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The astronauts selected for the first human mission to Mars will need to have more than "the right stuff." People on this yearslong mission will need to possess an eagerness for doing the right thing, too.

Biden has called Blinken, who worked with him on foreign policy issues for nearly two decades, a "superstar" and has said he could do "any job."

Good morning. Donald Trump has finally agreed to begin the transition to a Joe Biden presidency, three weeks after the election. It followed a declaration from the General Services Administration (GSA) yesterday that Biden was the apparent winner of the US election, enabling the transition of power to officially begin. But, for the president at least, it’s not over yet: while Trump tweeted that he had instructed his team to cooperate with the...

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn discussed the vaccine approval process and how the FDA will evaluate vaccine safety.

The ruling party in his native Zimbabwe has declared him an enemy of the state. Nevertheless, on Friday he was freed on bail from a maximum security jail, the second time he has been locked up in less than four months. Award-winning investigative journalist Hopewell Chin'ono remains committed to his work. "I am not going to stop exposing corruption," he told AFP a day after his release from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison. "That's the nature...