Friday, August 14
President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would charge a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations because of opposition to U.S. control of Greenland. He said in a social media post that Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland would face the tariff, which would be raised to 25% on June 1 if a deal is not in place for "the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland" by the United States. Earlier Saturday, hundreds of people in Greenland's capital braved near-freezing temperatures, rain and icy streets to march in a rally in support of their own self-governance in the face of threats of an American takeover. The Greenlanders waved their red-and-white national flags and listened to traditional songs as they wa
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's giant new moon rocket headed to the launch pad Saturday in preparation for astronauts' first lunar fly-around in more than half a century.The out-and-back trip could blast off as early as February.The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket began its 1 mph (1.6 kph) creep from Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building at daybreak. The four-mile (six-kilometer) trek could take until nightfall.Thousands of space center workers and their families gathered in the predawn chill to witness the long-awaited event, delayed for years. They huddled together ahead of the Space Launch System rocket's exit from the building, built in the 1960s to accommodate the Saturn V rockets that sent 24 astronauts to the moon during the Apollo program. The cheering crowd was led by NASA's n
