By Steven Donald Smith
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 2006 – North Korea’s claim that it conducted its first-ever nuclear test today constitutes a threat to international peace and security, President Bush said this morning at the White House.
“The United States condemns this provocative act,” he said. Bush said the U.S. is still working to [...]

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NEW YORK, Oct. 8 — On one night in 2002 or 2003, an allegedly inebriated Congressman Mark Foley showed up at the Congressional pages’ dorm after a 10 p.m. curfew and tried to gain entry, according to an account provided by two congressional sources. It is not known if the pages were ever aware that [...]

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NEW YORK, Oct. 7 — More than half of Americans-52 percent, including 29 percent of Republicans-believe that House Speaker Dennis Hastert was aware of Congressman Mark Foley’s inappropriate messages to teenage Congressional pages and tried to cover it up, according to the latest Newsweek Poll. Only 24 percent say he did not.
A plurality of Americans, [...]

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Oct. 7, 2006 – The U.S. Fleet Forces Band caught the mood of the people attending the christening of the USS George H.W. Bush today when it played Richard Rodger’s music for the World War II documentary “Victory at Sea.”
Many of the World War II veterans sprinkled [...]

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 — Expedition 14 completed its first full week solo on the International Space Station performing standard early mission checks, drills and some equipment troubleshooting.
Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin have been aboard the station for 19 days, while Flight Engineer Thomas Reiter of the European Space Agency is [...]

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 — NASA’s long-lived robotic rover Opportunity is beginning to explore layered rocks in cliffs ringing the massive Victoria crater on Mars.
While Opportunity spent its first week at the crater, NASA’s newest eye in the Martian sky photographed the rover and its surroundings from above. The level of detail in the photo from [...]

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GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 5 — NASA scientists and their international partners using the new Japanese Suzaku satellite have collected a startling new set of black hole observations, revealing details of twisted space and warped time never before seen with such precision.
The observations include clocking the speed of a black hole’s spin rate and measuring the [...]

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GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 5 — NASA and Italian scientists using Swift have for the first time determined what the particle jets streaming from black holes are made of.
Black hole particle jets are commonly seen in quasars and other celestial objects, shooting off at nearly light speed. According to the Swift team, these jets appear to [...]

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 — NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy.
The planet bonanza was uncovered during a Hubble survey called the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS). Hubble looked farther than has ever successfully been searched [...]

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GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 5 — NASA scientists using the Swift satellite have conducted the first complete census of galaxies with active, central black holes, a project that scanned the entire sky several times over a nine-month period.
The all-sky survey contains more than 200 supermassive black holes called Active Galactic Nuclei, or AGN, and provides a [...]