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Las Vegas women’s rally to kick off voter registration effort

While scores of people throughout the U.S. march on Saturday, Las Vegas will host a rally on Sunday — the official one-year anniversary of the Women’s March — to kick off a nationwide voter registration tour dubbed #PowerToThePolls.

Border wall prototypes pass testing by U.S. commandos

Recent assaults by tactical teams on prototypes of President Donald Trump’s proposed wall with Mexico indicate their imposing heights should stop border crossers, a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the rigorous assessment told The Associated Press.

Arizona assures Grand Canyon will remain open if shutdown ensues

Arizona officials on Friday guaranteed that Grand Canyon National Park will remain in full operation if Congress fails to pass a budget and a government shutdown ensues.

NASA silent after bumping astronaut off space station mission

NASA has bumped an astronaut off an upcoming spaceflight, a rare move for the space agency so close to launch. Astronaut Jeanette Epps was supposed to rocket away in early June, and would have been the first African-American to live on the International Space Station.

 
Delta Air Lines imposes new rules for onboard service animals

Delta Air Lines will soon require owners of service and support animals to provide more information before their animal can fly in the passenger cabin, including an assurance that it’s trained to behave itself.

 
Nuns protest pipeline through cornfield on religious grounds

An order of nuns known as the Adorers of the Blood of Christ brought their fight to stop a natural gas pipeline project on their rural Pennsylvania property to a federal appeals court Friday.

Supreme Court to decide legality of Trump’s travel ban

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide the legality of the latest version of President Donald Trump’s ban on travel to the United States by residents of six majority-Muslim countries.

 
Last-minute efforts fail to stop government shutdown

Despite last-minute efforts to forge a compromise, Senate Democrats blocked a stopgap spending bill Friday that punctuated President Donald Trump’s first year in office with a government shutdown.