Doug Loverro, NASA’s associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, has abruptly and unexpectedly resigned from his post, just days before a historic launch. Commercial Crew Demo-2 will take astronauts to the ISS aboard an American spacecraft for the first time since the Space Shuttle was retired, and Loverro was deeply involved. The reasons for…
The government’s chief scientific advisor admitted that vaccines for new viruses are “long shots” and that “only some end up being successful”. Speaking during the Downing Street coronavirus press briefing on Sunday, Sir Patrick Vallance said: “All new vaccines that come into development are long shots. Only some end up being successful.” “Coronavirus will be…
The Chief Medical Officer for Scotland has been obliged to resign after flouting the lockdown rules she promulgated for a break at her second home. Dr Catherine Calderwood had been photographed at her countryside retreat in Earlsferry, Fife, more than an hour’s drive from her main home and place of work in the Scottish capital of…
Phil Spencer said Xbox isn’t interested in virtual reality – at least not right now. He also revealed when Xbox would consider making a VR play. He made the comments on a Gamertag Radio podcast. Xbox head Phil Spencer has once again confirmed that Xbox currently has no interest in exploring virtual reality as it exists…
Fred Fleitz, former CIA official and former National Security Council chief of staff, urged his friend and former boss, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, to withdraw his tell-all book from his publisher “immediately.” Fleitz, who served as Bolton’s chief of staff twice, said it was “crushing” to read weekend press reports that Bolton planned…
Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked House impeachment managers and White House counsel early Wednesday morning after House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler accused the president’s lawyers of lying. Nadler also said that if Senators voted against a Democrat-sponsored procedural amendment requiring that former National Security Advisor John Bolton be subpoenaed — prior to opening…
The government will not have 450 miles of border wall built by the end of 2020, homeland security chief Chad Wolf said at a press event, where he touted the completed construction of 100 miles of wall. “I can tell you right now that we remain confident that we are on track to [reach] 400,…
Fort Worth Police Chief Ed Kraus is encouraging his officers who attend church to wear their uniforms this Sunday both as a deterrent to attacks and as a way to reassure congregants. In the wake of the local attack on the West Freeway Church of Christ last Sunday, as well as the attacks on Jewish…
The Pentagon announced Sunday afternoon that Defense Secretary Mark Esper has asked Navy Secretary Richard Spencer to resign for not telling him that he had a private conversation with the White House over the taking away of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher’s Navy SEAL Trident pin. “Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper has asked for the…
On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s News HQ,” House Democratic Chief Deputy Whip Dan Kildee (D-MI) said he regrets that some Congressional Democrats “had already decided that they wanted to impeach” President Trump before the Ukraine issue came up, but that doesn’t mean we can ignore what we know about Trump’s behavior.…
