The country’s justice minister said the right-wing former president bears “a political responsibility” for the attack on “the buildings of the three branches of powers, aiming at a coup d’état.” Brazilian Justice Minister Flávio Dino said Monday that “about 1,500” people have been arrested since supporters of Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro attacked government buildings in […]
WASHINGTON — As newly ascendant House Republicans get down to business, they’re vowing to forge ahead with long-promised investigations of the Biden administration, from the U.S. military’s chaotic and bloody withdrawal from Afghanistan to the alleged weaponization of the Justice Department and the FBI. Shrugging off accusations that they’re about to launch revenge hearings as payback […]
“It’s telling that the very first action of the incoming MAGA Republican-led House was to kneecap a bipartisan office that oversees congressional ethics.” In one of their first acts in the majority, House Republicans on Monday approved a rules package that will dramatically hinder the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent body tasked with investigating […]
NASA’s retired Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) reentered Earth’s atmosphere at 11:04 p.m. EST on Sunday, Jan. 8, after almost four decades in space. For 21 of its years in orbit, the ERBS actively investigated how the Earth absorbed and radiated energy from the Sun, and made measurements of stratospheric ozone, water vapor, nitrogen dioxide, […]