VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday. Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA’s early astronaut corps. But he wasn’t picked for the 1963 […]
America’s first Black astronaut candidate finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday. Source link
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is shaping up to be quite the puzzle for his rivals in the campaign for the White House. Former President Donald Trump calls him a “Democrat plant,” saying Mr. Kennedy’s platform looks like what any other liberal Democrat would embrace. Democratic officials, though, reject him as a MAGA-style disruptor whose campaign […]
There has been a pro-Palestinian encampment on MIT’s campus for the past two weeks. This afternoon, MIT’s President Sally Kornbluth posted a statement announcing that the camp will have to come to a close. She gave protesters until 2:30 pm today to vacate the camp. Kornbluth cited several reasons including the safety of protesters, the […]
UNITED NATIONS — Russia has circulated a U.N. resolution calling on all countries to take urgent action to prevent putting weapons in outer space “for all time” a week after it vetoed a U.S.-Japan resolution to stop an arms race in space. The Russian draft resolution, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, goes further than […]
GUERNSEY, Channel Islands — While the futuristic political thriller “Civil War” plays in theaters and generates discussion across the United States, an organization promoting the breakup of the United Kingdom has suffered its latest blow. Scotland‘s First Minister Humza Yousaf, 39, who also heads the independence-focused Scottish National Party, or SNP, resigned this week, making […]
A recent trend on college campuses is to install “safe spaces,” places where students — or certain identity-group subsets of students — can go to feel safe. These safe spaces are exclusionary by design; they protect students by insulating them. In extreme cases, safe spaces have been deemed to cover entire campuses, leading to the […]
UNITED NATIONS — Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space. The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 13 in favor, Russia opposed and China abstaining. Russia dismissed the measure as politicized and said […]
COLOGNE, Germany — For the past year, five fit, academically superior men and women have been spun in centrifuges, submerged for hours, deprived temporarily of oxygen, taught to camp in the snow, and schooled in physiology, anatomy, astronomy, meteorology, robotics, and Russian. On Monday, the five Europeans and an Australian graduated from basic training with […]
Homeland Security released the illegal immigrant accused of killing Laken Riley into the U.S. because it lacked the detention space, according to his confidential immigration file. Sen. Josh Hawley, Missouri Republican, read key parts of the file into the record at a Senate hearing Thursday. Jose Ibarra, the man charged with the Feb. 22 slaying, […]
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