President Donald Trump's new administration is likely to do away with the White House's National Space Council, a cabinet policy panel that lobbyists at Elon Musk's SpaceX have been pushing to axe, according to three people familiar with the plans.
President Donald Trump set a bold new goal in his inauguration speech. He wants to go to Mars. Details are thin, but the aspiration should benefit Elon Musk’s SpaceX and a bevy of publicly traded commercial space stocks.
Trump administration considers axing the National Space Council as SpaceX gains influence over US space policy.
On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole since 2015, when he was convicted of multiple charges, including the distribution of narcotics.
Pure-play space stocks flew higher on Tuesday, in a rally described as exuberance about the sector after President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
India, with its space agency ISRO, has been a key partner under the Biden administration through the Artemis Accords. The joint NASA-ISRO project, the NISAR satellite, is in its final stages, representing one of the most expensive Earth observation missions. Trump's administration could redefine these collaborations with more such projects.
The second Trump administration started with soaring rhetoric about sending humans to Mars but confusion about who was leading NASA on an acting basis.
President Donald Trump's inauguration, the Right Reverend Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, called on the new president to show “mercy” toward migrants and LGBT individuals. In response,
The Education Department has begun dropping references to “harmful” DEI initiatives from its public-facing communication channels. Additionally, the department has placed employees
In accordance with Trump’s order, the Department of Education also announced Thursday that it had cancelled over $2.6 million worth of DEI training and service contracts; placed all career staff