Major Peake will spend nearly six-and-a-half hours outside the ISS from 12.55pm today as he and Nasa colleague Tim Kopra carry out repairs to a broken power unit.
The EPA said Susan Hedman, head of the agency’s regional office in Chicago whose jurisdiction includes MI, was stepping down February 1 so the EPA could focus “solely on the restoration of Flint’s drinking water”.
Andrew Cuomo issued a travel ban Saturday for New York City and Long Island, including all travel from New Jersey bridges and tunnels into and out of the city.
Tim Peake, who on the mission became the first astronaut from Britain to walk in space, and US astronaut Tim Kopra, had finished the primary goal of their outing when Kopra reported a water bubble had formed in his helmet.
The National Weather Service has issued a Blizzard Watch from Saturday morning through Sunday afternoon for the five boroughs of NY and Long Island, with “heavy snow along with strong and potentially damaging winds”.
Two Michigan Department of Environmental Quality workers were suspended Friday for actions they took related to water testing in Flint, Gov. Rick Snyder said. In 2014, the state tried to save money by switching Flint’s water supply from Detroit to the Flint River. That can...
A senior Dalit professor at the Hyderabad Central University has completely rejected Education Minister Smriti Irani’s account of the role he played in the suspension of Rohith Vemula, a 26-year-old research scholar, who died after allegedly committing suicide on Sunday. He...