Former NASA astronaut José Hernández said Monday that travel to Mars is “a good 15 years away.” “As I’ve always said … space travel is not trivial, and so what we need to do next is, we’re going to retire the International Space Station, invest that — that operational money in developing a lunar base where technologies that are needed to go to Mars need to be developed and tested…
The editorial board of the New York Post went after tech billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday, stating he is “way out of his lane” in calling for the impeachment of a judge who temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “Elon Musk is way out of his lane in cheering a bid to impeach federal Judge James Boasberg, who’s put a…
President Trump has tapped Bryan Bedford, the president and CEO of Republic Airways, to head the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). “Brian brings over three decades of experience in Aviation and Executive Leadership to this critical position,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “Bryan will work with our GREAT Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, to strongly reform the Agency, safeguard our exports, and ensure the safety of nearly one billion…
Mississippi state and federal officials have confirmed an outbreak of a strain of bird flu not reported in the U.S. since 2017, with quarantine and depopulation efforts already underway. In a statement released March 12, the Mississippi Board of Animal Health stated that poultry from a commercial broiler breeder chicken flock in Noxubee County had tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). “The State Veterinarian has quarantined the affected…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Monday on the social platform X the deported assistant professor from Brown University’s medical school attended the funeral of a terrorist in Lebanon. The agency said Rasha Alawieh went to Lebanon in February to go to the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, a former secretary-general of Hezbollah. He was “responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade terror spree,” DHS said. …
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) questioned Monday whether the White House violated a court order directing it to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Saturday barred the Trump administration from carrying out deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. President Trump over the weekend signed an order invoking the war powers to swiftly deport anyone suspected of membership in the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.…
An assistant professor from Brown University’s medical school with a valid visa was deported from the U.S. despite a judge’s order that she was not to be removed. U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin, an appointee of former President Obama, was set to hold a hearing Monday after Rasha Alawieh was deported to Lebanon but canceled it shortly before it began. The deportation came after Sorokin said Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist, was…
President Trump has continued his attack against prominent law firms, pulling the security clearances of attorneys at New York-based Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul Weiss), and restricting their employees from entering government buildings and receiving funds from federal contracts. Trump signed the order on Friday, directing that the security clearances of Paul Weiss employees be pulled “pending a review of whether such clearances are consistent with the…
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Friday released the full video of Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest last weekend as outrage grows over his detention by immigration officials. Khalil was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Saturday after playing a leading role in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia last year. The roughly eight-minute video, which was taken by Khalil’s wife Noor Abdalla, shows ICE…
Tech billionaire and senior President Trump adviser Elon Musk visited the National Security Agency (NSA) this week after calling for an “overhaul” of the agency earlier this month. Musk, who is spearheading the push to overhaul the federal government and align it with the vision of the president, met with the head of the NSA, Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh, on Wednesday at the spy agency’s headquarters in Fort…