Senate Republican calls for scrapping filibuster to fund DHS after correspondents’ dinner shooting

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) says Republicans should “nuke” the Senate’s filibuster rule if Democrats continue to block Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding after the third assassination attempt against President Trump, citing “a moment of national danger.” Johnson acknowledged in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that Republicans would want……

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Why cosmology is more than a theory

Edwin Hubble found that distant galaxies travel away from Earth faster than nearer ones.Credit: New York Public Library/SPL Universe: A Guide to Everything Helge Kragh Reaktion (2026) What is the Universe? Should we think of it as a thing or a set of ideas? Acclaimed historian of science Helge Kragh grapples with such deep questions…

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