Cruise ship worker rescued 22 hours after going overboard

A cruise ship worker who went overboard and apparently treaded water for some 22 hours was in stable condition Monday, a day after being rescued by a crew from another passing cruise ship. According to the U.S. Coast Guard the 33-year-old crew member went overboard around 3:20 p.m. Saturday from the Norwegian Getaway, some 28 miles northwest of Pinar del Rio, Cuba.

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A cruise ship worker who went overboard and apparently treaded water for some 22 hours was in stable condition Monday, a day after being rescued by a crew from another passing cruise ship. According to the U.S. Coast Guard the 33-year-old crew member went overboard around 3:20 p.m. Saturday from the Norwegian Getaway, some 28 miles northwest of Pinar del Rio, Cuba.

Cruise ship worker stable after 22 hours in water

The Latest on a cruise ship worker who went overboard and was rescued by the crew of another cruise line : The Norwegian Cruise Line worker who went overboard in the waters off western Cuba is in stable condition after being found by a passing Carnival Cruise Line ship the next day. In a statement, Norwegian said the crew member will soon be reunited with friends and family.

US tourist dead after tour boat explodes in the Bahamas

An American tourist was killed and several other people were injured when a tour boat exploded in an exclusive district of the Bahamas, officials said. The watercraft was carrying 12 passengers - including 10 American tourists and two Bahamians - off the exclusive island of Exuma Saturday morning when there was an explosion aboard and the boat burst into flames, according to the US Coast Guard and local reports.

Vietnamese refugees who got a warm welcome in US puzzle at family separations, harsh talk

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Beneath the surface, a quiet superpower race for nuclear supremacy

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Concern over using US military to help border…

The Trump administration's request for the Pentagon to house migrants detained at the U.S. southern border and even help prosecute them is prompting concern about strains to the military. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who has made it his top priority to improve the military's fitness for combat, argues that the Pentagon is nonetheless obliged to provide help with border enforcement.

Scaramucci Socks It to John Kelly: Chief of Staff Scores a ‘Zero’

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Illegal Alien Protected by Sanctuary Policies Convicted in Savage Murder of Air Force Veteran

This week a Santa Barbara County jury found Victor Martinez, an illegal alien who had been previously convicted of sexual assault, guilty of first degree murder in the brutal 2015 sexual assault, torture, and murder of 64-year-old Air Force Veteran Marilyn Pharis. Though Pharis was murdered just weeks after Kate Steinle was shot and killed on a pier in San Francisco, and sanctuary policies also directly led to her murder, Pharis's case has never attracted the publicity Steinle's case did - and that's a shame.

Happy 50th to America’s biggest military airplane

One of the largest airplanes in the world -- a jet that forever changed America's military and airline industry -- is turning half a century old. When you see a C-5 Galaxy on the ground for the first time, the first thing that strikes you is... it's freakishly huge.

Blunt Praises Passage of Defense Funding Legislation

Several Missouri and national defense priorities stand to benefit with the overwhelming passage of the Fiscal Year-2019 Defense Appropriations bill. Senator Roy Blunt issued a statement of support, Thursday, praising passage of the bill by the full Appropriations Committee.

Rising number of women veterans reflects their increasing participation in the military

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not Real News: Map does not debunk global warming

In this March 10, 2018 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut and the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Hartford break through the ice in the Beaufort Sea in support of Ice Exercise 2018, a five-week exercise that allows the Navy to assess its operational readiness in the Arctic. On Friday, June 29, 2018, The Associated Press has found that stories circulating on the internet that a June 26, 2018 sea ice thickness map debunks global warming are untrue.