It’s time for NASA to cancel the Lunar Gateway
A recently leaked NASA document shows there is bad news and some good news for the Artemis return to the moon program, according to a recent article in Ars Technica. The bad news is, largely because of costs associated with building the Lunar Gateway, the pace of Artemis missions to the moon slows to an unsustainable crawl, with years between flights and the establishment of a lunar base pushed off to the 2030s. The good news is that many of these problems might be solved by canceling the Lunar Gateway. The Lunar Gateway, once known as the Deep Space Gateway when it was first
Read MoreMost in new poll say overturning Roe is 'step backward'
Over half of the Americans questioned in a new poll say the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is a "step backward" for the U.S. In the CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday, 52 percent of voters said the decision was a "step backward," while 31 percent say it is a "step forward." Seventeen percent said i
Read MoreHow the Senate broke through 30 years of gridlock to reform gun laws
Except for a relatively modest fix to the federal background check system in 2018, Congress had not passed meaningful legislation to curb gun violence in nearly 30 years when an 18-year-old gunman entered a school in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 children and two teachers. It was the worst school shooting since the massacre of 20 kids and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012. Lawmakers had made almost no progress in the decade since on restricting access to firearms or addressing gun violence. Yet senators defied the odds this
Read MoreAbrams says it is 'very dangerous' for women in Georgia following abortion ruling
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) on Sunday called a six-week abortion ban now poised to go into effect in her state in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade “horrendous,” arguing that it makes it “very dangerous” for women. “We know that in Georgia, law has already been proposed that would expand the restrictions in the state,” Abrams told CNN “State of the Union” co-anchor Jake Tapper. “We know that Brian Kemp has already signaled his, at least an ambiguity, about how he feels about birth control and the laws that go
Read MoreSouth Dakota governor says she will ban abortion pills prescribed online
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Sunday said she will ban telemedicine appointments with abortion care providers who prescribe pills online in the GOP-controlled state in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Noem told host Margaret Brennan on CBS's "Face the Nation" that she brought a bill forward in her state to ban the telemedicine appointments in order to block women from getting prescription abortion pills online and receiving them through the mail. "These are very dangerous medical procedures," Noem argued. "We don't believe it shoul
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