Food insecurity across the Gaza Strip is severely affecting all areas of the blockaded enclave.
— from a high-profile source, government adviser Elon Musk.On Wednesday, at a swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office, Trump faced questions about Musk’s comments, which suggested the bill would balloon the national debt.
The Republican leader responded with a degree of ambivalence, though he staunchly defended the bill’s tax cuts.“We will be negotiating that bill, and I’m not happy about certain aspects of it, but I’m thrilled by other aspects of it,” Trump said. “That’s the way they go.”The budget bill clocks in at over a thousand pages, and it contains a range of domestic policy priorities for the Trump administration.
That includes legislation cementing some of theTrump championed during his first term as president, in 2017. It would also increase the funds available for Trump’s “mass deportation” effort and heightened security along the US-Mexico border.
Some $46.5bn, for instance, would be earmarked to renew construction of the southern border wall and other barriers, another hallmark of Trump’s first term in office.
But to pay for those tax cuts and policy priorities, the bill proposes measures that remain controversial on both sides of the political spectrum.K2-18b lies in a constellation called Leo, and is so far away from Earth that a spaceship would need to travel for 124 years at the speed of light to get there. In reality, it would take much, much longer since the laws of physics don’t allow anything other than light to travel that fast.
The planet is 8.6 times heavier than Earth, and 2.6 times as large. Critically, it sits in what is known as the “Goldilocks Zone” of its sun: that’s the region around a star where a planet’s temperature could, in theory, support water in its liquid form on the surface.In 2023, Cambridge astronomers found methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of the planet.
That was the first time that carbon-based molecules had been discovered in the atmosphere of any planet in the habitable zone of its sun – the distance from a sun where it’s neither too hot, nor too cold, and so possible for life to survive. The scientists said that a surface covered first by an ocean, and then a hydrogen-rich atmosphere, would explain the presence of carbon-based molecules. Simply put, it was possible that the planet could have water.What have the scientists found now?