OK, where’s Spock? Uhura? Chekov and Sulu? Join us to watch William Shatner leave the soundstage; he says he’s most excited about coming back down. … . Where art meets reality, here on News Views. MORE
On Oct. 11, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott—who has opposed masking but came under fire from a Republican political rival recently for allegedly failing to push back hard enough on federal vaccine mandates—took a strong stand against vaccine mandates, issuing MORE
Happy Monday News Viewers; welcome to Free Range, our Monday Free Chat with an environmental bent. This week is “Animals in the News” which happens to be a regular feature in The Atlantic (but I MORE
Earth scientists at the turn of the century, Gavin Schmidt among them, were enthralled by a 56-million-year-old segment of geologic history known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). What most intrigued them was its resemblance to our MORE
You know which ones they are: Nineteen states have enacted 33 laws that make it harder for people to vote, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Fifteen states made it harder to apply for MORE
Happy Friday News Viewers, and unbelievably it’s the 40th week of the year, meaning we can see 2022 in the near distance. As I looked at political cartoons for last year at this time, I MORE
NASA chose the landing site of its life-hunting Perseverance Mars rover wisely. Perseverance touched down in February on the floor of the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater, which was picked primarily because previous observations by Mars orbiters MORE
It’s been nearly 16 months since Bubba Wallace was waiting out a rainstorm in his motorhome in the Talladega Superspeedway infield when NASCAR informed its only full-time Black driver that a noose had been found MORE
It has become a ubiquitous question in our politics: How close did Donald Trump come to pulling off an actual coup? Efforts to grapple with this have been trapped largely in the zone of wild MORE
Is it morning yet? Happy Monday all and yes, it’s morning, at least in this neck of the woods. . . . This is Free Range, our Free Chat about an entire range 😉 of MORE
A good mask is “the most important defense we have” against COVID, says aerosol expert Kimberly Prather, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California, San Diego. There are a number of national standards for MORE
In the newly released video, Officer Eric Pratt tells a distraught and sobbing Petito that witnesses had reported seeing Laundrie hit or “punch you.” He asks if it’s true, and she responds: “I guess, yeah, MORE
Good morning News Viewers and is it Happy Friday? Crappy Friday? Mad, Sad or Glad Friday? I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for a Zen, Let it Go, Kick Back and Relax, Smell MORE
A 96-year-old German woman who fled on Thursday before standing trial on charges of aiding and abetting murder in a Nazi concentration camp has been found by local authorities and will be brought before the MORE
The U.S. government is declaring the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker — and 22 more birds, fish and other species — extinct. It’s a rare move for wildlife officials to give up hope on a plant or animal, but MORE
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz is taking a page out of Donald Trump’s book, hiring a an attorney who has represented convicted billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. In 2020 Trump “poached” two Epstein attorneys, Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr. MORE
Happy Monday News Viewers and welcome to Free Range, our Monday Free Chat with an environmental bent; today I’m remembering the statement someone made that our planet should be called Ocean rather than Earth– 75% MORE
Happy Friday, news viewers, I’m in complete shock — it’s 50 degrees of cool here in the holler; I won’t say Summer is over because I don’t want to jinx this, but it feels fantastic MORE
Hi all, Join us for a live discussion of Jen and the WH Press Corps — watch Jen field the gotcha questions and communicate what this Biden Administration is working on……
In the two weeks since Gabby Petito went missing while on a cross-country trip with her boyfriend, her story has gained national attention. Petito’s case has made news headlines and gone viral online, with people everywhere trying to MORE
FBI resumes search of reserve and Laundrie family home as Gabby Petito’s fiancé Brian Laundrie remains missing Autopsy results have confirmed that the remains found Sunday in the Bridger-Teton National Forest are those of Gabby MORE
This is Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system in the world, right here in the middle of Kentucky. I bring up Mammoth Cave during our Free Range Free Chat because on 9/11, it was announced MORE
Gabrielle Petito and her fiancé Brian Laundrie left in July for a four-month, cross-country road trip. Two months into it, she disappeared. Now, he’s missing, too. Authorities on Sunday continued their searches for a Florida MORE
A sea of more than 650,000 white flags is lining the National Mall near the Washington monument in the nation’s capitol to represent the American lives lost so far to Covid-19. The outdoor art installation MORE
During the four years that Donald Trump served as president, he famously ripped off taxpayers for millions of dollars by hosting official business at his properties, where the grifter incarnate made sure to bill the people for everything from golf carts MORE