In the beginning, the small group of Americans who aspired to become astronauts had to pass an isolation test. Spaceflight wasn’t going to be easy, and the country wanted people with tough minds.For his test, John Glenn sat at a desk in a dark, soundproofed room. He found some paper in the darkness, pulled a pencil out of his pocket, and spent the test writing some poems in silence. He walked out three hours later.
Environmental groups weigh in on whether they get the same sort of treatment.
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”“What brought it on?”“Friends,” said Mike. “I had a lot of friends.”— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also RisesLike Hemingway’s Mike Campbell, the Trump Organization is confronting troubles that accumulated gradually and have coalesced suddenly. And once again, friends are at the bottom of it.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office filed charges against the former president’s business on Thursday.
Today’s Supreme Court decision further weakening the Voting Rights Act affirmed that the only way Democrats can reverse the wave of restrictive voting laws in GOP-controlled states is to pass new federal voting rights by curtailing the Senate filibuster.Congressional action has long seemed the only realistic lever for Democrats to resist red states’ surge of voter-suppression laws, which are passing, as I’ve written, on an almost entirely party-line basis.
Nearly 25 percent of recent infections have been linked to Delta, up from 6 percent in early June.
Kagan accused her conservative colleagues of doing Congress’ work for them, saying “this Court has no right to remake” a key section of the Voting Rights Act.
The most reliable way to inflame the heart is to bother it with a virus. Many types of viruses can manage it—coxsackieviruses, flu viruses, herpesviruses, adenoviruses, even the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Some of these pathogens bust their way straight into cardiac tissue, damaging cells directly; others rile up the immune system so overzealously that the heart gets caught in the crossfire.
The ruling in Brnovich v. DNC could have implications for voting measures nationwide.
The Ethiopian military has withdrawn its forces from Mekelle, the capital of the war-torn Tigray region, after the government declared a ceasefire. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed denied reports his military was defeated by Tigrayan forces, and said he had successfully pacified the city. Ahmed, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, launched the offensive against Tigray separatists in November.
After the Biden administration launched airstrikes targeting an Iranian-backed militia in Syria and Iraq, military historian Andrew Bacevich says the United States needs to reassess its decades-long hostility toward Iran. “The demonization of Iran is now a well-established reality of our contemporary politics. It’s a mistake,” he says.
Donald Rumsfeld, considered the chief architect of the Iraq War, has died at the age of 88. As defense secretary for both Presidents George W. Bush and Gerald Ford, Rumsfeld presided, his critics say, over systemic torture, massacres of civilians and illegal wars. We look at Rumsfeld’s legacy with retired Colonel Andrew Bacevich, whose son was killed in Iraq. Bacevich is the president of the antiwar think tank the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
She says I stole it from her stillborn daughter.
Teacher advice on moving, math advancement, and IEPs.
Federal health officials are weighing how to implement the lessons they have learned from this pandemic to prepare for the next one.
“If you look at some of those old pictures of Oklahoma City, it’s the same exact scenes you’re seeing today in Florida.
Every plausible explanation for the tragedy in Surfside.
Forget the inflation scolds. Ignore the small-business Scrooges. There’s a very different story in the data.
The alleged “grave incident” in North Korea’s pandemic fight was not specified.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said incentives to get people vaccinated aren’t working.
Just as Americans began returning to life in public again, disaster struck the people of Champlain Towers South at home.
I’m not sure how to proceed.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank still expects rising inflation to subside in the coming months but underscored that he will be watching the data to see if that’s wrong.
A continued inflation spike could make it a lot harder for the president to push through trillions of dollars in additional federal spending.
Income growth has been relatively strong, particularly in the last couple of months, despite disappointing overall job growth.
It’s a stunning reversal for a brand that once lured the rich and famous willing to pay a premium to live in a building with Trump’s gilded name on it.
The figure will provide some relief to the White House after the April report, but it’s well short of the pace predicted by many economists earlier this year.
In the news today: More than half of the Republican members of the House of Representatives voted to continue honoring racist traitors. And in other news, almost all of those House Republicans voted against an investigation into racist traitors who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Failed human being Rudolph Giuliani was facing questions of corruption long before being added to Donald Trump’s advisory team. In 2017, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman wanted to know exactly what job the former New York City mayor had on the legal team of Turkish gold trader Reza Zarrab. Zarrab, an Iranian and Turkish national, was arrested on charges that he conspired to violate U.S. sanctions against Iran. In its most simple form, Zarrab reportedly used U.S.
Sisterhood and women supporting women is a thing and we’re all here for it. Simone Biles is headed back to the Olympics, her second one as the world’s most decorated gymnast but that’s not all: Biles will be joined by friend Jordan Chiles. This year’s 2021 Olympics will be Chiles’ first Olympics; Securing a spot on Team USA came as a proud moment not just for Chiles but Biles who supported the athlete as an older sister.