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☆ NASA is scrapping a moon rover that it spent $450 million to build
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewNASA is scrapping a moon rover it spent $450 million to construct, and axing the machine's mission to find water on the moon. The agency discontinued the development of VIPER — or Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover — because it proved exceedingly expensive. According to the Times, the agency would save at least $84 million by not conducting the testing and not having to operate the rover on the moon. Representatives for NASA did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ A migrant had just crossed the border when he found a scared, 9-year-old boy who needed help. The encounter changed them both
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | Thomas Lake | After Days Of Hiding Authorities | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +23 min

Chris Buchleitner and his mother, Dawn Tomko, went on many camping trips together, like the one shown here. With help on the way, Manuel could have headed on for Tucson or Phoenix. The local fire chief gave him a small stuffed horse, telling Manuel he’d been a hero in the wilderness, like the Lone Ranger. An orphaned boy moves to PennsylvaniaWhen Chris Buchleitner was still a baby, his parents made a plan for the worst-case scenario. Cordova, who now has seven children and four grandchildren, says he thought of his own children when he came across Chris Buchleitner in the Arizona wilderness.

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☆ A Mother Had Three Minutes to Address Her Son’s Killer
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Jack Healy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The night before Adriana Vance addressed her son’s killer in a Colorado courtroom, she was still searching for the right words. She had spent days struggling to write a statement about her son, Raymond Green Vance, 22, one of the five people killed last November in a shooting rampage at Club Q in Colorado Springs. Image Raymond Green Vance, 22, had just gotten a new job and was saving for his own apartment when he was killed in a mass shooting. Courtesy of the family of Raymond Green VanceBecause most mass shooters do not live to see a trial, there is often no such moment after their attacks. Should those minutes be spent focusing on lost loved ones, or condemning the killer, or even offering forgiveness, as families did after a racist massacre inside a Charleston church?

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☆ Home flipper profits are slumping at their fastest pace since the 2009 recession and the prognosis isn't any better for 2023
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Last quarter saw the fastest drop in home flipping profits since the Great Recession. down for the Warm and sunny places like Honolulu saw the lowest returns and cities like Buffalo saw the highest. "The high end market has basically vaporized, there's nothing there, " Sharga said, repeating the words of a flipper he knows. Those flippers have healthy profit margins even if the overall dollar amounts aren't as high as with luxury homes, he said. Meanwhile, flippers in cities with harsh winters like Pittsburgh — where the typical flipper made a 116.9% profit — and Buffalo, New York, had the largest returns.

PITTSBURGH — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are at the moment their parties’ leading candidates for 2024. But more competitive midterm contests appear poised to inject a host of new prospects into the 2024 conversation for both parties. That governors would already find themselves in the 2024 spotlight comes as little surprise to political observers. “Governors get s--- done, right?” Shapiro said in a recent interview after batting away questions about his own future ambitions. Jared Leopold, a Democratic strategist who formerly worked at the Democratic Governors Association, said Biden is and will remain Democrats’ top choice in 2024.

“We’ve got to unite,” Oz said at a rally Friday in Wexford, a suburb north of Pittsburgh. Democrats see his message as blatant hypocrisy considering he is backed by former President Donald Trump and has campaigned with him. “Uhhhh will he refuse to campaign with Mastriano + Trump this weekend then?? He has mostly kept Mastriano at arm’s length while rarely mentioning Trump, instead focusing on crime, inflation and undocumented immigration. “As much as I loved Trump as president, he’s pushed the other party so far away.”

☆ 6 people shot outside Pittsburgh church during funeral, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

PITTSBURGH — Six people were shot Friday afternoon outside of a church where a funeral service was being held, officials said. Around 12:04 p.m. police were alerted to about five shots fired outside of Destiny of Faith Church on Brighton Road on the city's North Side. Immediately after, police were alerted to 15 additional gunshots, Pittsburgh Police Commander Richard Ford said at a news conference. A spokesperson with Destiny of Faith Church confirmed the shooting had happened outside the building while a funeral was being held there. The scene outside a church where officers said "multiple shots" were fired in Pittsburgh on Friday.

Mr. Brinsky said he and Mr. Bowers, 46, grew up together but that he never met Mr. Bowers’s parents and got the impression that Mr. Bowers had a difficult home life. They drifted apart by the time they got to Baldwin High School, where Mr. Brinsky said Mr. Bowers wore a camouflage jacket and drifted alone through the halls. Mr. Bowers is not listed in any activities or sports in his 1989 junior-class yearbook, and he does not appear in the next year’s book as a senior at all. “He was pretty much a ghost,” Mr. Brinsky said. Mr. Bowers said he worked as a truck driver and needed the apartment primarily to store his stuff, Ms. Owens said.

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