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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger speaks during the Department of State 230th Anniversary Celebration at the Harry S. Truman Headquarters building July 29, 2019 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/... More »
The four astronauts of SpaceX's first full mission to the International Space Station (ISS) have splashed back down to Earth off the coast of Florida.It is the first US splashdown under the cover of darkness since NASA's Apollo 8 returned from the moon in 1968... More »
Crew-1, which launched to the space station in November, will head home in the capsule called Resilience.Four astronauts are taking the redeye home to Earth.At 8:35 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday, a crew of four — three NASA astronauts and one from Japan’s spac... More »
Caitlyn Jenner has said that transgender athletes who were born male should not be allowed to compete in girls' sports teams.Jenner recently announced she would run for California governor as a Republican in an effort to unseat Democrat Gavin Newsom. The forme... More »
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with actress Sharon Stone about her new book — already a New York Times bestseller. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And finally today, Sharon Stone. For years, she was one of the poster women for classic Hollywood blonde bomb... More »
Enlarge this image Olympia Dukakis and Cher hold the Golden Globe awards they received for performances in the hit movie Moonstruck in 1988. Later that awards season, they both won Oscars. Re... More »
YAMHILL, Ore. — The best argument for President Biden’s three-part proposal to invest heavily in America and its people is an echo of Franklin Roosevelt’s explanation for the New Deal. “In 1932 there was an awfully sick patient called the United States of Amer... More »
The lead item in Politico’s signature morning newsletter asked if a certain public figure was “losing his mind.” His rants made him seem ever “more unhinged.” Then again, they might be theatrical, a way to “keep you guessing as to whether he’s just putting you... More »
Recently, James Carville, the unfrozen Clintonite of Democratic politics, stirred a predictable controversy by complaining about “wokeness” in an interview with Sean Illing of Vox. Everyone has a different definition of the term, but Carville’s was one you hea... More »
“It’s a crazy amount, but it also does kind of make sense,” Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple, said on Wednesday, referring to the sixty-nine million dollars that he received, in March, for some of his own work. If Winkelmann sounded like he ... More »
Crew-1, which launched to the space station in November, will head home in the capsule called Resilience.Four astronauts are taking the redeye home to Earth on Saturday.Later this evening, a crew of four — three NASA astronauts and one from Japan’s space agenc... More »
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden has respect for his elders. And there aren’t that many of them.Before the president’s rally near Atlanta on Thursday, he and Jill went out of their way to pay respects to the 96-year-old Jimmy Carter.This made Biden the first president t... More »
