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>> helen, i'm almost afraid to come to you on this one because i -- >> you should be because here's what i have to say. jeff bezos we thought his spaceship looked like a giant wiener, and then, huh? then he opened his mouth. i just think, you know -- i just think, you know, a trash bag in space is still a trash bag. now it's a floating trash bag. jeff, pay your workers a fair wage, please. >> is that -- but helen, let me just ask. i hear you on all the points you're making. does that eclipse all the potential value of this flight for you? >> yes. right now currently there are like large swaths...

We are dealing with a massive climate problem, and we're going to -- and we've just contributed more carbon dioxide into the air so this guy can have 10 minutes, you know, to look at the -- like to experience zero gravity? come on, yes there's absolutely no help to billionaires not even doing scientific missions, just billionaires la-di-daing in space. pay your workers and let's fix the climate problem. >> there was a nasa scientific experimental sample on the virgin galactic flight that went out. so there was some non-corporate related scientific research that went on with at least one of the...

No help to billionaires not even doing scientific missions, just billionaires la-di-da'ing in space. no,. pay your workers a living wage and let's fix the climate problem. come on. >> we should note there was a nasa scientific experimental sample on the virgin galactic flight that went out. so there was some non-corporate related scientific research that went on with at least one of these flights. but, ben, the other piece of this for me is that the bell is rung, right? we already know there are other nations including china who are not shy about their aspirations in space. and i don't think t...

On May 21, Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas entered a ceasefire. The agreement ended 11 days of conflict—the most frenetic fighting between the two sides since 2014—during which the death toll in Gaza has been at least 253 and in Israel has been at least 13. Like Israel and the rest of the Middle East, Gaza and the West Bank are experiencing increasingly long and more frequent periods of extreme heat.

Environmental activists offer little to alleviate human suffering.