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WASHINGTON — The head of NASA’s exploration programs is leaving the agency in the latest leadership shakeup since the start of the Trump administration.NASA announced Feb. 24 that Cathy Koerner would retire from the agency at the end of the week as associate administrator for exploration systems development. Koerner has served in that role since the end of 2023.Koerner spent 34 years at NASA in various roles, including Orion program manager and deputy associate administrator for exploration systems development. She took the position of associate administrator for exploration systems development when Jim Free, the previous person in that role, became…
Este artículo también está disponible en español. In an X post published today, crypto market analyst and commentator Ali Martinez highlighted a crucial Ethereum (ETH) price level that must hold to sustain hopes for an altseason. Martinez warned that losing this support could significantly derail any potential altcoin rally. Ethereum Must Defend Key Price Level Ethereum, the second-largest digital asset by market cap, continues to trade in the mid-$2,000 range. At the time of writing, ETH is priced just below $2,700, offering bulls a glimmer of optimism for a potential breakout above the $3,000 resistance level. Related Reading However, in…
A handful of President Donald Trump administration officials are publicly listing their top accomplishments for the previous work week following Department of Government Efficiency Chair (DOGE) Elon Musk announcing federal employees must provide a bullet-point list of work successes before midnight on Monday or risk losing their jobs. “Mr. President, 5 things I did last week:” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted to X Monday morning. “1. Terminated NYC elitist, anti-worker congestion pricing. 2. Launched an investigation into the $16 billion in taxpayer dollars wasted on a high-speed rail project that, after 17 years, has yet to lay a single mile of…
Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…
Tesla Cybercabs have been spotted being tested in increasing volumes at the company’s Texas Gigafactory, as spotted this week in drone footage from the Austin plant. In posts on X and from a construction update video on Monday, Giga Texas observer and drone pilot Joe Tegtmeyer shared photos of the recently unveiled Cybercab testing at the facility. Interestingly, the photos also clearly show that the vehicle includes a steering wheel and human operator, adding to continued speculation that the Cybercab platform could be related to the company’s plans for a more affordable mass-market vehicle for consumers. Tegtmeyer says it was…
CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter said although Elon Musk’s demand that federal employees list things they accomplished at work last week “sounds like common sense” to Americans, it is actually “nonsense.”Stelter commented on Musk, who works with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), sending out emails on Saturday to federal employees requiring them to list what they did the prior week at their job. Employees have until 11:59 pm on Monday to send the list of accomplishments or lose their employment, according to emails regarding Musk’s directive that were sent by the Office of Personnel Management.”The starting point here is…
Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has assembled a team of technical experts to support the Trump administration’s Iron Dome missile-defense initiative. This “integrated planning team” brings wide-ranging expertise that will be critical in laying out the missile-shield architecture to defend the U.S. homeland from missile threats, the Space Force’s chief of space operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told reporters Feb. 24.“We are leaning forward establishing this technical IPT to start thinking about it from an overarching perspective,” Saltzman said.The “Iron Dome for America” executive order, signed by President Donald Trump on January 27, directs Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to…
A federal employee argued that the demand by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) of an account of what she accomplished the past week was “clearly an attempt to harass” the workforce.DOGE chief Elon Musk announced that federal employees must report their accomplishments from the last week or potentially face losing their jobs, which roiled the federal workforce as some Democratic lawmakers and unions call on employees to flout the directive. On Monday afternoon, MT Snyder, a Field Examiner for the National Labor Relations Board, spoke to CNN host Brianna Keilar about how outraged she was by the email. A federal…
He loves the grand show, does Elon Musk. Whether it’s entering the headquarters of Twitter, his new purchase, carrying a kitchen sink, warning of the cuts to come – or revelling in being handed a chainsaw on stage and boasting of slashing bureaucracy – he’s someone for the dramatic. There’s a tendency to regard what he does as somehow new and arresting, as if we’ve not been here before. But we have. In the UK, politicians would throw screeds of computer printouts in the air at their party conferences to indicate how they would be eradicating government waste. To cheers,…