On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole since 2015, when he was convicted of multiple charges, including the distribution of narcotics.
Donald Trump's executive order calls for the federal government to define sex as only male or female and for that to be reflected on official documents such as passports and policies such as federal prison assignments.
President Donald Trump's new administration is likely to do away with the White House's National Space Council, a cabinet policy panel that lobbyists at Elon Musk's SpaceX have been pushing to axe, according to three people familiar with the plans.
President Donald Trump set a bold new goal in his inauguration speech. He wants to go to Mars. Details are thin, but the aspiration should benefit Elon Musk’s SpaceX and a bevy of publicly traded commercial space stocks.
Trump did not address how his Mars call might affect NASA’s current plans for a Moon mission. NASA in December pushed back the anticipated launch dates for the Artemis II and Artemis III crewed lunar missions. Artemis II is now scheduled for April 2026 and Artemis III for mid-2027.
India, with its space agency ISRO, has been a key partner under the Biden administration through the Artemis Accords. The joint NASA-ISRO project, the NISAR satellite, is in its final stages, representing one of the most expensive Earth observation missions. Trump's administration could redefine these collaborations with more such projects.
In 2019, then US President Donald Trump announced for the first time that the United States should "buy Greenland". Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen pointed out that Greenla
The second Trump administration started with soaring rhetoric about sending humans to Mars but confusion about who was leading NASA on an acting basis.
President Donald Trump's inauguration, the Right Reverend Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, called on the new president to show “mercy” toward migrants and LGBT individuals. In response,
Trump administration considers axing the National Space Council as SpaceX gains influence over US space policy.