The Latest Breaking News from Earth

St. Patrick's Day revelers in Sacramento, California witnessed an old piece of the space station burn up in the atmosphere on March 17.

I am old enough to remember the late President George H.W. Bush’s promise at the Republican National Convention in 1988 of “Read my lips: no new taxes,” a pledge that he reneged on later in his tenure when he raised taxes in 1990.

The military-industrial-congressional complex seizes on "new Cold War" with Russia and China

For all the attention given in recent days to the “Will they or won’t they?” speculation over the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump to the latest claim of liberal “wokeness” in some educational venue, you can bet that Americans will not spend nearly enough time educating themselves on the latest…

A new United Nations report comes to a definitive but familiar conclusion: We’re not doing nearly enough to prevent disastrous levels of climate change.

Magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits region, with nine people killed when roofs collapse in part of Pakistan

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake that struck much of Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan has killed at least 13 people and injured scores in both countries

Study suggests that four large asteroids have hit the planet in the past one million years

A study conducted by a team led by James Garvin - the Goddard Space Flight Center Chief Scientist - suggests four large asteroids have hit Earth in the last one million years