The Shenzhou-17 crew members on board China’s orbiting Tiangong space station completed their first extravehicular activities, or spacewalk, at 21:35 on Thursday, according to the China Manned Space Agency. Three Chinese astronauts Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie, and Jiang Xinlin collaborated to pull off all planned tasks with the assistance of […]

Paul Whelan, the U.S. Marine veteran who has been imprisoned in Russia for several years on what critics have said are false charges, said he fears the United States has left him behind and called inaction by successive presidential administrations “a serious betrayal.” In a phone interview from his prison […]

If there had been a Daughter of the Year award, this Mississippi woman likely would have won it for the Christmas present she gave her father this year. Lindsey Moore posted a video to her TikTok of her Secret Santa gift to him, fulfilling a promise she made to herself […]

The Biden administration said on Tuesday it was taking the first step toward writing key standards and guidance for the safe deployment of generative artificial intelligence and how to test and safeguard systems. The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) said it was seeking public input by […]

After one Colorado sheriff had to be convinced to spread holiday cheer, the rest of his office conducted quite the operation to get a massive Christmas tree into their new department lobby. “Those who’ve seen our beautiful new employee entrance know it is big, open, and shockingly EMPTY,” Larimer County […]

Public school teachers in Nevada’s most populous county now have a new contract after months of negotiations. According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, an arbitrator on Wednesday accepted a new contract for the 18,000 teachers in the Clark County School District, which is the fifth-largest in the nation and […]

Cruise passengers were shocked after their ship, which was originally bound for the Bahamas, was forced to re-route to Boston, Maine and Canada over “unseasonable” weather changes.  MSC Meraviglia ship passengers Lakeya Allen and Val Montgomery detailed their reaction to the unexpected news and how they have made the most […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Tuesday it has approved the first test to assess if there is a risk of opioid use addiction in certain individuals. The test, AvertD, is developed by privately held SOLVD Health. The FDA granted the approval to AutoGenomics, a unit that […]

Mexico’s army appears to be raiding only a handful of active drug labs every month, despite U.S. pressure to crack down on fentanyl trafficking, with facilities that were already out of use accounting for 95% of seizures this year, according to defense ministry figures obtained by Reuters. Reuters revealed in […]

The Christmas holiday falls on a Monday this year, and the NFL has taken advantage by putting games across the weekend from Dec. 23 and into Christmas Day. Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs welcome the Las Vegas Raiders into Arrowhead Stadium on Monday for a 1 p.m. ET […]