NASA has chosen Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin to develop the lander for one of its missions that will send astronauts back to the moon. The agency said in a Friday release the company will be responsible for designing, developing, testing and verifying its lander to meet NASA’s human landing system requirements for multiple expeditions to...
Former President Donald Trump is widening his lead over the rest of the Republican primary field, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll. In a hypothetical nine-way Republican presidential primary, Trump takes 58 percent support among GOP voters, adding 3 percentage points to his already-staggering lead since last month. His closest rival, Florida Gov. Ron...
Former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday that China is probably "rooting for default" while talks in Washington over a debt ceiling compromise have been cut short. “All of these world leaders and their teams are watching what’s happening in the United States. Is democracy going to last? Are they going to...
The FBI repeatedly misused a surveillance tool in searching for foreign intelligence to use in cases pertaining to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and 2020 racial justice protests, according to an April 2022 court order publicly released Friday. The order, which was released by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, is significantly redacted but reveals thousands...
Our legal system is not designed to foster safety but to impose punishment.
Rev. Al Sharpton said on Saturday that Jordan Neely was “screaming for help” when he was choked to death on a New York subway earlier this month. “Jordan was screaming for help,” Sharpton said, as he delivered a eulogy at Neely’s funeral in Harlem. “We keep criminalizing people with mental illness. People keep criminalizing people...
A sensational story about hotels in upstate New York throwing out homeless veterans in order to make room for migrants bused from New York City turned out to be false, according to a local news outlet. New York state lawmaker Brian Maher (R) told The Times-Union that the story was false after he had a...
American patients have faster access to a wider range of medicines than anyone else — at least for now. That’s because entrepreneurs and businesses in America continually harness the latest science to develop treatments and cures for life-threatening diseases like cancer and chronic conditions such as diabetes. However, there are looming threats from unelected bureaucrats...
The Chamber of Commerce, the largest business group in the nation, warned President Biden on Friday of the potentially disastrous economic effects of invoking the 14th Amendment to avoid the country defaulting on its debts. “It is the Chamber’s view that attempting to invoke so-called ‘powers’ under the 14th Amendment would be as economically calamitous as a...
Large lakes receded because of climate change at triple the rate previously thought, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. The study analyzed 1,972 of the largest lakes worldwide from 1992 to 2020. The waters analyzed in the study comprise about 95 percent of global lake water. Researchers said earlier analyses of...
A game of chicken is playing out in Congress, and millions of people who rely on government-sponsored food initiatives to stay alive food are being caught in the middle.
Currently, federal money accounts for 36% of the average state budget. If Uncle Sam stops writing checks, states will find themselves in a panic at best and an emergency at worst.
Dave Matthews says lawmakers have been able to convince the nation that the public is “powerless” against gun violence and the “vulnerability of innocent people in this country is a sacrifice we have to make if we want to be truly American.” “It’s so mind-bogglingly cruel. It’s insanity,” the Dave Matthews Band frontman said in an...
Polls released Friday from a Republican polling firm showed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) leading President Biden in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup in Georgia and Arizona, two critical swing states. The polls from Public Opinion Strategies found DeSantis narrowly leading Biden in both states, while the president maintained slight advantages over other potential 2024 opponents...
The Los Angeles Dodgers are facing backlash after disinviting an LGBTQ group from its annual Pride Night next month. The team announced on Wednesday that it would no longer be honoring The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, who describe themselves as “queer nuns,” with a Community Hero Award for their service to the LGBTQ community. “We are now...
The Promising Pathway Act, sponsored by Sens. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Kristen Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), aims to build on these successes by granting the FDA a new mechanism.
If artificial superintelligence inevitably leads to the extinction of its host species and then spreads throughout the universe, shouldn't we all be dead already? I put the question to Chat GPT-4.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that a former NFL player threatened him with execution on Twitter. “Who is this guy threatening to execute me? And how does he have so many followers?” Swalwell asked on Twitter, posting a direct message from an account that appears to belong to former San Francisco 49ers and Jacksonville Jaguars fullback...
Former President Trump on Friday urged Republican lawmakers to dig in on debt ceiling talks just as negotiations with the White House were paused over disagreements. "Republicans should not make a deal on the debt ceiling unless they get everything they want (Including the 'kitchen sink')," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "That's the way the...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), the first member of Congress to call for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to resign, doubled down on his request this week following new details about her health, saying, “it’s sad for anyone to see.” In an interview with MSNBC’s Alex Wagner, the progressive congressman applauded the California senator’s professional accomplishments but...
Whether you are a supporter or a skeptic, we can all agree that more data on how these sites work in the United States is needed.
A top GOP lawmaker negotiating a debt ceiling compromise with the White House on Friday said the talks were on “pause,” suggesting at least a temporary breakdown in the process as the clock ticks toward an imminent default. Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) emerged from a meeting with White House officials in the Capitol voicing frustration...
Chicago's homeless shelter system is struggling to meet the needs of incoming migrants as Texas officials expand their migrant busing policy. The lack of vacancy at shelters is pushing some migrants to sleep in police stations, according to a report by Reuters. Many of the people bused north are asylum seekers who were processed by...
The border closure through the Title 42 order was an easy and arguably unlawful answer to proponents of halting migration. But there is no longer a public health emergency that justifies the extreme measure of closing the border and denying rights to migrants.
A former U.S. attorney who previously investigated Mississippi’s misuse of welfare funds called former NFL star Brett Favre the “driving force” behind the scandal. “Brett Favre’s repeated demands for this grant money were certainly the driving force,” ex-U.S. Attorney Brad Pigott told Sports Illustrated for its in-depth investigation into Favre’s role in the scandal. Pigott was hired...
