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NASA’s Curiosity rover celebrates 5,000 days on Mars with a new “postcard.”

The shot marks 14 years since Curiosity landed on the Martian surface in 2012. NASA created it by merging two black-and-white panoramas from Curiosity’s navigation cameras then added color “for an artistic interpretation of the scene, with blue representing the morning panorama and yellow representing the afternoon one.” [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/nasa-mars-curiosity-5000-days-on-mars-panorama.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]

Fed hikes interest rates by quarter-point

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates Wednesday for the first time in several years in the face of stubborn inflation. The central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), under Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, voted unanimously to increase the federal funds rate to a range of 3.75 percent to 4 percent. It marks the first time the…

Kansas’s former GOP governor backs Democrat over Marshall for Senate

Former Kansas Gov. Bill Graves (R) on Tuesday endorsed Adam Hamilton, a Democrat challenging Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall (R). Saying the country is “facing increasing partisan gridlock and division,” Graves said it is “time Kansas does something different” and elect Hamilton, a Methodist minister. “For the last six years, Senator Roger Marshall has turned his…

House GOPer demands NHL investigate Ovechkin over pro-Putin ad

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) is demanding the NHL investigate Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin over an advertisement he participated in promoting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s party ahead of the country’s elections this weekend. In a letter to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman on Wednesday, Wilson called it “incredibly alarming” that Ovechkin appeared in the ad “supporting…