The Artemis II crew proposed naming a moon crater after Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife Carroll, who lost her life to cancer 😭

Senior USAid officials put on leave after denying access to Musk’s Doge team After standoff, Doge members gained control over access system, letting them to lock out workers and read emails

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Clothes, toiletries – and a free stylist: the LA teen creating a space for peers amid the fires Avery Colvert created Altadena Girls, an organization now with celebrities sending products, eateries reaching out to cater and a surplus of volunteers

Altadena Girls – a new organization started by 14-year-old Avery Colvert – has struck a chord with its focus on teen girls’ recovery. “I was thinking about, if I lost everything in my own bedroom, how would I feel?” Colvert said.
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Jimmy Carter, longest-lived US president, dies aged 100 Former president faced series of economic and foreign policy crises, including Iran hostage affair and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

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Rickey Henderson, baseball’s greatest leadoff hitter and ‘Man of Steal’, dies aged 65 Rickey Henderson, baseball’s greatest leadoff hitter and the all-time stolen base king, died Friday in Oakland at the age of 65 after battling pneumonia

“Rickey was the greatest leadoff hitter of all time. There’s no debate,” said Billy Beane, former A’s general manager. “He transformed the game and made every team he played for better.”

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Survivors of prison sexual abuse scandal ask Biden for clemency: ‘Give us a chance’ Incarcerated women seek relief after exposing harassment, retaliation and assault by staff

NEW: We interviewed women behind bars who exposed the widespread sexual abuse of US prison officers, but who have struggled to get relief. They are pleading with Biden for clemency.

“After everything I’ve been through, I deserve to be protected. Give me a chance … Let me see my granddaughters”

Cory Doctorow’s prescient novella about health insurance and murder: ‘They’re going to be afraid’ The parallels between the science fiction writer’s five-year-old story and present-day events are startling

"Slowly, over the course of the story, the men of the forum become radicalized by their grief and begin plotting – and executing – murders of health insurance executives and politicians who vote against universal healthcare." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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