NASA says it expected space station garbage to burn up. The debris smashed into a Florida home instead The impact event defied NASA’s expectations about what can and cannot survive the reentry process — and it could have broader implications for future space debris disposal efforts. 04/17/2024 - 1:30 am | View Link
First day of historic Trump trial ends without any jurors being picked The historic hush-money trial of Donald Trump got underway Monday with the arduous process of selecting a jury to hear the case charging the former president with falsifying business records to stifle ... 04/15/2024 - 11:30 am | View Link
Trump's historic hush-money trial gets underway; 1st day ends without any jurors picked The first criminal trial of any former U.S. president began as Donald Trump vies to reclaim the White House and ended without a single juror being seated and more than a third dismissed. 04/15/2024 - 10:15 am | View Link
Israel is quiet on next steps against Iran -- and on which partners helped shoot down missiles Israeli leaders are crediting an international military coalition with thwarting Iran’s direct attack and calling the coordinated response a starting point for a “strategic alliance” of regional ... 04/14/2024 - 11:45 am | View Link
Iran launches dozens of drones toward Israel The drone attack late Saturday marked the first time Iran ever launched a full-scale military assault on Israel. 04/13/2024 - 10:45 am | View Link
Here at Mother Jones, we respect a wide spectrum of views when it comes to dogs. But a line must be drawn somewhere, and that somewhere is revealing that you killed your 14-month-old wirehair pointer for acting like a puppy.
That’s what South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem admitted to in graphic detail in her forthcoming book, which was obtained by the Guardian and has since sparked outrage even in Republican circles.
Known for its investigative reporting, El Faro has been referred to as “a breakthrough digital newspaper blazing an independent and ethical trail in Central America.”
So when reporters at the Salvadoran news outlet noticed their cellphones acting strange all of a sudden—batteries draining, unexplained overheating—they had a weird feeling that someone was accessing their messages.
Once again, there’s not much love lost between Bill Barr and the man he accused of betraying the Oval Office, Donald Trump. When the former attorney general confirmed this week that he would support the Republican presidential ticket in November, his former boss took the opportunity to mock Barr as “slow-moving” and “lazy.”
“That’s classic Trump,” Barr chuckled on Friday when CNN’s Kaitlin Collins asked about the insults.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Climate experts fear Donald Trump will follow a blueprint created by his allies to gut the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), disbanding its work on climate science and tailoring its operations to business interests.
Joe Biden’s presidency has increased the profile of the science-based federal agency but its future has been put in doubt if Trump wins a second term and at a time when climate impacts continue to worsen.
The plan to “break up NOAA is laid out in the Project 2025 document written by more than 350 right-wingers and helmed by the Heritage Foundation.
Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what could end up being its most consequential abortion decision since Dobbs. In a case pitting Idaho’s extreme abortion ban against a federal law known as EMTALA—that since 1986 has required hospitals to provide emergency care—conservative justices seemed to embrace the idea that states can deny crisis medical treatment to pregnant patients, even if doing so means those patients suffer catastrophic, life-altering injuries.