JOHN GARAMENDI

Silicon Valley investors behind a secretive $800 million land-buying spree got off to a rocky start with the voters they need to build a green new city in Northern California.

Taiwan is high on the summer travel list for U.S. members of Congress on their August recess this year.

China has announced more military drills around Taiwan as the self-governing island’s president met with another U.S. congressional delegation.

Congress has bestowed its highest honor on merchant mariners who fought in World War II, almost eight decades after the conflict in which more than 8,000 of them were killed.

For 50 years the Minuteman missile has been armed and ready, day and night, for nuclear war on a moment’s notice.