Colonizing the red planet is a ridiculous way to help humanity. There’s no place like home—unless you’re Elon Musk. A prototype of SpaceX’s Starship, which may someday send humans to Mars, is, according to Musk, likely MORE
The House of Representatives voted early Saturday morning to approve President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic aid package, a major step toward enacting the first legislative priority of the new administration as the devastating fallout from MORE
William “Cody” Anderson, 78, an iconic leader in Black radio in Philadelphia for decades, died Saturday, Feb. 20, of complications from COVID-19, his family said. Mr. Anderson was the cohost of Electric Magazine on Saturday MORE
In an analysis released Wednesday, the US Food and Drug Administration said the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine has met the requirements for emergency use authorization. The efficacy of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against MORE
The meeting is the latest indication that the GOP is keen on keeping Trump-era immigration politics and using them as a spear against Biden. Donald Trump and his allies are putting President Joe Biden’s sweeping MORE
George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures are partnering with Sports Illustrated Studios to produce a docuseries about sports journalist Jon Wertheim’s cover story detailing the decades-long abuse scandal in the athletic department at Ohio State University. Wertheim MORE
Welcome to Free Range, our new weekly open thread about animals; this week THE story is Texas and surrounding areas and its animal inhabitants who are cold and colder. What started as a rare cold MORE
By taking part in the riots at the U.S. Capitol, Pennsylvania officer Joseph W. Fischer did not just break the laws he was tasked with enforcing, the FBI says — he was allegedly at “the MORE
Three people were killed and two were injured in a shooting at a gun store in Louisiana on Saturday. Deputies were called to the scene at the Jefferson Gun Outlet in Metairie just before 3 MORE
President Biden used his first public encounter with America’s European allies to describe a new struggle between the West and the forces of autocracy, declaring that “America is back” while acknowledging that the past four MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers, and it is a happy one despite the usual bad and insane news. What are you talking about, you may ask? I refer to yesterday’s landing of the Mars Rover Perseverance MORE
Our discussion will open around 3 p.m.; The actual landing will happen 3:30ish…. And please, if you plan to bring food, NASA requires we eat only red foods or dry-as-desert foods or some mixture of MORE
TEXAS’S WEATHER and power crisis continued to leave millions shivering across the state Wednesday even as the state’s Republican leaders seemingly lied about the reasons for the disaster. They blamed the blackouts on the state’s supposed overreliance on MORE
On the surface, Mars presents itself as a world on the verge of inhospitality. Average temperatures that hover around negative 81 degrees. A thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere sometimes rendered opaque by planet-wide dust storms that can even MORE
“House members who prosecuted the case against Trump are being eyed for higher office.” The Democratic House members who prosecuted the case against former President Donald Trump last week say they’ve been laser-focused on his MORE
Happy Presidents Day, a great day to start our new Monday Free Chat dedicated to animals, pets or wild, and I’m celebrating animals back in the White House, especially the newest addition, a cat named MORE
On Saturday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made a strong case for convicting former President Donald Trump of inciting insurrection — less than half an hour after voting to acquit Trump of inciting insurrection “By MORE
“Incitement to resurrection,” anyone? Attorneys representing Donald Trump on Friday set about defending the former president from the charge of inciting the deadly U.S. Capitol riot. But some of their comments in Trump’s Senate impeachment trial amusingly MORE
Join News Views live today as the 2nd Impeachment of Donald Trump wraps up; the question we’re facing is “will the Senate, who serves as the jury, during an impeachment trial, vote to acquit or MORE
These are the times that try men and women’s souls. The summer soldier and sunshine patriot will shrink at this moment from the service of their cause and their country, but everyone who stands with MORE
“Jim Jones was a religious cult leader, Donald Trump is a political cult leader,” Speier told the Guardian. “As a victim of violence and of a cult leader, I am sensitive to conduct that smacks MORE
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on Wednesday night objected to the portrayal of an accidental phone call from then-President Donald Trump, plunging the Senate chamber into confusion on the second day of Trump’s impeachment trial. Rising MORE
Shares in North American cannabis firms were heading for new highs on Thursday, with Reddit-inspired retail investors betting they could beat the short-sellers and benefit from new legislation that is expected under U.S. President Joe MORE
The Louisiana GOP said it was ‘profoundly disappointed’ over Cassidy’s “yay” vote yesterday to the question of whether or not impeachment of a president no longer in office is Constitutional. Cassidy defended his decision Tuesday, MORE