WASHINGTON, May 4 -- The American Astronomical Society issued the following news release: President Joe Biden will present Dr. Jane Rigby with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Friday, 3 May, in a ceremony at the White House in Washington. Rigby, an American Astronomical Society (AAS) member and elected At-Large Trustee, is an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the senior project scientist for NASA's JWST mission -- the powerful space telescope   more

NEW YORK, May 4 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release on May 3, 2024: Friday marks the conclusion of a years-long fight to stop construction of the Williams Northeast Enhancement Project (NESE), a new fracked gas pipeline that would have been built in New York Harbor along the coast of Staten Island, Coney Island, and the Rockaway Peninsula, to supply gas to National Grid. On April 10th, the pipeline company announced that they would no longer seek federal permits for th  more