Deep Impact? Asteroid To Pass Dangerously Close To Earth In Next Few weeks

A giant asteroid will fly precariously close to Earth mid-December. The object named 3200 Phaethon will come about 6.4 million miles from Earth, and within about 2 million miles of Earth’s orbit. In fact, the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) Minor Planet Center has categorized 3200 Phaethon as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA).

Lawyers: Michael Flynn Has Something on Trump

Lawyers for former national security adviser Michael Flynn have stopped talking to President Donald Trump’s legal team about special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, according to reports Thursday. That could mean Flynn is working out a deal that could implicate a senior Trump official, say legal experts.

Tom Steyer Brings Huge “Impeach Trump” Billboard to Times Square

If they look up into the bright lights, the more than 350,000 people who traverse New York City’s Times Square every day will be greeted with a new message among the throngs of advertisements: Impeach President Donald Trump. Environmentalist and Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer announced Monday that his growing $20 million campaign to remove Trump from office is moving to the heart of the country’s most populous city at its busiest time of year.

Trump Supporter and “Family Values” Republican Guilty of Sex Trafficking

Ralph Shortey, former Oklahoma state senator and a county campaign coordinator for President Donald Trump’s campaign last year, will plead guilty to a child sex trafficking offense for soliciting sex from a 17-year-old boy in March.

Pacific Threat: 80 Percent of Fish Set to Be Wiped Out

Pacific Island nations are expected to lose 50 to 80 percent of fish species by the end of the century.

False Charges Of Fake News Damaging A Free Press

The front-runner candidate for the Alabama Senate seat vacated when Jeff Sessions became Justice Secretary, Republican Roy Moore, called The Washington Post “fake news” after the newspaper published a thorough investigation reporting on sexual encounters between Moore and multiple teenage girls, one as young as 14.

Did Donald Trump Launder Millions of Dollars of Drug Money Through Panama?

Donald Trump made tens of millions of dollars in profits by allowing Colombian drug cartels and other groups to launder money through a Trump-affiliated hotel in Panama, according to a new investigation by the organization Global Witness.

Clueless Trump Tweets About the Wrong Mass Shooting

President Donald Trump tweeted about the wrong mass shooting late Tuesday after a gunman launched a gun rampage in California and killed at least four people before trying to enter an elementary school.