Nasa veteran Butch Wilmore retires: Leaves agency months after record Starliner delay; logged 464 days in orbit over 3 missions

[ad_1] Astronaut Butch Wilmore (AP file photo) Nasa announced that veteran astronaut Butch Wilmore has retired from the agency, less than five months after returning from an unexpectedly prolonged mission to the International Space Station.Wilmore, 62, and fellow astronaut Suni Williams launched last summer as test pilots aboard Boeing’s first crewed Starliner flight. The mission, […]

Anaconda shooting: Montana manhunt intensifies for veteran accused after 4 killed; kin says suspect struggled with mental health issues

[ad_1] US Police continued scouring the rugged mountains of Montana on Saturday as the search for Michael Paul Brown, a 45-year-old military veteran accused of fatally shooting four people at The Owl Bar in Anaconda, entered its second day. Brown fled the scene in a white pickup truck, which was later abandoned, according to Lee […]

‘My laptop is a bomb’: US Air Force veteran makes midair threat; triggers emergency landing in Florida

[ad_1] US Air Force veteran makes mid-air threat (Image: @taj.maliktaylor) A domestic flight in the US was forced to make an emergency landing after a 27-year-old man, recently discharged from a psychiatric facility, allegedly claimed mid-air that his laptop was a bomb.The incident occurred on Allegiant air flight 1023, which had departed St Pete–Clearwater international […]

‘I feel betrayed’: US Marine veteran after father assaulted, arrested by masked agents; DHS secretary says ‘illegal alien’ currently in custody

[ad_1] Marine veteran Alejandro Barranco (AP) A United States Marine Corps veteran has said he feels “betrayed” after masked federal officials assaulted and arrested his father, as the man got caught up in one of the ongoing ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) workplace raids which advocates say have left immigrant communities “terrified and on edge.“Marine […]

Watch: First-known civilian detention in LA amid ICE protest turns out to be army veteran; says Marines treated him ‘very fairly’

[ad_1] Marcos Leao, center, walks past a checkpoint manned by Marines after he was briefly detained (Image credits: AP) Marines deployed by US President Donald Trump temporarily detained a civilian on Friday at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles, the first known incident of its kind amid ongoing protests over ICE raids, the US […]

Trump’s Push to Defund Harvard Prompts Clash Over Veteran Suicide Research

[ad_1] The Trump administration’s move to cancel a slew of federal contracts at Harvard University has sparked an internal clash over the impact on medical research intended to help veterans, including projects involving suicide prevention, toxic particle exposure and prostate cancer screening, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times. The dispute among officials […]

Albania elections: PM and right-wing veteran

[ad_1] TIRANA: Albanians vote for a new parliament on Sunday, with socialist Edi Rama hoping to be prime minister again, stopping right-wing veteran Sali Berisha from a return to power.Leftist Prime Minister Edi Rama, a former basketball player who went to art school in Paris, is seeking his fourth term in office on a pledge […]

Man who hijacked a small plane in Belize and was fatally shot was a US veteran | India News

[ad_1] MEXICO CITY: A US veteran was fatally shot after he hijacked a small passenger plane in Belize on Thursday, officials in Belize and the US have confirmed.After the plane carrying 14 passengers and two crew members landed safely, police in Belize identified the man as Akinyela Taylor.Chester Williams, Belize police commissioner, said that Taylor […]

Hudson Plane Crash: Who was the pilot of the helicopter that crashed into Hudson River? Navy SEALS veteran, a former celebrity bodyguard

[ad_1] The pilot of the doomed helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River has been identified as 36-year-old Sean Johnson. The pilot of the private helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday was identified as 36-year0old Sean Johnson, who was a Navy SEAL veteran and a former celebrity bodyguard. The pilot died along […]