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3:17 Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reportedly gave President Joe Biden an ultimatum: bow out of the presidential race “the easy way or the hard way.” Politico reported Monday, a day after Biden’s announcement that he would step aside as the presumptive 2024 Democrat presidential nominee, that the former Speaker and still top Democrat powerbroker put her foot down after weeks of Biden publicly insisting he would plow forward with his campaign despite major fallout from his disastrous debate performance on June 27. “Nancy made clear that they could do this the easy way or the hard way,” one...

HOUSTON - Ron Dittemore simply cannot help himself. The shuttle program manager is clearly beside himself with grief, and yet he is also so keenly absorbed by discovering its genesis that from time to time, wonder will creep into his voice and raise it a notch. "It's not the absolute value of attitude change that is interesting," he said at one point yesterday, describing the pitch of the space shuttle Columbia's doomed flight last weekend. "What's becoming interesting to us now is the rate of change." At another moment, he said, of temperature increases captured at the mid-section of the...