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Because the creation of the House Age, we have at all times relied on radio frequency communications to “chat” with each astronauts and spacecraft in orbit and past. However now, NASA is leveling up its communications system with one of many coolest, most space-y issues ever: lasers. As a part of NASA’s House Communications and Navigation (SCAN) program, researchers have …

Sony Footage Leisure is buying Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the dine-in movie show chain identified for its character, premium food and drinks choices, and punctuality coverage. The deal — creating the uncommon occasion of a Hollywood studio proudly owning a cinema chain — was introduced Wednesday and is an answer to Alamo’s monetary woes. However it additionally raises questions on its …

Republican legislators are bending over backward to indicate their fealty to Donald Trump and preserve him from turning off voters together with his lashing out over his prison felony conviction. Philip Bump, nationwide columnist for the Washington Put up, and Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and authorized correspondent at Slate talk about with Alex Wagner.

Rep. Tom Cole is the most recent Home Republican on protection this 12 months, going through a main challenger from the suitable in Oklahoma as GOP incumbents throughout the nation have seen their margins of victory shrink in recent times. It is essentially the most aggressive main Cole has confronted since he was first elected in 2002, and it’s been …

The UN Safety Council has demanded that Sudanese paramilitary forces name off their eight-week siege of El Fasher, a metropolis in Darfur area the place combating has sparked genocide considerations. Sudan’s military has been combating the paramilitary Speedy Help Forces (RSF) for greater than a 12 months, in a civil conflict that has killed hundreds and compelled tens of millions …

The Supreme Court docket on Thursday upheld entry to the abortion pill mifepristone. The ruling was a win for proponents of entry to abortion, however legal guidelines surrounding entry in states fluctuate. The Meals and Drug Administration approved mifepristone in 2000 for medicine abortion. In 2016, it prolonged the time-frame during which a pregnant lady can use the drug to …

The primary astronauts to fly Boeing’s new Starliner automobile have spoken in glowing phrases of the spacecraft. Starliner launched on June 5, with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams testing out the spacecraft’s capabilities on the Crew Flight Check (CFT) mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Williams and Wilmore spoke through video hyperlink from the ISS with NASA …

For higher or worse, some stereotypes maintain true, together with, in accordance with a brand new examine, that males eat extra pink meat than girls. The analysis, printed in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, thought of the consumption habits of 21,000 individuals in 23 nations and located that males ate extra meat than girls. The meat consumption hole was even wider …

PHOENIX (AP) — DeAnna Mireau reached right into a container and fished out a scrap of paper. “The following one is — do we’ve got a drumroll?” she known as out to a room crowded with some two dozen older adults and a half-dozen journalists. “Justice! Justice for all.” No person stirred, so Mireau reached for an additional scrap. Subsequent …

The Murphy administration is proposing a plan for the state Financial Improvement Authority to buy $100 million of NJ Transit’s precious property round rail — parking tons or awkward, under-used parcels — and generate growth, extra ridership and income for NJ Transit. The concept, based on an announcement from Financial Improvement Authority CEO Tim Sullivan and NJ Transit President and …