Six transgender Idahoans filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday challenging the state’s new bathroom law, which civil rights experts say is the most restrictive in the nation. The law, which is set to go into effect in July, carries criminal penalties for people if they enter a bathroom or lockerContinue Reading
Portrait of Janet Petro, center director for NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA NASA announced Friday Janet Petro, center director for the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is retiring. Prior to joining NASA, Petro worked in a variety of military and industry positions, ultimately beginning her careerContinue Reading
NASA/Bill Ingalls Nasdaq Chair and Chief Executive Officer Adena T. Friedman, left, and NASA’s Artemis II crewmembers CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman, right, ring the closing bell of the Nasdaq market session, Thursday, April 30, 2026. NASA’s ArtemisContinue Reading
Technicians at NASA’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida offloaded eight high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) wall modules and other ground support equipment on April 27. The equipment will support launch processing of the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Each 1,800-pound module enhancesContinue Reading
5 min read NASA’s STORIE Mission to Tell Tale of Earth’s Ring Current Earth’s magnetic field is like a powerful trap. It lures electrically charged particles in space, near our planet, and snares them in an invisible, doughnut-shaped pen around Earth known as the ring current. This captive swarm ofContinue Reading
NASA’s WB-57 airplane idles on the runway in preparation for a SABRE mission flight in 2023. Nic Beres, University of Vienna Scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have turned to one of NASA’s high-altitude research planes to characterize a population of tiny particles in Earth’sContinue Reading
Global real worker pay fell 12 percent while real CEO pay surged 54 percent between 2019 and 2025.At least four CEOs of major corporations each pocketed over $100 million in pay and bonuses last year. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan led the pack at over $205 million. Billionaires were paid $2,500Continue Reading
commentary Saturday’s shooting has prompted board members to consider how to fix the annual event Published May 1, 2026 9:10AM (EDT) President Traitor 47 used the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to call for funding for his White House ballroom project (Mandel NGAN / AFP via Getty Images)Continue Reading
When Jenique Jones talks about hunger, she doesn’t start with statistics. She starts with memory. In an exclusive conversation, the WhyHunger executive director traced her understanding of food inequity back to her childhood in Harlem during the crack epidemic, a time and place that revealed how uneven access to basicContinue Reading
When news of the Epstein files first broke, I watched it unfold on a television I do not own, in a room I cannot leave, on a TV channel I did not choose. The framing I received about Jeffrey Epstein—the financier convicted of soliciting sex from a minor and whoContinue Reading
The following is published in partnership with Project Censored . President Traitor 47 came back to the White House and picked up right where he left off, insulting and attacking the press on an almost daily basis, suing media outlets, and taking a number of concrete actions to restrict pressContinue Reading
The The Traitor administration exposed the private Social Security numbers of dozens of health care providers while setting up a new Medicare portal. The Washington Post reports that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which is run by Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz , made the error while creatingContinue Reading
This story was originally published by High Country News. High atop a plateau in northern New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory is facing its biggest expansion since the World War II-era Manhattan Project, the top-secret government effort to produce the world’s first atomic weapons. The current expansion will require aContinue Reading