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NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold (@astro_ricky) took this selfie during the May 16, 2018, spacewalk to perform upgrades on the International Space Station, saying in a tweet “An amazing view of our one and only planet. #Spacewalk #EVA50.” Arnold and fellow spacewalker Drew Feustel donned spacesuits and worked for more than six hours outside the station to finish upgrading […]
There’s been a great deal of social media outrage and political bluster about a recent legal agreement between the U.S. government and guns rights group Defense Distributed that allowed the group to host files on their website that could make it possible for people to print most of the components of a firearm in the […]
An air tanker drops retardant while fighting to stop the Ferguson Fire from reaching homes in the Darrah community of unincorporated Mariposa Count, Calif., Wednesday, July 25, 2018. AP Photo/Noah Berger See footage of the wildfires burning in California below:
At around noon on Tuesday, alarms sounded at Strangnas Cathedral in Strangnas, Sweden. Law enforcement was immediately alerted, as the cathedral housed Sweden’s valuable and culturally significant crown jewels, but by the time they could arrive, the thieves, and a number of irreplaceable items, were already gone. An early assessment of the daring daytime heist, […]
With added pressure on social media platforms like Facebook to root out concerted foreign efforts to influence democratic elections, Facebook announced on Tuesday that it had removed 32 pages and accounts that were involved in a coordinated effort to influence the results of the 2018 American mid-term elections. This effort, deemed “inauthentic behavior” in a […]
Let’s be honest with each other — an engaging plot isn’t the first thing we think of when we’re headed to the theaters for the latest big-budget blockbuster, but it’s hard to deny that many of our summer “hits” in recent years haven’t turned out to be quite the hit that the studios would have […]
Cars float in floodwater in an open parking area in northern Athens, Thursday, July 26, 2018, after a sudden downpour caused flash floods. The flash flood comes three days after a devastating wildfire northeast of Athens killed at least 82 people and injured more than 180. AP Photo/Panagiotis Michalopoylos See footage of the flooding in […]
A cruise ship operated by Hapag-Lloyd Cruises out of Germany made a scheduled stop on an Arctic archipelago near Norway on Saturday, but before allowing any passengers to disembark, the ship’s four-man polar bear security detail had work to do. Their job was to ensure the area was safe and secure for the customers on […]
Earlier this week, an investigation from the Boston Globe uncovered a TSA program spanning the past eight years that saw federal air marshals secretly following and monitoring U.S. citizens as they flew between domestic destinations. The program, called “Quiet Skies,” had gone undisclosed since its inception in 2010 and remains active today. The program sees […]
There have been a number of fantastic military films released over the past decade — many of which we’ve covered on this site — but it’s hard to deny the shift in the content of these films when compared to the flicks of my childhood, growing up in the ’80s and ’90s. Today, America has […]
The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz MS-09 space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, June 6, 2018. The Russian rocket carries U.S. astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, and German astronaut Alexander Gerst. AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky You can watch […]
It seems like just about every high profile, government-funded endeavor in recent years has been met with repeated delays and constantly swelling budgets. Whether it’s the new Ford class aircraft carrier that came in at around $2.5 billion over budget, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter that remains too expensive to operate, or NASA’s perpetually delayed […]