SpaceX has blasted off a crew of four private astronauts for the first-ever private spacewalk. A billionaire entrepreneur, a retired military fighter pilot and two SpaceX employees are using the company’s new spacesuits and a redesigned spacecraft for the mission which launched on Tuesday morning from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It is the riskiest private space mission so ...
Seemingly out of the blue Monday morning, supporters of former president Donald Trump began posting myriad AI-generated images depicting the Republican presidential nominee as a savior. Not of the American Dream or of Christianity, mind you, the normal targets of such praise. Instead, Trump was shown protecting ducks and kitty cats. If you are not a denizen of the right’s ...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has expressed support for loosening federal restrictions on marijuana, aligning himself with the Biden administration’s ongoing efforts to do exactly that. In a social media post Sunday, Trump also said he would vote “yes” on a Florida ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana for adults in his home state. “As President, we will continue to ...
When House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) visited former president Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year, one of his desired outcomes was to bolster his wavering leadership position. He didn’t exactly get what he wanted; soon after Johnson touted Trump’s support, the former president told reporters that Johnson’s fate was still up in the air. But Trump got what he ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s election police unit is investigating alleged fraud in signature gathering for the state’s upcoming abortion referendum in a move that critics say is designed to intimidate voters. In the past week, two people reported that an agent from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrived at their homes and asked them about petitions they had signed ...
NEW YORK — Justice Elena Kagan on Monday brushed aside concerns about whether lower-court judges could effectively enforce the Supreme Court’s new ethics rules, saying those on the federal bench are more than capable of holding justices to account. “I just think judges are not so afraid of us,” Kagan said. “I think there are plenty of judges around this ...
Some Republicans, including Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance, on Monday amplified the false and dehumanizing claim that immigrants in Ohio who came into the country during the Biden-Harris administration are injuring and eating Americans’ pets. The baseless and bizarre belief drew Republicans’ attention Monday after Vance — who has long claimed that immigrants are draining resources in towns like ...
Sen. Tommy Tuberville has blocked the promotion of an Army general who is a senior aide to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, people familiar with the matter said, threatening a confrontation between the Republican firebrand and the Pentagon just weeks before the presidential election while reviving a months-old furor over the military chief’s medical secrecy. Tuberville (Ala.) has frozen the nomination ...
North Carolina’s Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can have his name removed from election ballots in the key swing state, denying an appeal from the State Board of Elections that would have kept him on the ballot. Local election officials estimate that designing, printing and preparing new ballots without Kennedy’s name will delay the process ...
When Pennsylvanians vote by mail, they must seal their ballots inside secrecy envelopes and place them into outer envelopes that they are required to sign and date. The ballots must be received before 8 p.m. on Election Day. Local election workers track when ballots arrive. In recent elections, if a voter misdated or forgot to date the outside envelope, their ...