WASHINGTON — The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National Academies report concludes. The report, A Science Strategy for the ...

President Donald Trump is urging a federal court to continue blocking publication of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final report on the classified-documents investigation—an inquiry that began ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Blue states have repeatedly tried to rein in CPCs. But as faith-based organizations, ...

The Wake County Sheriff’s Office has identified a woman killed in a 1968 homicide using partner agencies and advancements in forensic genealogy. On Thursday, the sheriff’s office and State Bureau of ...

Former New York State Trooper Jamie Kasper alleges she was wrongly terminated from her job after testing positive for amphetamine. A second test, including a hair sample, was negative and her attorney ...

The opening weekend of Washington’s modern firearm deer season got the state more than 300 samples to test for chronic wasting disease. Staci Lehman, a WDFW spokesperson, said in an email that a total ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A First Amendment group and watchdog organization pressed a federal appeals court on Tuesday to compel the release of a Justice Department special counsel’s report on the criminal ...

Meanwhile, previously secret passages in court filings over grand jury fights in two cases against the president have been revealed. By Charlie Savage Charlie Savage writes about national security and ...

The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner lists the Celeste Rivas Hernandez case as #14252. To the family, friends, and community members who loved her, however, she was much more than ...

The recent report released by Energy Secretary Chris Wright on the climate impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the U.S. has caused quite a stir in the climate science arena. “Outrage,” ...