rock is more moist and studded with boulders than originally thought.
Scientists yesterday released the first morsels of data collected since their spacecraft, Osiris-Rex, hooked up last week with the asteroid Bennu, which only is about three blocks wide and weighs about 80 million tons.
MIAMI—The celebratory mob scene in the corner of the end zone broke out far from Ryan Tannehill, leaving him in the open field, running and screaming as he waved his arms.
Since he couldn't find anyone to hug, he flopped to the grass on his back—the job done and the game won.
“I collapsed—just the emotion of the whole thing,” Tannehill said.
TIJUANA, Mexico — A steady trickle of Central American migrants have been finding ways to climb over, tunnel under or slip through the U.S. border wall to plant their feet on U.S. soil and ask for asylum.
BEIJING — China raised the pressure on the United States and Canada as a bail hearing for a top Chinese technology executive was set to resume Monday in Vancouver, British Columbia.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Christmas turkey rocketed toward the International Space Station yesterday, along with cranberry sauce, candied yams, and the obligatory fruitcake.
The SpaceX booster missed its landing zone on the ground after lift-off, however, and ended up in the sea just a couple of miles offshore.
HOUSTON—George H.W. Bush, who shaped history as 41st president and patriarch of a family that occupied the White House for a dozen years, was going to his final rest today in Texas.
More than 11,000 people paid their respects to Bush as his casket lay in repose all night at a Houston church where his family worshipped.
BEIJING — China on Thursday demanded Canada release a Huawei Technologies executive who was arrested in a case that adds to technology tensions with Washington and threatens to complicate trade talks.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump promised on Twitter that tariffs would maximize the country’s economic heft and “MAKE AMERICA RICH AGAIN.”
Almost all economists say the president is wrong. That’s because tariffs are taxes on imports. They can cause higher prices, reduce trade among countries and hurt overall economic growth as a result.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived yesterday at the ancient asteroid Bennu—its first visitor in billions of years.
The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex pulled within 19 km of the diamond-shaped space rock.
It will get even closer in the days ahead and go into orbit around Bennu on Dec. 31.
