NASA and SpaceX have cleared the Demo-2 mission for May 27, will be the first launch of astronauts on an American rocket from American soil since 2011 ~space Article 448 words 12 votes
The birth of NASAs space program | The Saturn V story ~space spaceflight rocketry Video 11:13 5 votes
Interview with Elon Musk on his Twitter usage, selling off his possessions, and the historic upcoming launch ~tech social media Article 7 votes
CNBC reporter makes fake news website with plagiarized content, gets approved by ad tech companies ~tech Article 2411 words, published May 17 2020 10 votes
Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery video charged with murder ~news usa.ga.brunswick crime.hate Link 9 votes
America’s deadly obsession with intellectual property: Privatizing life-saving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad both for the coronavirus and the climate crisis ~tech Article 1408 words 9 votes
Ahmaud Arbery was lynched: He was killed in the street by White men. That’s how lynchings work ~life Article 3129 words 13 votes
Few US prisoners have been released since beginning of the pandemic: Nearly 3/4s of those held at jails are pretrial--meaning thousands of legally innocent individuals face a potential death sentence ~health Article 1640 words 7 votes
How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history ~humanities.history Article 3263 words 8 votes
Scientists say social distancing has worked really well to reduce coronavirus's spread: new study finds measures saved thirty-five million Americans from contracting the virus ~health medicine Article 603 words 6 votes
How America is victim-blaming the coronavirus dead: As racism warps the US pandemic response, a health crisis has escalated into a culture war ~health Article 2023 words 5 votes
CDC is conflating viral and antibody tests. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same. ~health Article 542 words 10 votes
The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’ ~humanities.history Article 4106 words 9 votes
‘How can I be sick?’ Woman who took hydroxychloroquine for nineteen years to treat lupus still got COVID-19. ~health medicine Article 456 words 13 votes
Johnson & Johnson to stop selling baby powder in US and Canada after tens of thousands of lawsuits from consumers claiming its talc products, including Johnson’s Baby Powder, caused their cancer ~science chemistry medicine Article 374 words 10 votes
Florida COVID-19 data chief gets sidelined and researchers cry foul ~health Article 1390 words 13 votes
We’re not polarized enough: Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics ~books reviews Article 3854 words 5 votes
America’s only public bank, the Bank of North Dakota, is number one in saving small businesses ~finance banking economics business.small Article 334 words 10 votes
United States seeks to change the rules for mining the Moon ~space spaceflight.commercial Article 918 words 6 votes
Roe of “Roe v. Wade” says Christian right paid her to be anti-choice mouthpiece ~humanities religion Article 608 words 17 votes
S-Town podcast producers settle lawsuit with subject’s estate: suit filed in 2018 alleged the podcast used McLemore’s identity for a commercial purpose, violating Alabama's Right of Publicity law ~lgbt Article 593 words 3 votes
NASA will likely add a rendezvous test to the first piloted Orion space mission ~space spaceflight.crewed Article 2073 words 4 votes
How fast are people returning to pre-COVID lifestyles? ~health Article 325 words, published May 11 2020 3 votes
What will it take to prevent a new Great Depression in the USA? Around $10,000,000,000,000 (ten trillion dollars). ~finance economics Article 505 words 9 votes
Two churches reclose after faith leaders and congregants get coronavirus ~health Article 901 words 10 votes
It’s time to get on the bidet train, America ~health Article 2065 words, published May 5 2020 19 votes
Nearly a third of small, independent farmers are facing bankruptcy by the end of 2020, new survey says ~food Article 2137 words 6 votes
US President Donald Trump says he is taking hydroxychloroquine to protect against coronavirus, dismissing safety concerns ~health medicine Article 332 words 21 votes
Pulling seven G's in an F-16 and going supersonic with US Air Force Thunderbirds ~science physics Video 29:57 4 votes
Explosive whistleblower complaint by ousted US Health and Human Services official says he was pressured to give contract to Donald Trump-friendly pharma firm ~health Article 615 words, published May 5 2020 11 votes
The coming disruption - Scott Galloway predicts a handful of elite universities and tech companies will soon monopolize higher education ~humanities education.higher Article 2536 words, published May 11 2020 6 votes
America’s largest media labor union launches historic advocacy campaign to save industry: "having robust news operations at the local and state level is fundamentally good for democratic stability." ~news journalism usa Article 649 words 12 votes
Remdesivir distribution causes confusion, leaves some US hospitals empty-handed ~health healthcare medicine Article 1052 words, published May 14 2020 4 votes
Here’s what an antitrust case against Google might look like: Two DOJ veterans lay out a roadmap for cracking down on the company’s digital advertising juggernaut ~tech google Article 717 words 4 votes