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In his first comments, the veteran actor tweeted Friday that he is "fully cooperating" with a probe of the "Rust" tragedy that left Halyna Hutchins dead and Joel Souza injured. Oct. 22, 2021, 4:54 PM WAT  /  Updated Oct. 22, 2021, 5:04 PM WAT Producer and actor Alec Baldwin on Friday said his "heart is broken" following the  fatal on-set shooting  of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and pledged to cooperate with law enforcement. In his first comments about Thursday's deadly incident on the set of his movie "Rust" in New Mexico, Baldwin said he's in contact with Hutchins' family. "There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours,"  Baldwin tweeted  Friday. "I'm fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred and I am in touch with her husband, offering my suppor

The US suffered a setback in the race with China and Russia to   develop hypersonic weapons   when its latest test failed, the Pentagon said in a statement Thursday. A booster stack, which is the rocket used to accelerate the projectile to hypersonic speeds, failed and the test of the projectile, the hypersonic glide body, could not proceed, the statement said. Because the rocket failed the Pentagon was not able to test the hypersonic glide body, which is the key component needed to develop a hypersonic weapon. Officials have started a review of the test, which took place Thursday at the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak, Alaska, to understand the cause of the booster failure. "Experiments and tests -- both successful and unsuccessful -- are the backbone of developing highly complex, critical technologies at tremendous speed, as the department is doing with hypersonic technologies," said Lt. Cdr. Tim Gorman, a Pentagon spokesman, in a statement. The Pentagon has made develo