The age of the solar sail is arriving sooner than expected
A working solar sail system creates a range of possibilities for cheap planetary missions.
A working solar sail system creates a range of possibilities for cheap planetary missions.
Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan on Sunday called on the international community to use its “political leverage” to compel Israel to let more aid into Gaza and bring an end to the ongoing war. In a pre-recorded interview on CBS News's "Face the Nation," moderator Margaret Brennan noted that President Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister...
How long it will take and how much it will cost, however, is far from clear.
‘Saturday Night Live’ poked fun at parents’ conflicted responses to their students’ participation in college protests in the cold open this weekend. The sketch centered on three parents in an NY1 radio broadcast interview, in which they expressed concern about their student's participation. “Well, for me, it's been tough,” one parent said on the talk...
The protests afflicting Yale and many of its peer institutions are permeated by a totalizing, illiberal ideology that demonizes America and urges a complete tear-down of all of our systems.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet unanimously voted on Sunday to close the Al Jazeera broadcaster in Israel, the prime minister said on X. “The government headed by me unanimously decided: the incitement channel Al Jazeera will be closed in Israel,” Netanyahu said in a statement on Sunday. Al Jazeera has denied inciting against Israel,...
Sunday marks six months until Election Day 2024, when voters will go to the polls to decide the next president. The decision will likely be a 2020 rematch, with incumbent President Biden and former President Trump on the ticket on Tuesday, November 5. The two have been polling roughly neck and neck, indicating a very...
More than a dozen Republican-led states have sued the Biden administration over new Title IX regulations that add protections for transgender students, setting up a legal battle with the White House over enforcement of the decades-old civil rights law and increasing the likelihood that the measures will be blocked in court before taking effect this summer. ...
Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown is under fire from Democrats for 2022 remarks in which he expressed support for plans to store federal nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain. Nevada lawmakers from both parties have strongly resisted a federal plan to turn the isolated southwest Nevada mountain — about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will face a test this summer with the Democratic National Convention, which protesters of the Biden administration’s handling of Israel’s war with Hamas are already targeting. The success of the convention could provide a boost to Pritzker, a two-term governor seen as a future candidate for...
Republican senators say South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's (R) viability as a vice presidential candidate has gone up in smoke after she admitted to shooting a 14-month-old puppy, and they are looking to other contenders to round out former President Trump’s ticket. Republican lawmakers who have spoken to Trump say he will be “strategic” in...
Instead, the court should keep it simple, treat the Trump immunity decision as the easy “non-official” electioneering case that it is, and avoid making a definitive, complicated and time-consuming ruling on presidential immunity for other circumstances.
State police officers arrested around 25 pro-Palestine protestors at the University of Virginia (UVa.) on Saturday. Saturday was the fifth day of the ongoing protests in Charlottesville, Va., where calls for the school to divest from Israel continued. A group called UVA Encampment for Gaza called for the school to disclose all investments and refrain...
Former President Trump and the Republican National Committee (RNC) raised over $76 million last month, according to a campaign official. Trump’s advisers, Susie Wiles, Chris LaCivita and Tony Fabrizio, shared that the former president’s political operation is projected to have raked in $76.2 million in April, the official confirmed. The expected haul, first reported by...
The D.C. Court of Appeals has temporarily suspended the law license of former President Trump's ex-lawyer following a similar order made in late March by a California State Bar Court. Former Trump attorney John Eastman’s license is suspended in D.C. pending a final disposition in the California court proceedings, chief judge of the D.C. Court...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against a Texas prison agency for allegedly denying religious accommodation to an employee over wearing a head covering. Franches Spears, who was a records clerk within the agency’s Pam Lychner State Jail near Humble, Texas, was first put on leave with pay and later terminated after wearing...
Actor Jeff Daniels said he hopes the 2024 general election voters will ultimately choose President Biden amid what he called the ongoing “war on democracy.” The "The Newsroom" actor stated that former President Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, “talks down” to Midwestern residents and that those voters in the “middle” are “watching” the GOP “destroy...
The political tension around the ever-growing pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses will likely be the focus of this week’s Sunday news shows. Two notable instances of violence breaking out at campuses amid the protests occurred Tuesday at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), when both the New York Police Department (NYPD)...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s rising profile is raising the question of whether he could appear on a debate stage with President Biden and Donald Trump — and what impact that could have on the presidential race. It’s not yet clear if Kennedy, who has seen scattered polling throughout his candidacy, will even be able to...