A nearby "super-Earth" exoplanet was recently discovered just 137 light-years away from Earth, prompting scientists to dig deeper into if it has the conditions to sustain life, NASA announced. The planet, dubbed TOI-715 b, is about one and a half times as wide as Earth and orbits within a conservative "habitable zone" around its parent...
A pair of climate scientists are proposing a sixth category for hurricanes as climate change increasingly intensifies these storms, according to a new research study. In a study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the two scientists argued the "open-ended" Saffir Simpson hurricane wind scale is becoming increasingly "inadequate" as...
The bipartisan border bill is looking increasingly like it’s in trouble as Republicans call for more time to review the legislation and a growing number make clear they have no intention of allowing it to proceed in its current form. Senate Republicans on Monday huddled to discuss the nascent bill and members almost universally called...
President Biden on Sunday appeared to mix up French President Emmanuel Macron with Francois Mitterrand, the former president of France who died in 1996. The apparent mix-up took place during a Sunday campaign event in Las Vegas, in which Biden recounted a Group of 7 (G7) meeting he attended after being elected in 2020. Biden...
The House Rules Committee on Monday voted 8-4 to send an impeachment case against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the full chamber for a vote.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is suddenly moving to jail the migrant cop-beaters, which we guess shows that scorching headlines can have some impact.
The months-in-the-making Senate “compromise” on border/migrant/asylum policy that was supposed to include major Democratic concessions as the price of OK’ing aid for Ukraine and...