• Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket lifts off from Florida in debut mission
    CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launched its first New Glenn rocket early Thursday morning from Florida, an inaugural step into Earth’s orbit to rival SpaceX in the satellite launch market. (Reporting by Joey Roulette; Editing by Himani Sarkar) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com
  • Trump’s pick to oversee US public lands faces Senate hearing
    Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is due before a Senate committee Thursday as lawmakers consider the Republican’s nomination to be chief steward of U.S. public lands and waters. President-elect Donald Trump in November tapped Burgum to be interior secretary and to lead the new National Energy Council, which is charged with promoting oil, gas […]
  • Banning cellphones in schools gains popularity in red and blue states
    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas’ Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom have little in common ideologically, but the two have both been vocal supporters of an idea that’s been rapidly gaining bipartisan ground in the states: Students’ cellphones need to be banned during the school day. At least eight […]
  • The Kellogg Foundation CEO shares her own life story to foster more racial healing
    La June Montgomery Tabron believes many Americans have a desire for racial healing. They just don’t know how to start. “It may sound mysterious or challenging,” said Montgomery Tabron, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s first woman and first Black CEO. “But it’s actually quite simple.” It starts, she says, with a conversation — with the sharing […]
  • Some immigrants are already leaving the US in ‘self-deportations’ as Trump’s threats loom
    TRACY, Calif. (AP) — Michel Bérrios left the United States a few days before the new year, giving President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign for mass deportations a small victory before they even started. A former leader of a Nicaraguan student uprising, Bérrios had been in the U.S. legally, with nearly a year remaining under President Joe […]