Can Donald Trump pass the commander-in-chief test? An erratic 24 hours has put his ad hoc leadership style during a crisis on full display.
There are multiple reports that Mike Pence will be Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate. If he is, how will he explain away his support for the very same free trade deals that Trump has been bashing for more than a year?
The FBI has recommended that no criminal charges be filed against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server while leading the State Department, director James Comey said in a statement this morning.
Saudi state television is reporting a suicide attack on a security center near the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, considered the second-holiest site in Islam after the Grand Mosque in nearby Mecca. Both are destinations for millions of Muslim pilgrims each year.
The merger between two of Elon Musk’s corporate bets on futuristic tech—Tesla’s electric cars and Solar City’s solar electricity—has driven anxious musings about whether the combination is wise.
When a SpaceX rocket exploded while ferrying supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) a year ago, the consequences were far-reaching.
Lake Natron, in Tanzania, is a serene expanse of water where flamingoes stop on their migration, below the titanic bulk of Ol Doinyo Lengai, an active volcano revered by Masai people who live here. The variety of animals in the remote semi-desert environment—greater kudu, water buffalo, and eland—attract the safari business, with trophy-hunting tourists paying for camps and guides.
Women have a range of contraceptive methods, from pills to patches to IUDs. But there hasn’t been a new form of contraception developed for men since the vasectomy became the preferred method of sterilizing criminals at the end of the 19th century. There hasn’t been a reversible method invented since the condom came into widespread use during the Renaissance.
Research last year showing a dismaying increase in mortality among poor, middle-aged white men in the US has become a touchstone in US political debates—it’s used to explain everything from Bernie Sanders’ insurgent campaign to Donald Trump’s ability to seize the Republican nomination, as a vessel of white male resentment.
Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, said it broke ground on a 750,000-square-foot “orbital vehicle” factory in Florida, to build full-scale rockets that could reach the International Space Station or the altitudes where satellites orbit.
With Britons voting to leave the European Union—a win for populist voices favoring isolation—there are some in the United States who see a harbinger of victory for Donald Trump, whose campaign relies on similar nationalist themes.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign rolled out a list of endorsements from corporate executives, a formidable display of just how attractive her brand of center-left politics can be in the age of Donald Trump’s madness.
Donald Trump says he will forgive the $50 million he has loaned to his campaign, in an attempt to boost confidence in the erratic builder’s floundering run for the White House.
Bushmaster, the company that made the semi-automatic rifle used in the killing of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in 2012, will cite a gun law backed by Bernie Sanders to block a lawsuit brought by the victims’ families.
Does economic development depend on a class of super-wealthy tycoons? And is that such a bad thing?
Microsoft is breaking into the new field of marijuana compliance. The objective: to provide a tracking service that helps state governments keep tabs on newly legalized medical and recreational marijuana.
Overnight, Democrats held the Senate floor to force a vote on two gun safety laws aimed at preventing another tragedy like the murder of 49 people at a gay club in Orlando. It was long hoped-for political surge to limit the availability of powerful weapons used in numerous mass shootings in recent years.
You may have heard that soccer is America’s sport of the future.
SpaceX aims to launch and recover yet another rocket this morning, with the goal of placing two new communications satellites into orbit high above the earth.
People forget that the Midas touch is intended to be a curse, and Stephen Feinberg’s got it.
SpaceX’s aim to colonize Mars is inspired by the Age of Exploration, but the plans themselves look a lot more like a white board at a global logistics firm.
The US embargo on Cuba may not exist much longer. But now we know how Cuba’s socialist government dodged it, using offshore banks and shell companies to do business in US dollars and protect foreign partners from American retribution.
For the first time in 240 years, voters have chosen a woman to lead a major US political party to victory in the presidential elections.
California Governor Jerry Brown’s long political career has seen many battles, but the governor who turned around California’s insane budget and riled up the Bernie Bros by endorsing Hillary Clinton is taking on perhaps his toughest political opponent yet: The NIMBY.
