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The laser navigator collided with the moon earlier this month, dooming a Japanese company’s lunar landing craft. ISPACE officials announced the news from Tokyo on Tuesday. Crush Landing was iSpace’s second in two years. This time, the company’s lander, named Resilience, was heading north north of the moon in Mare Frigoris or Sea of Clow. NASA’s Moon Reconnaissance Orbiter relayed photos of the crash site where Resilience and its mini-rover became wreckage last week. Company officials condemned the accident with Lander’s laser rangefinder, saying it was slow to kick in and properly measure the spacecraft’s distance to the moon. Resilience…
With certain brands of Florida crime capers, greedy creeping tends to disappear in the Everglades. There, justice is left to the whims of the Hungry Swamp Beast.Carl Heierzen’s “skinny dip” comes to mind. In it, Barry wrote: “The Everglades, two million acres of wild wetlands, have been forever sanctuaries and hideaways for all sorts of exemptions from hermits, moonshiners, drug runners, eccentrics, paramilitary wacko, madmen, cults, cults, criminals, society, or law or both.It’s an explosion of books that include Dora the Explorer costumes, Smaldi politicians and secret treasures. Most titles in this tropical environment are riots and are ingrained in…
After a series of delays from the weather to rocket engines and leaks of the International Space Station, NASA cleared the way SpaceX fires an Axiom Space Ax-4 crew on Space Coast. The Falcon 9 rocket topped with a new Crew Dragon capsule is about to lift it with four members of the private mission from Kennedy Space Center’s Launchpad 39-A at 2:31am Wednesday. The first phase booster is making its second flight, aiming for a recovery landing in landing zone 1 at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The AX-4 crew is led by Commander Peggy Whitson, a former…
By Chris Rugaber of AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve continues to wait and see how the economy evolves before deciding whether to cut key interest rates, Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday that it is directly at odds with President Donald Trump’s demand for immediate cuts. “For the time being, we are well positioned to wait to learn more about possible economic courses before considering adjusting our policy attitude,” Powell said in a prepared statement to be offered Tuesday before the House Financial Services Committee. Powell faces two days of tough grilling at Capitol Hill. Powell is…
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida employees will get an extra day on the July 4th holiday, Gov. Ron Desantis announced Monday. The governor said the state office will be closed on Thursday, July 3rd, saying “as Florida celebrates America’s 249th Independence Day weekend and as Florida celebrates America’s 250th anniversary.” The state office will also close on July 4th. List: Where to watch the July 4th fireworks in Tampa Bay “In anticipation of the upcoming semi-calcentennial celebrations in America in 2026, I have long been awarding state employees to celebrate this weekend,” DeSantis said. “We hope that our state employees…
TAMPA – Ronnie Tremel Walker killed 14-year-old Nilexia Alexander on dark dead-end Tampa Street three years ago, the ju judges decided Tuesday.A panel of five men and seven women deliberated about two hours before Walker, 48, was found guilty of first-degree murder, and refused to defence arguments that his accomplice was the one who shot the girl.Walker was also found guilty of tampeThe ju umpire refused to defence arguing that Walker’s friend, Robert Creed, who was in the car on the night of the shooting, may have shot the girl. Creed was the only witness to acknowledging it was a…
Collier County, Fla. (WFLA) – Construction of the new immigration detention facility, Alligator Alcatraz, began after Florida leaders approved the plan Monday. NBC affiliate WBBH reported that the facility is located at Dade Carrier Training and Transition Airport, an abandoned runway spanning the Miami-Dade and Collier County lines. State officials told media that the site would house roughly 5,000 immigrants who illegally live in the United States in July 2025. (WBBH) Florida Attorney General James Usmier said the location would allow for efficient disposal and deportation, while the natural environment (with crocodile, Pison and Panthers) would serve as a deterrent…
Stan Choe, David Mchugh, Elaine Kurtenbach, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) – Oil prices are falling even further, and US stocks hope that Israeli Iran’s war will not want to undermine the crude trends of the world, even if a temporary ceasefire appears to be on fire in the morning. The S&P 500 followed up even greater profits in European and Asian stocks, up 0.9% in morning trading. This comes after President Donald Trump said late Monday that Israel and Iran agreed to a “complete and complete ceasefire.” The main measure of Wall Street health returned within 1.1% of…
HOLY HIL, Fla. (WFLA) – A sixth grade teacher has been arrested for having child sexual abuse materials made using artificial intelligence, the Holly Hill Police Department has announced. David McKeown, 47, was arrested on June 20th for possessing child pornography and sexual activity, including animals. ICAC detectives in the Criminal Investigation Division of the Holly Hill Police Station received tips from National Missing and Exploited Children on June 2, 2025 on reports of people sharing files depicting child sexual abuse. Credit: fdle The search warrant was executed at Mackie Oun’s home and at United’s brothers at the Academy of…
Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman said Monday that central banks should consider cutting key interest rates soon at their next meeting in July, and should highlight a deep division among Fed officials as they withstand sharp criticism from the White House. Bowman said President Donald Trump’s tariffs have not caused an inflationary jump so far that many economists fear, and future prices will likely be a one-off rise. “The impact of tariffs on inflation could be longer, delayed and less effective than initially expected,” Bowman said in a speech on Monday in Prague.…