Sally Ride, First US Female Astronaut, Dead at 61 [VIDEO]
Sally Ride died today after a 17 month battle with pancreatic cancer, she was 61-years-old. Ride was the first U.S. female astronaut in space on the shuttle Challenger in 1983.
Sally Ride died today after a 17 month battle with pancreatic cancer, she was 61-years-old. Ride was the first U.S. female astronaut in space on the shuttle Challenger in 1983.
We had planning on starting fresh this week; moving on from the Colorado movie theater tragedy and returning to coverage of movies and television. But one more thing before we proceed. Let’s take a moment to meet the victims and remember all who died far too soon.
James Holmes, the suspect in the Aurora, Colo. shooting during the midnight screening of ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ which left 12 dead and 58 other injured, appeared in court Monday.
So, what happened?
After last weeks shooting at a Colorado movie theater, there is a lot of chatter on both sides of the gun control issue, but we want to know where YOU stand.
Sanctions were levied against the Penn State football team on Monday by the NCAA for its role in the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal and while the school avoided the ‘death penalty,’ it was still hit hard.
It’s pretty common knowledge that pregnant women should not consume alcohol, due to the potential negative effects it could have on the fetus and its development.
However, that’s not stopping one in 13 pregnant women from drinking alcoholic beverages while with child.
President Barack Obama was scheduled to speak this morning at a campaign stop in Fort Myers, Florida. Instead of speaking about his upcoming re-election campaign, he instead delivered a speech on the ‘Dark Knight Rises’ shooting in Aurora, Colorado.
At least 12 people were killed and 50 injured when someone went into an Aurora, Colorado movie theater during a midnight screening of 'The Dark Knight Rises' Friday morning, fired a smoke grenade and began shooting.
When President Obama’s healthcare law was upheld by the Supreme Court, some infuriated people had a rather amusing response: they vowed to move to Canada, a country where socialized medicine is the law of the land.
But it’s perhaps thanks to that and other “socialist” policies that Canadians are now richer than Americans.
A bus driver became a hero on Monday when he caught a seven-year-old autistic girl in his arms after she fell three stories from a building in New York City. The remarkable rescue was caught on tape.
This might not come as any surprise to a lot of you, but most teenagers do not have any idea what they are doing when it comes to the world of finances.