Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for revealing the wonder of the evolution of the universe and discovering planets orbiting distant suns. Peebles, of Princeton University in the...

 An American F-16 fighter jet crashed and its pilot ejected to safety near the city of Trier in western Germany Tuesday, the German air force told AFP. The airman was "recovered with minor injuries" after crashing during a "routine training mission," the US Air Force base at nearby...

 Russia was not informed in advance by the United States or by Turkey about U.S. plans to pull troops back from Syria’s northeast border region ahead of a Turkish military operation, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. Russia, a close ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has emerged as...

The United States has added dozens of Chinese entities to a trading blacklist for their alleged involvement in a crackdown on ethnic Uighurs in China’s autonomous Xinjiang province.  A filing by the Commerce Department released Monday said the 28 entities are “implicated in human...