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Four NASA senior officials working on the agency’s moon program, Artemis, will retire this week. These officials were part of the team that succeeded in launching Artemis I as “the first flight test of the integrated Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket,” according to NASA’s website. The unmanned rocket flew 40,000 miles beyond the…

President Donald Trump is thinking of adding local government to his list of responsibilities. Returning to Washington, D.C., from Florida late Wednesday, he mused that the federal government should “take over” the district. “I think that we should govern the District of Columbia,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. “I think that we should run it strong,…

(The Center Square) – The Colorado House Education Committee passed a bipartisan bill Wednesday requiring all public schools to have a policy on cellphones. House Bill 1135 requires that schools decide on a specific policy on student use of a “communication device,” but it does not specify what that policy should be. The committee voted nearly unanimously,…

(The Center Square) – The battle within the Arizona government raged on this week as Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a Republican proposal for faster election results, citing increased restrictions on voters. Arizona Republicans, who have majorities in both the state Senate and House, have called the legislation, House Bill 2703, one of their most important…

(The Center Square) – California gas prices have risen “an average of $0.38 per gallon since the event and may increase further” since a Feb. 1 fire shut down the Martinez refinery that produces 10% of the state’s gasoline capacity, according to a new letter from the state’s Division of Petroleum Market Oversight.  The letter…

(The Center Square) – Nonprofit status of the billion-dollar NCAA could be next in the crosshairs, says a North Carolina congressman. The organization generating nearly $1.3 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2023, anchored by March Madness, has been scorched for its policies allowing men to compete in women’s athletics, use women’s locker rooms, and…

(The Center Square) – Chicago’s city council has tabled consideration of an $830 million bond issue favored by the mayor. Mayor Brandon Johnson wanted the bond money for infrastructure projects, even though the additional debt would cost taxpayers millions of dollars in the future. The city council met Wednesday and deferred a potential vote on…

(The Center Square) – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is catching flack for referencing Nazis when criticizing President Donald Trump. The last part of Pritzker’s speech Wednesday included references to Nazis six times as he discussed the election of Trump to the White House. “If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider…

TRUMP UNLOADS ON ZELENSKY: They say nothing good comes after the words “with all due respect.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, after prefacing with that qualifier and insisting that as the leader of the American people, President Donald Trump is someone “who we respect a lot,” went on to defend himself against Trump’s false claims about…