A team led by University of Washington astronomers has discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter over half a kilometer. The asteroid — found while analyzing data from the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory and dubbed 2025 MN45 — is 0.4 miles in diameter and completes a full rotation every 1.88 minutes. The study […]
“Targeting children—our babies—is beyond the pale. ICE is completely out of control and beyond fixing,” said Minnesota’s lieutenant governor. Federal immigration agents have detained at least four children from Minnesota public schools over the past two weeks, including a 5-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl who were both sent to Texas detention centers that have come under fire for grotesque conditions. Zena Stenvik, the […]
The Minnesota Star-Tribune described “plumes of green and gray smoke” that “burst over the crowd.” US Customs and Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino on Tuesday was caught on video throwing a gas grenade at lawful protesters in Minneapolis on the same day that a court temporarily lifted restrictions on federal immigration agents’ use of force in the […]
On January 23rd, 1969, the United States Senate, on a vote of 73 to 16, confirmed Walter J. Hickel as the Secretary of the Interior. Prior to this, Hickel was elected to the Governorship of Alaska in 1966. He stepped down from this position to accespt the Secretary of Interior appointment. Hickel had initially turned […]