The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded all flights nationwide because of communications issues at regional air traffic control centers

The disruption is already impacting weekend travel, with hundreds of flights on Saturday canceled.

The Nov. 13 directive instructs all departing aircraft to remain on the ground until further notice. The FAA said that due to frequency issues across the National Airspace System, it's halting departures.

Some flights were taking off over the ocean and in Alaska and Hawaii.

The audacious maneuver planned for Friday is a key step toward the company’s goal of making rockets fully reusable.

A booster malfunction has thwarted SpaceX’s attempt to recover its entire Starship back at the Texas launch pad. The first-stage booster malfunctioned several minutes after Friday's liftoff

SpaceX is launching Starship into orbit on its boldest test yet, a 22-hour flight that aims to recapture the entire rocket at the Texas pad

SpaceX launched the 15th uncrewed flight of its next-generation Starship spacecraft from Texas. The company hopes the mission will be the first round-trip rocket voyage to orbit and then back to the very spot where it left Earth.

More than 30 people were taken to the hospital, but none had critical injuries, the city's mayor said.

The more than 100 people on board were rescued in a ‘miracle on the Mississippi,’ said the Louisiana governor.

All riverboat passengers have been accounted for, officials said.

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Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he’s no longer considering a presidential run as he is making his pitch to become Senate majority leader.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen has emerged as a challenger to New York Sen. Chuck Schumer as the Democratic Party picks a Senate majority leader

Chuck Schumer faces a rare contested Senate leadership race as Chris Van Hollen pushes to abolish the filibuster and shake up Democratic strategy.

Maryland U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen said Thursday that he will run for Senate majority leader in the next Congress.

Survivors of a Brooklyn apartment building collapse are desperate to know what caused the catastrophe that killed relatives and neighbors and destroyed their homes. Residents of the collapsed

Crews continued searching for survivors Thursday, a day after a three-story apartment building collapsed in Brooklyn, killing at least eight people, including two children.

Firefighters have removed the bodies of three more people who died after a building collapsed in Brooklyn, bringing the death toll to five

Scores of firefighters and police officers wielding pickaxes and power saws clambered over the rubble pile overnight.

Pope Leo was greeted by massive crowds as he returned to the city where he served as bishop. NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports.

Pope Leo XIV celebrated a huge Mass for hundreds of thousands of pilgrims in Chiclayo, where he once served as bishop.

In Peru, where Leo XIV lived for two decades and became a citizen, the pope was met by President Keiko Fujimori, whose father’s policies he had protested.

Pope Leo XIV closed an emotional and politically charged visit to Argentina on Wednesday with an appeal for unity and reconciliation, offering a parting message of hope to his predecessor's polarized homeland.