by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

At a Peculiar Summit in Papua New Guinea, America Is Still the Odd One Out

APEC delegates attack Donald Trump's trade war and protectionist policies

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Climate change protesters block off 5 London bridges

Hundreds of protesters have turned out in central London and blocked off the capital's main bridges to demand the government take climate change seriously. A group called "Extinction Rebellion" ...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Rural America Is the Real Prison in Showtime's Escape at Dannemora

The real protagonist of director Ben Stiller’s seven-part miniseries based on the 2015 prison break is the fugitives' tailor shop supervisor Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell, who provided them with the contraband tools they used to carve a path to freedom...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Michelle Obama's 'Becoming' Is a Book America Needs, From a Woman It Does Not Yet Deserve

Angie Thomas, author of 'The Hate U Give,' reviews Obama's memoir

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Space station supplies launched, 2nd shipment in 2 days

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A load of space station supplies rocketed into orbit from Virginia on Saturday, the second shipment in two days.

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Could Canada Become the First Country to Mine the Moon?

There's momentum behind the movement, but don't count your space chickens before their moon rocks have hatched.

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Cygnus cargo ship launches to ISS

Wallops Flight Facility (United States) (AFP) - An unmanned Cygnus cargo ship blasted off Saturday toward the International Space Station, marking the second supply mission in 24 hours destined to carry food and supplies to the astronauts living in s...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Number of missing in California fire soars past 1,000 as Trump set to visit

The number of people listed as missing in a northern California wildfire jumped past 1,000 as searchers found the remains of eight more victims on the eve of President Donald Trump's trip to witness the devastation. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea t...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

The weight formerly known as the kilogram is dead

As of today (Nov. 16), the kilogram is dead. The International Prototype “king” Kilogram, held in sanctitude in Paris, has been stripped of its title; a new system for deciding the weight of a kilogram, based on electric current, now take...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

New space industry emerges: on-orbit servicing

"It's literally throwing away hundreds of millions of dollars," Al Tadros, vice president of space infrastructure and civil Space at a company called SSL, said this month at a meeting in the US capital of key players in the emerging field of on-orbit...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Sumatran elephant found dead with missing tusks in Indonesia

A Sumatran elephant has been found dead with its tusks removed in an apparent poaching case targeting the critically endangered animal, an Indonesian conservation official said Friday. The 10-year-old male's rotting corpse was found in Blang Awe vil...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

France braces for travel turmoil as 'yellow vests' take on Macron

French drivers seething over high fuel prices have vowed to snarl traffic across the country Saturday in a widely supported protest that could prove the trickiest so far for President Emmanuel Macron. Anger over fuel costs, blamed on taxes imposed b...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Russian Soyuz blasts off for ISS in first launch since accident

An unmanned rocket carrying cargo blasted off into space on Friday in the first launch of a Russian-made Soyuz-FG rocket from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome since a dramatic aborted launch in October. The rocket took off with a Progress MS-10 spac...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

26-year-old face transplant recipient: 'I see me': Part 1

When he was 24, Cameron Underwood says he was looking for a way out when he decided to try to take his own life.

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Vale ordered to pay tribes $26.8 mn over river contamination

Brasília (AFP) - A Brazil appeals court on Friday ordered mining giant Vale to pay two indigenous tribes $26.8 million over river contamination that harmed public health, the prosecutors' office said Friday. The Onca Puma nickel mine in Brazil's nor...