The soccer federations of the United States, Mexico and Canada have announced their long-awaited tripartite bid to host soccer’s World Cup in 2026, and soccer cognoscenti know why: Cash money dollar bills.
These Democrats seem to be built for opposition. And their Republican counterparts have responded by going nuclear.
Ready to make a deal?
Will the world’s two largest economies finally come to a fight over the price of cars?
Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Paul Manafort, whose stint as Donald Trump’s presidential campaign manager has become a focus of federal investigators because of his ties with Russia, is now also facing scrutiny for three real-estate purchases he made in New York City. Why would this be a signal of possible corruption?
Elon Musk’s SpaceX aims to launch its first flight-proven (read: gently used) orbital booster rocket this week from Cape Canaveral. If the rocket delivers its satellite cargo to space and returns successfully, it will be a new milestone in the race toward cheaper space access.
In one corner, we have an international, orbital laboratory that cost over $150 billion to build and operate. In the other, a $23 billion and growing program to develop a huge new deep-space rocket and spacecraft to carry humans to the moon and beyond. Now, they will face off in a Darwinian struggle for survival, unless US lawmakers can find a third way.
“I would say that we will probably start going very, very strongly for the big tax cuts and tax reform,” president Donald Trump said after his party’s health-care bill collapsed on itself at the end of last week.
Venture money is pouring into companies that promise to use small, cheap satellites to solve problems here on earth, from maximizing crop growth to accelerating internet access. But getting these satellites to space is still not as easy as it could be.
Within a year, says Blue Origin, it will begin flying humans to the edge of space. That would grant the company, founded by Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, a symbolic victory over competitors like SpaceX, Boeing and Virgin Galactic, who are also pursuing plans to fly paying passengers beyond earth’s atmosphere.
The Deep Space Climate Observatory is an American satellite that sits in a special orbit between the earth and the sun, about 1.5 million kilometers away from us. That distance allows it to capture unique images of the entire earth. Today, US president Donald Trump said he wants to shut down those cameras.
Today we’ll get a first look at Donald Trump’s vision for the government.
Government accountants have identified a surprising figure as they estimated the effects of the new Republican health-care bill on Americans. It’s the public cost of caring for all the new babies who will be born if funding is cut to Planned Parenthood, a US non-profit dedicated to women’s reproductive health, which largely serves the poor.
Congressional accountants confirmed today what independent experts long expected: The Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act will leave many Americans facing higher costs and millions will lose their coverage.
It’s safe to say that the rollout of Trumpcare, the Republican plan to replace Obamacare, has not gone smoothly.
SpaceX’s ambitious mission around the moon and back again has raised important questions about technical feasibility and the company’s relationship with NASA. But the biggest mystery is, who are the two tourists who ponied up a “significant deposit” on a trip to deep space that will cost more than $100 million?
Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of the rocket company SpaceX, says that two private individuals have hired his firm to fly a manned mission around the moon in late 2018.
This week, we’ll see Donald Trump’s plan for US government spending in the next fiscal year. We’ve already been leaked a preview suggesting the major themes: Bulk up defense spending, don’t touch Social Security or Medicare, and cut the rest of government spending enough to make up the difference.
At the behest of the Trump administration, NASA is figuring out if it makes any sense to fly humans on an untested rocket.
Tom Perriello is ready to talk about taxing robots.
The Trump administration has reportedly asked government accountants to reconsider how they calculate the US balance of trade—a move widely seen as a prelude to attacks on US free trade deals and the global supply chains of US companies.
What you’re seeing in the video above is a 40 meter tall SpaceX rocket booster, weighing more than 20 tons, fly itself back to Earth from space and land precisely on a target at Cape Canaveral.
