MAY 27, 2022
Chris Kemp, founder and CEO of Astra, speaks during the Skybridge Capital SALT New York 2021 conference in New York REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Astra CEO Chris Kemp said the space industry will enable new technologies on Earth.
Kemp compared the growing industry to the internet boom in the '90s.
He said the industry will need a global governance...
MAY 26, 2022
The Justice Department has released portions of a previously unseen alternative version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on ties between former President Donald Trump and Russia.
However, the 37-page report prepared at the direction of Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann and released this week under the Freedom of Information Act is heavily redacted. Justice Department officials withheld large...
MAY 26, 2022
The US Navy lent Tom Cruise F/A-18 Super Hornets for the new “Top Gun” movie. The only catches: The studio paid as much as $11,374 an hour to use the advanced fighter planes -- and Cruise couldn’t touch the controls.
The “Mission Impossible” star, famous for performing his own stunts, insisted that all the actors portraying pilots on...
MAY 26, 2022
Ukraine Slams Idea of Swapping Land for Peace. - Serhii Korovayny/WSJ
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed suggestions that his country should cede territory to Russia in return for peace, comparing them to attempts to appease Nazi Germany, as Russia stepped up its attacks in Ukraine’s east.
With the war in Ukraine now past...
MAY 26, 2022
Elon Musk is the most influential CEO in the world.
And he knows it.
The mogul with 95 million followers on Twitter is determined to use his platform to weigh in on public debates, whatever they may be.
In recent months, the CEO of the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla has thus imposed his voice on subjects such as the Russian...
MAY 26, 2022
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks from the podium during a campaign rally, on May 1, 2022, in Greenwood, Neb. Trump must answer questions under oath in New York state's civil investigation into his business practices, a state appeals court ruled Thursday, May 26, 2022. - (Kenneth Ferriera/Lincoln Journal Star via AP, File)
NEW YORK — Former...
MAY 25, 2022
Nancy Rose, 67, pauses while organizing her desk in Port Jefferson, N.Y. Rose had COVID-19 in 2021 and continues to exhibit long-haul symptoms, including brain fog and memory difficulties. - (John Minchillo / Associated Press)
New U.S. research on long COVID provides fresh evidence that it can occur after breakthrough infections in vaccinated people, and that older adults...
MAY 25, 2022
Climate change is pushing hurricanes to their extremes. In 2018, Hurricane Michael (shown here in this digitally enhanced image) became the first Category 5 hurricane to make landfall on the Florida Panhandle.
Humans aren't just making Earth warmer, they are making the climate chaotic, a stark new study suggests.
The new research, which was posted April 21 to the...
MAY 25, 2022
All three major US stock indexes gyrated earlier in the day amid increasing jitters stemming from business and consumer surveys, economic data and corporate earnings reports suggesting a cooling American economy
Wall Street closed higher Wednesday, boosted after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest monetary policy meeting showed policymakers unanimously felt the United States economy was very...
MAY 25, 2022
US Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell takes the oath of office for his second term, Monday, May 23, 2022, in Washington. - (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal Reserve officials agreed when they met earlier this month that they may have to raise interest rates to levels that would weaken the economy as part of their...
