Trump says renewed US campaign against Iran won’t last long

September 3, 2026 12:47 AM

Trump says renewed US campaign against Iran won’t last long

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the renewed U.S. campaign against Iran would not continue for “too long” after the biggest exchange of fire between Tehran and Washington since July. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that Iran was trying to build a rocket that drops mines and the U.S. had destroyed it. He also said Iran had been working to restore its radar and missile systems, which were also targeted in the U.S. strikes. “We took out all of the new equipment that the...

SpaceX Starship rocket explodes in setback to Musk’s Mars mission

June 20, 2025 10:31 AM

SpaceX Starship rocket explodes in setback to Musk’s Mars mission

SpaceX's massive Starship spacecraft exploded into a dramatic fireball during testing in Texas late on Wednesday, the latest in a series of setbacks for billionaire Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program. The explosion occurred around 11 p.m. local time while Starship was on a test stand at its Brownsville, Texas Starbase while preparing for the tenth test flight, SpaceX said in a post on Musk’s social-media platform X. The company attributed it to a "major anomaly" and said all personnel were sa...