Adam Schrader

4 days ago | upi.com | Adam Schrader

April 20 (UPI) -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., in an interview Sunday defended his recent trip to El Salvador to meet with a man from his state who was erroneously deported by the Trump administration. Van Hollen, speaking in an interview with ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl, said the visit to meet with imprisoned Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a matter of defending the U.S. Constitution. "I am not defending the man. I'm defending the rights of this man to due process," Van Hollen said.

4 days ago | upi.com | Adam Schrader

April 20 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday dismissed as a "hoax" a draft Trump executive order that circulated over the weekend and would gut the U.S. State Department. "This is fake news. The @nytimes falls victim to another hoax," Rubio said on social media with a link to an article from The New York Times, which first reported news of the draft order. The document had also been viewed by Bloomberg and Politico.

4 days ago | upi.com | Adam Schrader

April 20 (UPI) -- Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday as he returned to Earth from a seven-month stay at the International Space Station, during which he completed Expeditions 71 and 72. Pettit is the oldest currently serving astronaut in the U.S. and has flown to space four times, logging some 590 days in orbit throughout his career. He is the second-oldest American astronaut to visit space after John Glenn's famed 1998 mission at the age of 77.

4 days ago | upi.com | Adam Schrader

April 20 (UPI) -- Pope Francis, who is still recovering from treatment for bilateral pneumonia, greeted crowds gathered in a tulip-filled St Peter's Square for Easter Sunday before his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" speech, which called for global disarmament and the end to conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine and South Sudan. "Brothers and sisters, happy Easter," Francis briefly said to the crowd, according to the Catholic News Agency.

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Adam Schrader

The commercial art technology firm Ronati has unveiled a new online software platform, Ronati Studio, aimed at antiques dealers and gallerists handling pre-owned art and artefacts. The software claims to be the first all-in-one tool for managing inventory from acquisition to resale, covering everything from baseball cards to high-end furniture and historic work. Ronati Studio and its mobile app allow dealers to photograph and document items with various data.