Nevada Republicans are holding their presidential caucuses tonight, and we'll be liveblogging the results atDaily Kos Elections. The caucuess will begin anywhere from 8 PM and 10 PM ET depending on the county and precinct, and we'll begin our liveblog at 8 o'clock. We'll also be live-tweeting the results. Come join us to see whether Donald Trump can keep his streak rolling!
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) revealed Monday that she has breast cancer but expects to recover fully.
“I very recently learned that I have breast cancer. It was detected through a regular mammogram. It’s a little scary, but my prognosis is good and I expect a full recovery,” McCaskill wrote in a blog post Monday. “I will be in St. Louis for the next 3 weeks receiving treatment."
- How much does the TV news’ industry love Donald Trump? A lot.
- We’re going to need a bigger boat:
The worsening of tidal flooding in American coastal communities is largely a consequence of greenhouse gases from human activity, and the problem will grow far worse in coming decades, scientists reported Monday.
Those emissions, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, are causing the ocean to rise at the fastest rate since at least the founding of ancient Rome, the scientists said.
- Cue the “Twilight Zone” music:
It was 1969, two months before Apollo 11's historic first manned landing on the moon, when Apollo 10 entered lunar orbit, which included traversing the far side of the moon when all spacecraft are out of radio contact with Earth for about an hour and nobody on Earth can see or hear them. [...]
The conversation between the three astronauts indicated they heard sounds like they had never heard before:
"It sounds like, you know, outer space-type music."
"You hear that? That whistling sound? Whooooooooo!"
"Well, that sure is weird music!"
The unexplained "music" transmission lasted almost an hour, and just before the astronauts regained radio contact with Earth, they discussed whether or not to tell Mission Control what they had experienced:
"It's unbelievable! You know?"
"Shall we tell them about it?"
"I don't know. We ought to think about it."
Kevin Spacey's Frank Underwood is only the fictional president in Netflix's House of Cards, but it increasingly feels like the pretend politician is bleeding through into the real world. Spacey appeared in character during the Golden Globes in January, and now the Machiavellian monster has his portrait hung alongside actual presidents', in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.