Daily Archives: 04/17/2020


Online Gamers Hone Skills in Pandemic

Esports, organized video gaming, is finding a new role in the COVID-19 pandemic, as people locked down at home try to keep up their competitive skills.  Mike O’Sullivan reports that students at two California colleges meet online weekly in virtual …


NASA Announces First SpaceX Crewed Flight for May 27

NASA announced on Friday that a SpaceX rocket would  send two American astronauts to the International Space Station on May 27, the first crewed spaceflight from the U.S. in nearly a decade.”On May 27, @NASA will once again launch American …


Santa Fe Market Gets First Female Native American Leader

The organizers of the annual Santa Fe Indian Market have selected a new executive director, marking the first time in the history of the Southwestern Association of Indian Arts that a Native American woman will lead the organization.  The association …


2 NASA Astronauts, Russian Cosmonaut Return to Earth From ISS

Two U.S. space agency NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut landed Friday in Kazakhstan after months on board the International Space Station.   NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir and Russian space agency Roscosmos Cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka undocked from …


FBI Official Says Foreign Hackers Targeting COVID-19 Research

A senior cybersecurity official with the FBI said on Thursday that foreign government hackers have broken into companies conducting research into treatments for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus.FBI Deputy Assistant Director Tonya Ugoretz told participants in an …