The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary have arrived at the International Space Station, ferried there by SpaceX on a private flight CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, ferried there…
Over the past several months, Republican lawmakers in at least 10 states have introduced measures aimed at undermining same-sex marriage rights. These measures, many of which were crafted with the help of the anti-marriage equality group MassResistance, seek to ask the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell. MassResistance told NBC News that while these proposals face…
President Donald Trump has called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long-running corruption trial a “witch hunt” and called for it to be canceled. “Such a WITCH HUNT, for a man who has given so much, is unthinkable to me,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday. He added that he had…
Dangerously hot and humid conditions are choking nearly the entire eastern half of the United States this week, caused by a “heat dome” that’s parked over parts of the country. Heat alerts were in effect Wednesday for around 150 million people. Temperatures over 95 degrees Fahrenheit were widespread across the Ohio Valley and through the…
WASHINGTON — A top Justice Department official boasted at a private Republican gathering that the Trump administration was able to kill a Texas law that gave undocumented immigrants in-state tuition “in six hours” by coordinating with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, according to a recording obtained by NBC News. On June 4, the Justice Department…
Around the NBA, it’s often said that a draft class can’t be evaluated for at least two years to see who the true winners, losers, breakout stars and disappointments were. But what would be the fun in that? As soon as the 2025 draft’s first round wrapped Wednesday night in Brooklyn, New York, NBC News…
BOSTON — A Harvard University researcher accused of smuggling clawed frog embryos into the United States was indicted Wednesday on additional charges. Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist conducting cancer research for Harvard Medical School, was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Boston on one count of concealment of a material fact, one count…
BANGKOK — Thailand’s government is moving to recriminalize cannabis, plunging into limbo an industry estimated to be worth over $1 billion that has boomed since the substance was taken off the country’s narcotics list in 2022. The push to impose new controls on recreational use of cannabis comes after the Bhumjaithai Party, which championed its…
WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s views on vaccines loomed over Susan Monarez’s Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday to be the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Monarez, who has a doctorate in microbiology and immunology, was previously the deputy director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency…
QUITO, Ecuador — A fugitive drug trafficker wanted by authorities in Ecuador and the United States was recaptured more than a year after he escaped from prison in the Andean nation, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa announced Wednesday. José Adolfo Macías, alias “Fito,” who led a gang called “Los Choneros” in Ecuador and has been indicted…
