This week, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration awarded grants to 14 visionaries as part of its Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC). The grants will fund projects in experimental space technology. Each of the NIAC grants is worth $175,000. The 14 recipients are from nine different states. 10 of the recipients are first-time winners. UCLA’s…

Newly installed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is wasting no time in making legislative moves. He’s already led Republicans in a vote to slash $114 billion in funding for the IRS, a mostly symbolic move since the Senate is expected to strike down the bill. McCarthy’s historic difficulty in gaining the speaker’s gavel – it took…

C-SPAN’s Co-CEO Susan Swain is asking House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to allow her organization’s cameras in the House chamber full time. Swain is renewing the perennial request after experiencing success covering the 15 ballot House Speaker vote. “C-SPAN, a private not-for-profit public affairs network, commits to covering House debates in the same manner we…

Rep. George Santos (R-NY) remains embroiled in controversy over a series of lies about his career and personal life. Santos, a Republican who was elected in November to represent New York’s 3rd congressional district, has admitted he fabricated parts of his resume and aspects of his personal life, such as claiming he was Jewish (he’s…

Some of the top athletes in the nation’s four major sports have teamed up to begin investing in farmland across the country. Their first investment is the purchase of a 104-acre, corn and soy-focused farm in northern Iowa, where they will lease the land to farmers and seek a single-digit-percentage annual return on the total…

The House launches new investigations; California braces for more rain and flooding; and all flights have been grounded by order of the FAA. These stories and more highlight the morning rundown for Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. Flights grounded following FAA outage The FAA is fixing a nationwide technical outage and grounded all domestic flights in…

House Republicans voted Monday night to strip the Internal Revenue Service of $72 billion in funds secured by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., characterized one of his first legislative moves as a “promise kept.” “I guess I question why they made the promise in the first place,” said Marc Goldwein,…

China retaliates against travel restrictions; New Jersey’s gun law on hold and the Golden Globes are back. These stories and more highlight your midday rundown for Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. New Jersey gun law hits legal roadblock New Jersey’s gun law, signed in December, was immediately met with legal challenges that are now playing out…

It’s now obvious whether it was Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp, the federal government actively tried to censor content it didn’t like about COVID-19 on social media platforms. According to a new Twitter Files dump, a Pfizer executive was also interested in censoring posts. Independent journalist Alex Berenson reported the latest Twitter Files findings. On…

As President Biden visited the Texas border town of El Paso last Sunday, the Republican governor of the Lone Star State, Greg Abbott, accused the president of “avoiding sites where mass immigration occurs” and arriving “two years too late.” Others in the GOP are employing a more diplomatic tone. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is leading…