The first commercial flight will be a science mission with the Italian Air Force. Next will come paying ticket holders who have been waiting years for their chance at weightlessness
Both President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are speaking hopefully of the likelihood of an agreement to raise the government’s debt limit and avert an economically chaotic federal default
He told reporters at Kathmandu’s airport that he will continue to climb as long as his body allows him. Supporters and family members gave him a hero’s welcome at the airport as he arrived by helicopter from Mount Everest
They also have a temporary restraining order banning them from getting too close to Madrid’s stadium and training facilities and from any soccer stadium between four hours before and four hours after a Spanish league game
It was not possible to independently verify whether Wagner’s pullout from the bombed-out city has begun, and the Ukrainian General Staff said heavy fighting was continuing inside the eastern city after a nine-month battle that killed tens of thousands of people
The 44-year-old governor formally launched his campaign Wednesday during an online conversation with Twitter CEO Elon Musk, but the audio stream crashed repeatedly
A special tribunal set up by the United Nations, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, said Thursday that Fulgence Kayishema was arrested a day earlier
At the same time that an El Niño is brewing, record ocean heat is bubbling up in the Atlantic, partly stoked by human-caused climate change, which will provide boosts of fuel for storms
Bannon, longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, pleaded not guilty last September following his indictment on state money laundering, conspiracy, fraud and other charges
Despite the progress, scientists still don’t know what causes it, why it only strikes some people, how to treat it -– or even how to best diagnose it. Better defining the condition is key for research to get those answers
The initiative is centered around four goals: increasing awareness and understanding of antisemitism, improving safety for Jewish communities, reversing the normalization of antisemitism and building solidarity across communities
A bigger supply of vaccines, more people with immunity and readier access to treatment point to fewer and less severe infections, but a false sense of security still poses a risk
‘I’m a political prisoner and like President Trump my only crime is opposing those who are destroying our country,’ Rhodes said during Thursday’s sentencing hearing
Along with a few other cities, Minneapolis has issued bans on chokeholds and neck restraints, and restrictions on no-knock warrants. But activist calls to defund the police, and to hold officers accountable have mostly failed
Video footage posted on social media showed a silver hatchback car heading straight for the gates at low speed across Whitehall, the main thoroughfare in London’s government district
The typhoon is the strongest to hit the territory of roughly 150,000 people since 2002. It briefly made landfall Wednesday night as a Category 4 storm
In 2021, the Venezuelan conductor signed a six-year contract with the European institution scheduled to run through the 2026-27 season
The rating agency Fitch has put the nation’s credit on ‘Rating Watch Negative,’ which amounts to a warning that it might downgrade the nations’ credit as a result of the debt ceiling impasse
Russia has put hurdles in the way of companies that want out, requiring approval by a government commission and in some cases from President Vladimir Putin himself, while imposing painful discounts and taxes on sale prices
Musk has promoted the platform as a haven for free expression, but it has been flooded with extremist views and hate speech since he bought it
The decision from the court on Thursday strips protections from wetlands that are isolated from larger bodies of water, saying that they are not covered by the Clean Water Act
The efforts to significantly roll back labor rules are largely led by Republican lawmakers in states like Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio, and in some cases run afoul of federal regulations
When the weapons would be deployed remains unknown, but Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the construction of storage facilities for the weapons in Belarus would be completed by July
The Biden administration on Thursday is announcing a total of $53 million in grants to Delaware and seven other states aimed at high-tech solutions to traffic congestion problems
The two Koreas, technically in a state of war, have no military reconnaissance satellites of their own and both are eager to possess them. The South Korean launch Thursday will likely assist its efforts to develop a space-based surveillance system
Sunday’s runoff election will decide between an increasingly authoritarian incumbent and a challenger who has pledged to restore democracy
“Robbing children of the chance to find their voices in literature is a violation of their right to free thought and free speech”, the poet wrote on Facebook in reaction to the news
