NASA head defends all-male crew for Artemis, space program named after Greek goddess

President Trump on Wednesday endorsed a third $350 billion reconciliation bill, urging Congress to “IMMEDIATELY” pass it with the Save America Act included. “I am hereby calling on Republicans in Congress to IMMEDIATELY advance and pass the forthcoming $350 Billion Reconciliation Bill (Recon 3.0) — which, at the request of our Great Department of War...

U.S. prosecutors announced Wednesday that they would not seek the death penalty for the man charged with the political assassination of a high-ranking Minnesota House Democrat and her husband and the attempted murders of a state senator and his wife. The agreement was part of a plea deal reached ahead of a change-of-plea hearing scheduled […]

Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) urged Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to create a vaccine for New World screwworms on Wednesday after the parasite infestation returned to the US for the first time in 60 years. Grassley said he’d spoken to Rollins about developing a vaccine for screwworms months before the recent outbreak in Texas. ...

The Trump administration has said the fund isn’t moving forward, but the president has said he’d like to pay purported victims “the kind of money that they deserve.”