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8th person pleads in $30M NASA contract fraud

An eighth person pleaded guilty Thursday to his role in a $30 million fraud and bribery scheme that duped NASA into awarding contracts to companies that falsely claimed eligibility for preferences granted to minority-owned businesses. Michael Dunkel, 59, of Merritt Island, Fla., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Alexandria ...

  • Updated: 4:49 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
This image provided by NASA shows Carroll Whitley, NASA Engineering Technician, left, and Nicholas Karavolos, New Horizons Regional Education Center, HVAC student working on a Barany chair at the NASA Langley facility in Hampton, Va., Thursday May 23, 2013. Karavolos is one of 16 high school students from the area who helped design and build what's called a Barany Chair — which teaches pilots what it is like to be disoriented — under a program that was new to Langley this school year. (AP Photo/NASA)

Va. students build disorientation chair for NASA

Brandon Hogan smiled broadly on Thursday as he sat in a chair at NASA's Langley Research Center that spun around and around, intentionally making himself dizzy. But the high school senior in blue jeans and a green T-shirt wasn't goofing off on a facility tour: He was testing out a ...

  • Updated: 4:40 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Obama sketches more targeted anti-terror plan

Out with the "global war on terror." In with more narrowly targeted counterterrorism policies that persistently zero in on violent extremists at home and abroad. President Barack Obama on Thursday laid out a counterterrorism strategy for a post 9/11, post-war world that he said seeks to strike the right balance ...

  • Updated: 4:26 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Hostages, gunfire in Kiev counterterrorism drill

Gunshots, smoke and helicopters have all been part of a counterterrorism drill in the center of the Ukrainian capital aimed at training the security services to respond to hostage-takings. Thursday's drill was held on the premises of the Israeli Embassy in Kiev, though officials stressed that the embassy faces no ...

  • Updated: 9:12 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Solar plane completes 2nd leg of trip in Texas

A solar-powered plane has landed in Texas, completing the second leg of a trip across the United States. The Solar Impulse is making the first attempt by a solar airplane capable of flying day and night without fuel to fly across the U.S. The plane landed early Thursday at Dallas-Fort ...

  • Updated: 8:15 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
Solar Impulse, piloted by André Borschberg, takes flight during the second leg of the 2013 Across America mission, at dawn, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, from Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. The solar powered aircraft is scheduled to land at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Thursday May 23. The plane's creators, Bertrand Piccard and Borschberg, said the trip is the first attempt by a solar airplane capable of flying day and night without fuel to fly across America. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Solar plane completes 2nd leg of trip in Texas

A solar-powered plane has landed in Texas, completing the second leg of a trip across the United States. The Solar Impulse is making the first attempt by a solar airplane capable of flying day and night without fuel to fly across the U.S. The plane landed early Thursday at Dallas-Fort ...

  • Updated: 7:39 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

AP Weekly News Calendar

?Thursday, May 23: JERUSALEM — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. JERUSALEM — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. JERUSALEM — British Foreign Secretary William Hague meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. RAMALLAH, West Bank — British ...

  • Updated: 10:56 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
FILE - In this May 21, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. The U.S. will refocus its attention on homegrown terror threats against Americans, President Barack Obama will say in a Thursday speech that is forecast as skimpy on any new sweeping policies. The move reflects the global fragmentation of al-Qaida’s top leaders as the U.S. tries to safeguard against attacks like last month’s deadly Boston Marathon bombings. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

4 Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes

The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama in which he plans to pledge more ...

  • Updated: 10:44 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Am. Samoa to keep flier miles of govt travelers

American Samoa plans to take away frequent flier miles from government workers who travel on behalf of the U.S. territory and use the loyalty points to help medical patients and students travel off the islands when necessary. Hawaiian Airlines agreed to the plan that takes effect on June 1, American ...

  • Updated: 9:44 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

US soldier accused of secretly taping naked women

The U.S. Army said a soldier has been charged with secretly photographing and videotaping at least a dozen women at the U.S. Military Academy, including in a bathroom. Wednesday's announcement came as members of a congressional panel angry over the growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the military took a ...

  • Updated: 7:54 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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