One of the weirdest open secrets in space has come back to earth: The X-37B, an experimental US Air Force drone that looks and flies like a miniature Space Shuttle, landed at Kennedy Space Center on May 7 with a sonic boom that surprised local residents.
California has come up with a remarkable plan to tax rocket launches from its coast.
The health-care bill passed by Republican lawmakers has gotten attention for how it would change marketplaces for individual insurance and cut subsidies for low-income Americans.
Apple is well known for its sleek designs, pursuit of efficiency, and adroit use of foreign opportunities—not just in its consumer products, but in its hyper-aggressive pursuit of the lowest possible tax rates. But the company’s experience over the past few years highlights the flaws in Donald Trump’s tax-reform plans.
With the world’s eyes trained primarily on Syria’s bloody civil war and the nuclear posturing of North Korea, news about the simmering conflict between the US-backed Afghan government and Taliban insurgents tends to slip between the cracks.
Over the weekend, US lawmakers put the final touches on a deal to keep the government funded and functioning through the end of the fiscal year. The secret of their success? Ignoring the president.
Elon Musk got his first taste of what goes into a top-secret space mission back in 2006, when his company SpaceX was experimenting with a new rocket at a US Air Force base. For fear that the space startup’s work would disturb efforts by competitors Boeing and Lockheed Martin to launch a secret satellite at the same site, the Air Force kicked SpaceX out.
The US space industry is prodding the US government into refreshing its outdated laws on commercial activity beyond earth: scare it with talk of Chinese galactic domination.
The Trump administration took its first truly protectionist step yesterday, but its target wasn’t China or Mexico.
Donald Trump got on the phone today to congratulate veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson, who recently arrived at the International Space Station and, having spent 534 days in space including two previous tours on the orbital lab, broke the record for the longest overall time spent in space by an American.
By midnight on April 28—this Friday—the US government needs to get its funding in order, or shut down. Non-essential services will be suspended until Congress reaches a consensus on a spending bill to keep things running.
Donald Trump is preparing to make life easier for big banks and investors in multinational companies. The US president will institute a new series of legal reviews during his first trip to the Treasury Department today. The most telling: Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin will review every tax regulation issued in 2016 to evaluate which should be repealed or modified.
The Google Lunar XPrize, a contest offering $20 million to the first private team to send a robot to the moon—and explore the lunar surface for the first time since China’s space agency landed a rover in 2014—is now down to four competitors with just over eight months until the race comes to an end.
The White House has called for an investigation into whether the US is in peril due to an over-dependence on foreign steel. The move could give president Donald Trump the tools to put in place restrictions on US steel imports and increase global trade tensions.
For some, last weekend’s Turkish referendum consolidating power under president Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the end of the Turkish republic as the world knows it. US president Donald Trump, however, called Erdogan to congratulate him on seizing control of the governing apparatus, in a vote that passed by a bare majority and was marred by violence, restrictions on the press, and irregular procedures.
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Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he has triumphed in a radical constitutional referendum that will consolidate the government under his control.
President Donald Trump shared a little insight into US foreign policy after North Korea’s fizzled missile test:
North Korea’s penchant for attention-getting military displays came up short after a failed attempt to demonstrate a medium-range missile that could reach targets in South Korea or Japan, including US military bases.
Demonstrations across the United States, including a march organized by an array of progressive groups in Washington, D.C., will mark April 15 by calling on Donald Trump to release his tax returns and reject giveaways to wealthy Americans.
Barack Obama was known for his basketball prowess in the White House, but no president crosses up his opponents and allies more than Donald Trump.
Farmers know: You make hay while the sun shines. Is Donald Trump, America’s tax farmer-in-chief, already watching the sun set on his promise of “a phenomenal tax reform”?
“My business model right now … for Blue Origin is I sell about $1 billion of Amazon stock a year and I use it to invest in Blue Origin,” Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon and patron of Blue Origin, a promising new space enterprise, said last week.
Jeff Bezos said last week he is cashing out one billion dollars of Amazon stock every year to finance his space company, Blue Origin, which aims to fly tourists to the edge of space next year.
