Month: April 2023

Enlarge / NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman (bottom), Victor Glover (top), and Christina Hammock Koch (left), and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen (right) were announced Monday as the crew of Artemis II. (credit: NASA)

NASA on Monday staged the kind of celebratory event it has wanted to hold for five decades—the naming a new crew to fly to the Moon.

The Artemis II mission will fly four astronauts around the Moon during an approximately week-long flight. This will be the first time that humans have left low-Earth orbit since December 1972, at the conclusion of the Apollo 17 mission.

"It's been more than a half-century since astronauts journeyed to the Moon," NASA administrator Bill Nelson said Monday. "That's about to change."

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The maker of eye drops linked to a deadly outbreak of extensively drug-resistant infections in the US had a slew of manufacturing violations—from brown slime on filling equipment to a lack of basic measures and systems to ensure sterility—according to an inspection report released by the Food and Drug Administration (PDF).

In February, the regulator warned consumers to immediately stop using eye drops and eye ointment made by Global Pharma, whose products were sold in the US under brand names EzriCare and Delsam Pharma and were available through Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and other retailers. Global Pharma later issued voluntary recalls of the products.

Health investigators had linked the drops to cases of an extensively drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain that had never been seen before in the US. The strain is identified as VIM-GES-CRPA, which stands for a carbapenem-resistant P. aeruginosa (CRPA) with Verona integron-mediated metallo-β-lactamase (VIM) and Guiana extended-spectrum-β-lactamase (GES). Although affected people reported using multiple brands of eye drops, EzriCare was the most common. Additionally, testing by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and independent researchers have identified the outbreak strain in opened bottles of EzriCare artificial tears.

Enlarge / Protester holding a sign outside the News Corp building in New York City on March 7, 2023. (credit: Getty Images | Erik McGregor )

Dominion Voting Systems won a significant ruling against Fox News Network on Friday, with a judge finding that Fox News aired false statements about Dominion related to the 2020 presidential election and must face a jury trial in the defamation lawsuit.

"While the Court must view the record in the light most favorable to Fox, the record does not show a genuine issue of material fact as to falsity," wrote Judge Eric Davis in a Delaware Superior Court ruling on summary judgment. Dominion provided "extensive proof" to meet its burden of showing that Fox aired false statements and Fox wasn't able to refute those accusations, he added.

Davis used a mix of italics, capital letters, and bolded text to emphasize his conclusion that Fox published false statements: