Nine astronauts on the space station briefly moved to their docked return spacecraft late Wednesday (June 26) as a satellite broke up in low Earth orbit. The procedure was a "precautionary measure", NASA officials added, stating that the crew only stayed in their spacecraft for about an hour before they were "cleared to exit their spacecraft, and the station resumed normal operations."
Oklahoma's top education official has ordered schools in the state to begin incorporating the Bible into lessons, in the latest US cultural flashpoint over religion in the classroom. A directive sent by Republican state Superintendent Ryan Walters said the rule was compulsory, requiring "immediate and strict compliance". Read more
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) " Singer, songwriter, satirist and novelist Kinky Friedman, who led the alt-country band Texas Jewboys, toured with Bob Dylan, sang with Willie Nelson, and dabbled in politics with campaigns for Texas governor and other statewide offices, has died. Friedman, 79, died Thursday at his family's Texas ranch near San Antonio, close friend Kent Perkins told The Associated Press. Friedman had suffered from Parkinson's disease for several years, Perkins said. Read more
"Oklahoma's state superintendent on Thursday directed all public schools to teach the Bible, including the Ten Commandments, in an extraordinary move that blurs (obliterates) the lines between religious instruction and public education."
Russia's Victory Day offensive is turning into a bloodbath ... for Russian troops.
Russia's Victory Day offensive across Ukraine's northern border with Russia may have aimed to capture a wide, deep swathe of territory to bring heavy artillery closer to the city of Kharkiv, 25 miles to the south. More ambitiously, Russian commanders may have hoped to march on Kharkiv itself. Read more
A West Virginia couple are charged with human trafficking, child neglect, forced labor and more after, prosecutors allege, they adopted five Black children from a shelter to do forced labor and live in deplorable conditions. Read more
Anthony Borges, who was a freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 when he was severely wounded by a rampaging gunman, has been given the rights to his attacker's name as part of a stunning civil settlement, according to his lawyer. The result of the negotiated settlement will mean that Borges has the final say over where, when, and how Nikolas Cruz speaks publicly about the Parkland shooting, including to authors, journalists, and documentarians, the Orlando Sun Sentinel reported on Thursday. "He signed over any rights to his name," Borges' lawyer, Alex Arreaza, told the newspaper. "The idea now is to shut him out. He will not be the one who decides when or how the story gets told." Read more
Supporters of former President Donald Trump are turning against U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett after she sided with the Biden administration in a dispute with Republican-led states.
In a 6-3 ruling in Murthy v. Missouri, Barrett wrote for the court that the states did not have standing to sue over how social media companies moderate content on their platforms. Justice Samuel Alito filed a dissent and was joined by Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch. Read more
More than two decades after Cindy Clemishire alleges she was sexually assaulted by Robert Morris, starting when she was just 12 years old, the Gateway Church pastor asked her an alarming question aimed at keeping her quiet. "Put a price on it," Morris said on Sept. 22, 2005, according to a phone call transcript obtained by NBC News through a former Gateway staffer. When Clemishire responded that it was "not a small number," Morris pushed back after noting that money did not make her happy and he could understand that. "Two million dollars," Clemishire responded before Morris ended the call, the transcript states. But the shocking phone conversation"which came after emails between Clemishire and Morris in which she asked for compensation over her trauma"did not lead to the downfall of the Texas megachurch pastor who would go on to serve as former President Donald Trump's spiritual adviser.
The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Virginia, a decorated Navy veteran, has made repeated references to becoming disabled after he was "blown up" in combat, and has stressed that he has scars from his military service while Democratic incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine got rich from the safety of Capitol Hill. Yet the Navy service record for Hung Cao, who won the GOP primary in June, does not show a Purple Heart award, the commendation given to troops who have suffered wounds from "direct or indirect result of enemy action" that required medical attention. Nor does his record indicate that he received the Navy's Combat Action Ribbon, which requires that a sailor "must have rendered satisfactory performance under enemy fire while actively participating in ground or surface combat engagement." USA TODAY obtained Cao's record from the Navy. Cao, 52, through his campaign, declined to answer specific questions about his military service.
A California radiologist accused of trying to kill his family by driving off a cliff along the Northern California coast will receive mental health treatment instead of standing trial, a judge ruled. Prosecutors charged Dharmesh A. Patel, 43, with attempted murder after the Tesla he was driving plunged off a 250-foot (76 meters) cliff along the Pacific Coast Highway in San Mateo County, injuring his wife and two young children. All four survived the Jan. 2, 2023, crash in what one official called an "absolute miracle."
I know some people will hate on him but I liked the character he played in the Hudsucker proxy. RIP
A Neanderthal child with Down's syndrome survived until at least the age of six, according to a new study whose findings hint at compassionate caregiving among the extinct, archaic human species. Recent examination of a human fossil unearthed at the Cova Negra archaeological site in the Spanish province of Valencia found traits in the inner-ear anatomy which indicated Down syndrome, in the earliest-known evidence of the genetic condition. The fossil, which preserves the complete inner-ear anatomy, was excavated in 1989 but its significance was not recognised until recently. It is a fragment of one of the two temporal bones " the right one " that help form the sides and base of the skull, protecting the brain and surrounding the ear canal. While the researchers cannot be certain whether the fossil was that of a girl or a boy, they have nicknamed the Neanderthal child "Tina". Read more
A convicted felon somehow continues to defy the odds that Democrats had hoped would destroy him by leading +1.5 in aggregate polling. This should worry Democrats on the eve of the first of two debates coming tomorrow. While Democrats had hoped the label of "convicted felon" would subdue the lead Trump has maintained for months, it continues to appear that no one cares.
Tesla has announced two more recalls of the Cybertruck, both of which affect over 11,000 vehicles produced since the car first became available late last year. Cybertruck owners will need to bring their cars in for service because of faulty windshield wiper motors and a cosmetic piece that could come off the vehicle while it's being driven.
Jun 26, 2024 Stranger Things In just the latest example of how Donald Trump needs to be praised on a daily basis, he just posted a video to Truth Social which showed a group of people thanking him in various ways. This includes one young man who calls him God Emperor, and a woman who said he is the Chosen One.
