ISS astronauts splash down on SpaceX craft
It was the first US splashdown in darkness since Apollo 8’s crew returned from the moon in 1968. A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts back to Earth splashed…
Contagious and concerning: What we know about Covid-19 variants
Fast-spreading coronavirus variants have ignited global concern over whether existing vaccines will be able to protect the world from a virus that is constantly mutating. Variants that have emerged in…
President Joe Biden’s speech to Congress : Government is good, and so are jobs
President Joe Biden returned to the U.S. Capitol, his home for more than three decades. In a historic first, President Biden was flanked by two women — House Speaker Nancy…
Oscars 2021 winners : Nomadland, Anthony Hopkins and Daniel Kaluuya share glory
The 2021 Oscars Sunday had a different, more relaxed vibe compared with previous years. Play-off music didn’t even interrupt the speeches and history was made, with Chloé Zhao becoming the second ever woman…
Climate Summit Day 2 message : Invest big for big payoff
The White House brought out the billionaires, the CEOs and the union executives Friday to help sell President Joe Biden’s vision of a climate-friendly transformation of the U.S. economy at…
SpaceX rocketship launches 4 astronauts on NASA mission to space station
The joint operation between NASA and Elon Musk’s company SpaceX successfully launched a team of astronauts into space to send to the International Space Station. The four-member crew is the…
Biden pledges to cut US emissions by 2030 at climate summit
President Joe Biden has opened a global climate summit with a pledge to cut at least in half the climate-wrecking coal and petroleum fumes that the United States pumps out,…
Derek Chauvin Found Guilty In Murder Of George Floyd
Derek Chauvin, the former officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds until he could no longer breathe, was found guilty of murder by a…
NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation
More than 250 NGOs have urgently called on international governments to increase aid and save more than 34 million people on the brink of starvation this year. In an open…
Biden’s virtual climate summit: Diplomacy sans human touch
There will be no hands to shake or backs to slap, no way to look a foreign leader in the eye. The small human moments that define statecraft will be…
