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Posted on: Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 12:50 CST NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation that allows virtual explorers of all ages to dock the space shuttle at the International Space Station, experience a virtual trip to Mars or a lunar impact, and explore images of star formations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. In an effort to excite young people about space and NASA's missions, the agency has launched the online Space Communication and Navigation simulation, designed to entertain and...

Posted  | Comment  | Recommend | | | By Chuck Raasch, Gannett WASHINGTON — The 2010 census about to start will provide a fascinating composite of America, but it won't be the whole picture. The census is expected to show that under 30 are far more racially diverse than their elders, the vanguard of a change that could see whites fall below 50% of the population by mid-century. The census is also expected to show continuing migration to the South and West, although the recession slowed the trend as the decade ended. But while we see the census as a snapshot of the U.S., and many trends will be noted and conclusions drawn from it, there have been some important changes...

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk found vindication in the Sunday New York Times for his argument that the United States government is not doing enough to clamp down on corporations that help Iran develop its energy sector. Kirk co-sponsored a bill that would allow President Obama to impose sanctions on any...

Mayor Daley conspicuously refused today to give embattled Fire Commissioner John Brooks a vote of confidence, dodging questions about Brooks’ flippant response to an underling’s sexual harassment allegation. The Chicago Sun-Times reported last week that a payroll auditor in the Chicago Fire Department had accused Brooks of calling her repeatedly, coming on to her sexually and targeting her to be laid off from her city job when she...

WASHINGTON — The Navy says that three dogs died and dozens more were in poor health after being neglected by a...

WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama will be the featured graduation speaker at three commencement ceremonies this spring. Mrs. Obama will...

CHICAGO — With the public still furious over bank bailouts, Democrats desperate to keep President Barack Obama's old Senate seat are scrambling to counter revelations that a bank owned by their candidate's family may be nearing collapse. Alexi Giannoulias, the first-term Illinois state treasurer and an old basketball buddy of Obama's, has tried to answer away questions about the bank's troubles, saying he hasn't worked there in four years and that it was victim of the same real estate slump that hurt the rest of the economy. Republicans have been quick to portray him as a failed businessman, citing the bank's financial woes and his involvement in loans to a convicted bookmaker....

Gordon Brown tonight hailed as "the final end" to the Irish peace process a decision by the Northern Ireland Assembly to devolve policing and justice powers from Westminster, as a political row continued over David Cameron's relationship with the Ulster Unionist Party. Today's vote on the Hillsborough Agreement brokered between the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein ends recent instability in the province's power-sharing institutions, caused by a lengthy standoff between the two parties and exacerbated by a sexual...

WASHINGTON -- First lady Michelle Obama will be the featured graduation speaker at three commencement ceremonies this spring. Mrs. Obama...

The Democratic candidates for governor are tightly bunched with no...

WASHINGTON -- The Navy says that three dogs died and dozens more were in poor health...

Senator Blanche Lincoln pushed hard on Tuesday to back off her recent openness to reconciliation. Earlier this morning, Lincoln told the Associated Press, in response to two questions about whether she would support reconciliation, that she wanted to see what was in the bill. In Washington, that's considered a signal that someone is openly considering voting yes. But apparently Lincoln was only interested in reading the...

With health care reform legislation likely coming down to only a handful of votes in the House of Representatives, Dennis Kucinich stands alone as seemingly the only liberal purist opposing the bill. After he appeared on MSNBC Monday night to reiterate his opposition, the Ohio Democrat was asked by the Huffington Post whether he is worried that the failure to pass legislation will seriously hurt his party. Maybe so, Kucinich conceded. But passing a bill that was a "giveaway to the insurance industry" would be just as damaging to the party's prospects. Reform for the sake of action is not a virtue and...

Kathleen Sebelius plans to take the administration's argument for health care reform straight to the enemy this week. In a letter to top insurance lobbyist Karen Ignagni, Sebelius asks to...

A new Harvard University poll of young voters shows a variety of disheartening trends for Democrats heading into the November midterm elections. The poll shows young Republicans to be more enthusiastic and energized about the 2010 midterm elections than their Democratic peers. Forty-one percent of young Republicans are planning on voting in...

 

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