NASA’s unprecedented rescue mission to save aging telescope from falling to Earth – CBS News Watch CBS News There’s an urgent mission to save NASA’s Swift Observatory, which is falling back into the Earth’s atmosphere and at risk of burning up. Mark Strassmann reports on the rescue operation. Source link
Caracas — The race to find survivors continued Tuesday six days after powerful twin earthquakes devastated northern Venezuela. A NASA assessment based on satellite imagery suggests almost 60,000 buildings may have been damaged or destroyed, and teams from all over the world have joined increasingly frantic efforts to find anyone still trapped alive under the rubble….
London – Prince Harry is exploring “every available option” to bring his wife Meghan and their children along on his next visit to the U.K., expected next month, representatives for the royal couple said Tuesday. An ongoing dispute over security provisions for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is complicating those plans, however. CBS News’…
Benjamin Pinckney, 46, has dreamed of becoming a physician assistant since just after his 20th birthday. He had been targeted by a drive-by shooter in Jacksonville, Florida, and hospitalized with two gunshot wounds. During his weeklong hospitalization, he said, a physician assistant changed the course of his life by visiting his hospital bed each day…
Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica, tucked away for decades in a drawer. The bone comes from the tail of a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur called a titanosaur. Scientists haven’t yet identified the species it belongs to. It was discovered in 1985 during an expedition to Antarctica’s James Ross Island and collected…
An agreement signed four days ago between the Israeli and Lebanese governments, which links Israel pulling its forces out of southern Lebanon with Hezbollah being disarmed, could effectively keep Israeli troops in the neighboring nation indefinitely, analysts say, and that could make a final peace deal between the U.S. and Iran harder to achieve. Hezbollah…
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday delivered a major setback to ballot measures aimed at handing Democrats as many of seven of Colorado’s eight Congressional seats. The initiatives are part of a national redistricting fight that gained momentum after President Trump urged Republican-led states to redraw their congressional maps. So far, Republicans and Democrats in 10 states…
Japanese police are investigating another suspected fatal bear attack, a local official told AFP on Tuesday, as the number of such deaths remains unusually high. Bear attacks have been on the rise in Japan in recent years, something scientists attribute to a spike in the animals’ population and a declining number of people in rural…
Washington — Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. of New Jersey is expected to return to Capitol Hill on Tuesday after an undisclosed ailment kept him out of public view for months. Kean, who is running for a third term in a competitive district, last voted on March 5 and has missed more than 140 votes…
Washington — One week after Democratic insurgent victories in New York, the focus is now moving to Colorado, where challenges in a trio of races are threatening candidates backed by the party establishment — Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper and Rep. Diana DeGette. Bennet, who’s represented Colorado in the upper chamber since 2009, had…
