NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was seen yelling and making an obscene hand gesture toward riders on a Carnival parade float, in a video that went viral on social media Sunday (Feb. 19).
It was not known what prompted Cantrell’s outburst. But a statement issued Sunday night by the mayor’s Communications Director Gregory Joseph attempted to portray the incident in a playful light.
“Mardi Gras is a time where satire and jest are on full display,” Joseph wrote. Read More...
WASHINGTON — NASA has agreed to extend operations of its New Horizons spacecraft through late this decade to support “multidisciplinary” science that could include another Kuiper Belt object flyby.
NASA announced Sept. 29 that it would extend New Horizons, currently approved for operations through the end of fiscal year 2024, until the spacecraft exits the Kuiper Belt, which is expected around the end of the decade. The focus of the mission, starting in fiscal year 2025, will be collecting heliophysics data as the spacecraft heads out of the solar system. Read More...
Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters came together Saturday to call for a cease-fire and an end to the siege on the Gaza Strip at a march in Washington, D.C.'s Freedom Plaza. The protest was organized by nine groups and has participation from over 500 groups from around the country, according to organizers.
Photos of the peaceful march, which called for a cease-fire and the end to the Israeli government's siege on Gaza, that started in retaliation of Hamas' surprise terror attack on Israel on Oct. Read More...
