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The blue sky over the Mojave Desert, untouched by the path of Mike Hughes' rocket. He had planned to launch himself in his own rocket Saturday in Amboy, Calif., but the Bureau of Land Management put up a significant hurdle to that effort.

Flat-Earther Delays Launch In His Homemade Rocket, Saying 'It's Not Easy'

Mike Hughes had planned to launch himself Saturday over the Mojave Desert in a quest to prove the world is flat. But he didn't count on a federal agency's rejection — or a significant tech breakdown.

Native Americans Tell Their Own Superhero Stories At Indigenous Comic Con

The second annual Indigenous Comic Con was held in Albuquerque, N.M., this month. It brought together indigenous comic book creators, game designers, actors and even an astronaut.

Howard Covington's book explores how policies spurred by Self-Help were able to help North Carolina evade the worst of the housing bubble collapse and how the credit union has transformed North Carolina communities

The Self-Help Credit Union Revolutionized How Big Banks Saw Low-Income Savers

When founders Martin Eakes and Bonnie Wright started the Center for Community Self-Help in 1980, they did so with the fundamental belief that low and...

The wreckage of a boat is seen along a sea wall in Yurihonjo in Japan's Akita Prefecture on Friday. A number of boats thought to be from North Korea — including some carrying dead bodies — have washed up the Japanese coast in recent weeks.

'Ghost Ships' Turn Up Along Japanese Coast, Likely From North Korea

A number of small wooden boats have washed ashore recently, including some with dead bodies on board. The Japan Coast Guard says it is stepping up its patrols to guard against "suspicious boats."

Trump Lobbies Senators For Tax Cuts

GOP senators are reworking parts of their tax plan, which could have a floor vote as early as Wednesday, to get wavering lawmakers on board.

For Jesmyn Ward, Writing Means Telling The 'Truth About The Place That I Live In'

Ward's National Book Award-winning novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, is set in a small town modeled after her own rural hometown. It centers on a biracial young boy confronting the South's racial legacy.

Do Doctors Need To Use Computers? One Physician's Case Highlights The Quandary

Now in her 80s, Anna Konopka has been practicing medicine for decades and has never used electronic records. After record-keeping complaints, she surrendered her license. The case wound up in court.

People at the Pyongyang Train Station in North Korea cheer as they watch the news broadcast announcing leader Kim Jong Un's order to test-fire the newly developed inter-continental ballistic missile Hwasong-15.

North Korea Fires Apparent ICBM In First Missile Test In 2 1/2 Months

This was North Korea's first missile launch since a test in mid-September. The Pentagon says it appears to be the third intercontinental ballistic missile Pyongyang has tested.

In this May 23, 2017, photo, budget director Mick Mulvaney holds up a copy of President Donald Trump's proposed fiscal 2018 federal budget as he speaks to members of the media in the Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. His $4.1 trillion plan for the budget year beginning Oct. 1 generally proposed deep cuts in safety net programs, including Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

States Prepare For 'Chaos' As Money Dries Up For Children's Health Insurance Program

Money has been running out for CHIP since Congress failed to reauthorize federal funding for the program when it expired in September.

In 1952, atomic scientists came together on the 10th anniversary of the first controlled nuclear fission chain reaction, which took place Dec. 2, 1942, at the University of Chicago.

75 Years Ago, Scientists Conducted An Unprecedented Nuclear Experiment

On Dec. 2, 1942, a group of scientists in Chicago created the first controlled, self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, which would prove essential to developing an atomic bomb a few years later.

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