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NASA has chosen Boeing and SpaceX to build the vehicles that will transport its astronauts to the International Space Station.

Mariela Castro, the daughter of President Raul Castro — and the niece of Fidel Castro — is making waves by voting “no” on a workers’ rights bill, saying it didn’t protect people with unconventional gender identities.

Four mathematicians were today awarded the Fields Medal, including Iranian Maryam Mirzakhani, the first female mathematician to be given the honor that’s often called math’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

An attacker wearing an Afghan military uniform opened fire at service members of the NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan on Tuesday.

A top White House adviser says any cease-fire agreement between Israel and Palestinians must include the demilitarization of Gaza.

Vice President Biden said Thursday that it appeared that the downing of the plane was not an accident, but that it had apparently been “blown out of the sky” in what he described as “truly a grave situation.”

Separatists in eastern Ukraine reportedly used a rocket-launching system in an attack Friday that a Ukrainian official says might have killed as many as 30 government troops.

In a letter to Congress, President Obama said he is sending up to 200 additional troops to Iraq to provide security for U.S. personnel already on the ground in the country.

Secretary of State John Kerry talked to Kurdish leaders in Irbil today, urging them to keep the autonomous region as part of Iraq. Kerry’s visit came as the Sunni extremist group ISIS says it has cemented control of Iraq’s largest oil refinery, and as sectarian divisions are threatening to pull Iraq apart.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that using a computer to implement an abstract idea does not make that invention eligible for a patent.