Railfanning.org News Wire
WASHINGTON — President Bush today established a Presidential Emergency Board, hoping to keep the employees of nine Amtrak unions from striking.
The unions represent more than 6,000 of Amtrak’s non-operating employees who have been working on contracts that expired in 1999.
On Nov. 1, the National Mediation Board released Amtrak and the unions from mediation, [...]

HarpBlaster.com
SAN FRANCISCO – Career home run leader Barry Bonds was indicted today by a federal grand jury on four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice.
Bonds, 43, is charged with knowingly and willfully making false material statements, regarding his use of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing substances, while under oath during his [...]

By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2007 – Surge-supplied U.S. and Iraqi security forces have contributed to a marked decrease of insurgent-committed violence in eastern Baghdad, a senior U.S. military officer said here today.
“We have been effective, and we have seen violence significantly reduced as Iraqi security forces have taken a larger [...]

By Michael Bowman
Voice of America
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2007 — U.S. space agency officials are facing sharp questions from U.S. lawmakers over a five-year gap in American spaceflight capabilities between the planned 2010 retirement of the space shuttle fleet and the anticipated development of a successor vehicle.
President Bush has instructed NASA to retire the primary workhorse [...]

By Fred W. Baker III
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2007 – Success is possible in Iraq, a senior Army commander there said today based on progress he has seen since his recent return to the country.
Speaking to a group of Internet journalists and “bloggers” via telephone from Iraq, Army Brig. Gen. James C. Boozer [...]

By Brian Wagner
Voice of America
The crew of the space shuttle Discovery has returned to Earth after completing a more than two-week mission to the International Space Station.
Commander Pamela Melroy and the crew of the shuttle Discovery ended their mission by flying east across the United States before touching down. NASA’s Mission Control followed the shuttle [...]

By Carmen L. Gleason
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2007 – The Air Force has grounded its F-15 Eagle fleet following the crash of a Missouri Air National Guard F-15C on Nov. 2. However, F-15s assigned to North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Central Command Air Forces will be on alert and fly required [...]

Special to HarpBlaster.com News Wire
Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on Saturday, Nov. 10, as preparations for the STS-122 mission move forward. Atlantis is targeted to lift off Dec. 6 on an 11-day mission to the International Space Station.
The first motion of the [...]

Navy News Stand/Special to HarpBlaster.com
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Navy defense hit Notre Dame behind the line of scrimmage on the Fighting Irish’s two-point conversion attempt in triple overtime to give Navy a thrilling 46-44 victory in front of 80,795 fans at Notre Dame Stadium, Nov. 3.
The Navy win broke a 43-game losing streak to the [...]

Voice of America
Astronauts from the International Space Station and the U.S. space shuttle Discovery bid each other farewell Sunday just before the hatch between the two craft was closed in preparation for Discovery’s return to Earth.
The two spacecraft are scheduled to separate early Monday morning.
Returning to Earth aboard Discovery is astronaut Clayton Anderson who has [...]