At least four Republican senators, including the Senate majority leader, signaled their opposition to Paul Ingrassia, the president’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel.
The president had pledged that construction wouldn’t “interfere with the current building,” a promise that always seemed unrealistic given the grand scale of the plans.
Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud services, cited a problem at its data center in Northern Virginia. The outage highlighted the fragility of global internet infrastructure.
Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, and Lockheed Martin are among the contractors that may compete with Elon Musk’s company in the race back to the lunar surface.
Deployment can move forward, for now, under a preliminary ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. But legal wrangling will likely continue.
The man, Billy J. Cagle, 49, was arrested after family members told the police that he was headed to the airport, “in their words, ‘to shoot it up,’” Atlanta’s police chief said.
The United States hopes to become less dependent on China by increasing access to mineral-rich countries. Rare earth metals are vital to an array of modern industries.
It’s not a presidential election year, or even the midterms, but races this fall will offer a sense of voters’ moods in the first year of the new Trump administration.
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The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has suspended its aid operations because of the cease-fire, but it is also running low on funds and faces logistical obstacles to resuming its work.
Some 23 million voters have received mail ballots for the Nov. 4 election. The only statewide measure this fall is a redistricting plan spearheaded by Gov. Gavin Newsom.