• Here’s how it feels when COVID-19 symptoms last for months

    Here’s how it feels when COVID-19 symptoms last for months

    Nov 27, 2020 06:45 PM EDT

    ... lasting damage. After the seizure, I lay in my bedroom for weeks with the curtains drawn, because light and sound had started to hurt. The search for answers I did not understand why I was not recovering. I began searching for answers online. I found a support group for people ...

  • China launches mission to bring back material from moon surface

    China launches mission to bring back material from moon surface

    Nov 24, 2020 01:51 AM EDT

    ... in July became one of three countries to have launched a mission to Mars, in China's case an orbiter and a rover that will search for signs of water on the red planet. The CNSA says the spacecraft Tianwen 1 is on course to arrive at Mars around February ...

  • Moon holds more water in more places than ever thought

    Moon holds more water in more places than ever thought

    Oct 26, 2020 08:17 PM EDT

    ... cold polar environments and tap into deep shadowed craters for water, he asked, or to dig into the moon at the milder middle latitudes in search of water. "I can certainly envision ways that robots might be beneficial in all of those," Bleacher said. NASA plans to launch a water ...

  • Joe Biden picks California Sen. Kamala Harris as running mate

    Joe Biden picks California Sen. Kamala Harris as running mate

    Aug 11, 2020 08:20 PM EDT

    Biden’s search was expansive, including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a leading progressive, Florida Rep. Val Demings, whose impeachment prosecution of Trump won plaudits, California Rep. Karen Bass, who leads the Congressional Black Caucus, former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, whose passionate response ...

  • Trump orders ban on dealings with Chinese owners of TikTok, WeChat

    Trump orders ban on dealings with Chinese owners of TikTok, WeChat

    Aug 07, 2020 12:52 PM EDT

    ... federal databases and the credit agency Equifax. In China, the Communist Party limits what foreign tech companies can do and blocks access to the Google search engine, Facebook, Twitter and other social media, along with thousands of websites operated by news organizations and human rights, pro-democracy and other activist ...

  • 'Into the Wild' bus likely lands a home at Fairbanks museum

    'Into the Wild' bus likely lands a home at Fairbanks museum

    Jul 31, 2020 03:04 AM EDT

    ... River on such visits to the bus, one from Switzerland in 2010 and the other from Belarus nine years later. There have been 15 other search-and-rescue missions since 2009, state officials said, including five Italian tourists who needed rescue last winter. One had severe frostbite. The draw of ...

  • Russian voters appear to approve constitutional changes that could extend Putin's reign

    Russian voters appear to approve constitutional changes that could extend Putin's reign

    Jul 01, 2020 10:45 PM EDT

    ... slipped in the last year, but remain high. So far, he has played coy, and has yet to say if he will stand for another term in office, even if he is allowed to. Ekaterina Schulmann: It's necessary to preserve this option, this possibility, in order to prevent the ...

  • Russian voters agree to extend Putin's rule to 2036

    Russian voters agree to extend Putin's rule to 2036

    Jul 01, 2020 06:29 PM EDT

    ... any other Kremlin leader since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin — said he would decide later whether to run again in 2024. He argued that resetting the term count was necessary to keep his lieutenants focused on their work instead of “darting their eyes in search for possible successors.” Analyst Gleb Pavlovsky ...

  • Klobuchar urges Biden to pick nonwhite woman as running mate

    Klobuchar urges Biden to pick nonwhite woman as running mate

    Jun 19, 2020 02:00 PM EDT

    ... who are crucial to Democratic victories. Her best finish of the primary was in overwhelmingly white New Hampshire, where she came in third. The third-term senator had to cancel one of the final rallies of her campaign after Black Lives Matter and other activists took the stage in Minnesota ...

  • Trump administration tries to narrow stockpile's role for states

    Trump administration tries to narrow stockpile's role for states

    Apr 03, 2020 10:24 PM EDT

    ... medicines and equipment should play in supplying states' needs. The change conforms with President Donald Trump’s insistence that the stockpile is only a short-term backup for states, not a commitment to ensure supplies get quickly to those who need them most during an emergency, the latest front in ...