American workers are clawing back their share of the country’s annual income, but still haven’t regained their ground from before the recession—or even the end of the 20th century.
The fire that burst from the top stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, quickly consuming it and the satellite it was to carry to orbit, did more than melt aluminum and crack carbon fiber on a $62 million rocket and throw another wrench into Elon Musk’s already busy day. It will have repercussions across the globe.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in what could be a major setback for Elon Musk’s space company.
It must have been an oversight when Donald Trump forgot to tell Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto to start raising money to pay for a border wall in their meeting today, telling reporters the issue wasn’t discussed.
Donald Trump, since day one of his campaign, has reviled Mexican immigrants as criminals, promised to build a wall on the US-Mexico border paid for by Mexico, and threatened to pull the plug on trade between the two countries. So now he’s going for a visit.
SES, the European satellite giant, will be the first company to hire SpaceX to launch a satellite on a previously flown rocket stage, the company said today.
Years of funneling earnings through shell companies in Ireland have finally caught up with Apple. Today (Aug. 30), the European Commission announced, after a two-year investigation, that the tech giant must pay back more than €13 billion ($14.5 billion) in “illegal tax benefits” to Ireland, plus interest.
Huma Abedin, a longtime member of Hillary Clinton’s inner circle, is leaving her scandal-ridden husband, former Congressman Anthony Weiner, after another lewd photo was leaked to the press, this one including the couple’s four-year-old child.
Mylan, the monopoly producer of the EpiPen, will begin selling a half-priced version of its life-saving medical device, after harsh criticism last week over exorbitant price increases.
The big kahuna of American rocket companies is the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin that until this year held a monopoly on the lucrative business of launching rockets for the US Air Force.
Political press conferences are pointless, and mostly about media showboating.
The latest evolution of the Hillary Clinton e-mail probe has failed to find clear evidence of corruption connected to her family’s charitable foundation, but does show a parade of favor seekers trying to bend her ear while she served as Secretary of State.
Gilead Science, the drug maker widely criticized for pricing a life-saving anti-viral drug beyond the reach of many patients, has also used a controversial tax strategy to to keep nearly $28.5 billion in profit out of reach of the US Treasury.
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign continues to funnel money to the candidate’s businesses and family, the latest campaign financial disclosures show, and his operation is far from prepared for the final push of this election season.
Update: In a paper published in Science on June 16 the Chinese team reported that it had achieved its goal, measuring more than 1,000 pairs of photons to verify that they were indeed entangled, as predicted.
Two US astronauts are installing a new doorway on the International Space Station, a key step toward opening up the station to new commercial vehicles.
After Donald Trump’s speech in North Carolina yesterday mentioned his regret about unspecified things he’s said, his campaign manager says critics like the Kahn family owe him forgiveness. Given the various things I’ve written about Trump in the past 18 months, I feel it important to release the following statement.
Aetna, the major insurer who announced it will leave most of the subsidized health care exchanges created by the 2010 Affordable Care Act, finds itself in a tight spot.
Donald Trump’s decision to name an executive from the far-right website Breitbart as his top campaign operative is a turning point. With 82 days to go, the Republican nominee is abandoning any attempt at a traditional campaign aimed at the center of the country.
Aetna, one of the largest health insurers in the US, has announced it will largely pull out of the marketplaces created in the health-care overhaul signed by president Barack Obama, a setback for the law and a reminder that the next president will need to tinker with the system if affordable, universal coverage is to be reality.
Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, is familiar with monomaniacal clients who can’t get out of their own way. After all, at least three of them have been deposed in coups.
After launching a Japanese communications satellite toward orbit at many times the speed of sound, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster rocket returned unerringly to a floating landing platform early this morning.
The strangely bifurcated legal status of marijuana in the United States didn’t get any more sensible yesterday, when the Drug Enforcement Administration responded to a petition to remove the drug from its place as one of the most pernicious controlled substances in the US with a polite “no.”
Donald Trump’s Twitter account is central to his presidential campaign. It is the original platform where he hurled insults and rallied his supporters, and now, thanks to a new data analysis, we can see an internal battle over Trump’s message playing out there.
