Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a plea agreement for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 20 years. Mohammed has been charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder in the United States on 9/11. ...
Big Bird deserves to lose this time. In the past, whenever Republicans have tried to cut federal funding for public broadcasting, the eight-foot-two-inch-tall yellow bird has been trotted out as an exemplar of all that is good and necessary about public broadcasting, and the federal dollars ...
For more than 40 years, the Department of Defense has operated satellites that collect information about atmospheric and oceanic conditions. The microwave frequencies from the DOD satellites provide data that is processed by a group within the Navy and shared with scientists and weather forecasters who use it for different purposes, including for real-time hurricane forecasting. The Department of Defense announced that it would discontinue sharing the data “no later than July 31,” according to a statement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. The DOD will ...
Can you hear the canary in the economy's coal mine singing her heart out? You know that we are headed for trouble when some masses start buying groceries on the installment plan. That is the business model behind the popular "Buy Now, Pay Later" (BNPL) borrowing platforms — loans that ...
"Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?" President Trump shot back at a reporter during a Cabinet meeting. “This guy's been talked about for years. ... I mean, I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this, where we're having some of the greatest success ...
It's a little hot for a bowl of soup unless it's cucumber or gazpacho. We all now have an alphabet soup of issues presented to us, to live with and comprehend with each of our own beliefs about the what, when and why. A for agenda (s), B for budget, C a congress that has ghosted us all and more. The BIG PICTURE under the soup splatter is our increasingly unlivable planet with unhealthy AQI, diminished arable land and ever increasing amounts of as well as assortments of pollution leaving the default for hydration to be bottled water, when that is available. We don't have ...
