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“I am very concerned that if we don’t commit the resources now, it will only get harder, and less likely, in the years ahead,” Mr. Daschle wrote in an email. “Now is the time to apply lessons learned.”Updated Aug. 24, 2021, 4:52 p.m. ETSome…

‘Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth,’ by Avi Loeb (2021)In 2017, a telescope in Hawaii noticed a strange object careering through the solar system. Was it just a weirdly behaving comet? Loeb, a prominent…

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said it will spend $1 billion to help communities prepare for worsening disasters, the latest sign of the toll that climate change is already taking across the United States.The change will double the…

Randal K. Quarles, the Fed’s vice chair for bank supervision and regulation, was asked about the critique while testifying before House lawmakers on Wednesday. Mr. Quarles defended the Fed’s attention to climate change as part of…

A critical piece of NASA's giant moon rocket is in good shape, even after a test shot was abruptly canceled after a little over a minute on Saturday, space agency officials said Tuesday.Officials said it was too early to say whether the…

Under a CDC regulation, airlines must comply with these rules in order to be allowed to disembark passengers in the United States.What kind of tests are required?The CDC dictates that negative results must come from a test that can detect…