Skip to Content

Month: October 2024

European spacecraft launches for ‘crash scene investigation’ of first planetary defense test

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A European spacecraft and two shoebox-size satellites have launched to survey the aftermath from NASA’s DART mission, which intentionally slammed into an asteroid named Dimorphos and altered its orbit two years ago. The European Space Agency’s Hera mission lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 10:52 a.m. ET

Continue Reading

Supreme Court won’t hear case from parents fighting Justice Department memo on school board threats

By John Fritze, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up an appeal from parents in Michigan and Virginia who accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of stifling their freedom of speech with a three-year-old memo that asked officials to look into threats directed at public school officials. In 2021, Garland issued a

Continue Reading

Supreme Court won’t hear appeal from Elon Musk’s X platform over warrant in Trump case

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it won’t hear an appeal from the social media platform X over a search warrant prosecutors obtained in the election-interference case against former President Donald Trump. The company, known as Twitter before it was purchased by billionaire Elon Musk, says a nondisclosure order that blocked it

Continue Reading

Turning Point wants to revolutionize how Republicans turn out voters. Some are skeptical

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Turning Point ’s representatives have made two things clear in meetings with state and local Republican leaders— Donald Trump has blessed their conservative organization to help lead his get-out-the-vote effort, and local party officials ought to use the group’s new voter mobilization app. Both prospects terrify fellow Republicans. Soaring to

Continue Reading

Nicholas Alexander Chavez plays Lyle Menendez and a priest on TV. He’s hungry for what’s next.

Associated Press Nicholas Alexander Chavez has had an exciting few weeks with the debut of his first two roles in prime-time shows. The former daytime actor plays Lyle Menendez in Netflix’s “Monsters” and a priest with a self-professed “morbid fascination” for true crime in FX’s “Grotesquerie.” Both shows are co-created by Ryan Murphy. Chavez may

Continue Reading

Trump and Harris’ proposals would both increase the national debt but Trump’s plan would add $4 trillion more, study finds

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are rolling out ever-growing lists of promises to voters — from making housing and health care more affordable to supporting manufacturers to providing tax relief to millions of Americans. But those proposals come with hefty price tags, and the

Continue Reading