Obama departs on trip to Vietnam, Japan

File picture of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama walking to their limousine at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on March 25, 2016, upon their return from a four-day trip to Cuba and Argentina. AFP / NICHOLAS KAMM Andrews Air Force Base, United States: Barack Obama departed Saturday on a trip to Vietnam and Japan that will include the first visit to Hiroshima, site of the world's first nuclear attack, by a sitting US president.

Restored vintage World War II bomber certified to fly

A World War II aircraft that took nearly 16 years to restore might be flying over Kansas in the next few weeks after receiving a certificate of airworthiness from the Federal Aviation Administration. A nonprofit group called Doc's Friends on Friday officially accepted the FAA certificate for a B-29 bomber known as "Doc."

‘Tom Perez has guts’: US labor secretary being eyed as Clinton’s running mate

Perez has spent his years at the helm of the labor department fighting for paid leave, overtime pay and visiting workers on the ground - and he's not done yet On Tuesday night, the White House announced that the Obama administration had finalized a new rule that could potentially expand overtime benefits to 4.2 million more Americans. On Wednesday morning, Perez boarded Air Force Two and with Vice-President Joe Biden and flew to Columbus, Ohio, where they made the official public announcement inside Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams .

EgyptAir crash debris recovered

An engineer stands in front of a C-130 HAUP of the Hellenic Air Force, which took part and is on stand by, in the searching operation of the missing Egypt plane, at the military air base of Kastelli on the southern Greek island of Crete on Friday. CAIRO -- Search crews found human remains, luggage and seats from the crashed EgyptAir jetliner Friday but face a potentially more complex task in locating bigger pieces of wreckage and the black boxes vital to determining why the plane plunged into the Mediterranean.

Mashpee Police Receive Promotions, Recognition

Uniformed officers, along with police from other towns and members of the Mashpee Fire Rescue Department, lined the walls. Among several other positions, Chief Scott W. Carline said that his promotion as police chief-which took place in August, following former chief Rodney C. Collins' acceptance of the Mashpee Town Manager position-created an opening for the title of master officer.

US establishes first permanent military base in Israel

For the first time in history, the United States on Monday established an official, permanent military base in Israel: an air defense base in the heart of the Negev desert. Dozens of US Air Force soldiers will call home the new base, located inside the Israeli Air Force's Mashabim Air Base, west of the towns of Dimona and Yerucham.