New York City Pays Developer Indicted for Bribery Over $500,000 Monthly

Minnesota State Senator Justin Eichorn, a Republican, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly soliciting a minor for prostitution. According to the Bloomington police department, Eichorn believed he was communicating with a 17-year-old girl online, but was instead corresponding with police detectives. The 40-year-old senator, who is married with four children, now faces felony charges. Eichorn recently garnered attention for proposing a bill to classify "Trump derangement syndrome" as a mental illness, a term used by some Trump supporters to describe perceived liberal obsession with former President Donald Trump. The bill, which defines the syndrome as an acute paranoia triggered by Trump’s presidency, has faced widespread criticism from opponents, including State Senate Majority Leader Erin Murphy, who called it “possibly the worst bill in Minnesota history.” In light of the charges against Eichorn, the Minnesota Senate GOP and the Republican Party of Minnesota have called for his resignation, citing the seriousness of the allegations. Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges emphasized the consequences for those who exploit minors, stating, "you can expect that we are going to lock you up."

NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita Williams, along with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, are set to splash down off the Florida coast after a historic nine-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). They are expected to return just before 6 PM ET on March 18, 2025, following a deorbit burn that confirmed their trajectory for re-entry, according to NASA's live coverage. Wilmore and Williams were originally scheduled for a standard eight-day mission but remained on the ISS due to issues with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft during its first crewed flight. NASA opted to bring the astronauts back via SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule instead, citing "too much uncertainty" regarding the Starliner’s propulsion systems, which had experienced failures during the mission. Their prolonged stay became a topic of political discourse, with Elon Musk controversially asserting they had been “abandoned” in space by the Biden administration, a claim both astronauts later clarified as unfounded. The return marks the conclusion of an extended, successful mission still essential for space exploration advancements.

Researchers utilizing the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) have produced the most detailed map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to date, unveiling insights into the Universe's infancy approximately 380,000 years after the Big Bang. This breakthrough, detailed in three preprint papers on arXiv, highlights significant advancements in understanding the mass and scale of the Universe, as well as the ongoing debate over the Hubble constant, which measures the Universe's expansion rate. Dr. Suzanne Staggs from Princeton University remarked, "We are seeing the first steps towards making the earliest stars and galaxies," emphasizing the importance of high-resolution light polarization data gathered by ACT. The findings indicate that the observable Universe extends nearly 50 billion light-years from Earth and contains an estimated mass equivalent to around 1.9 trillion solar masses, with a substantial portion being composed of dark matter and dark energy. Despite the new findings, tensions remain regarding the Hubble constant, as measurements of distant versus local expansion rates continue to diverge. "This is a problem that needs to be resolved," Staggs noted.