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Astronaut Jim Lovell, best known as the commander of the near-tragic Apollo 13 mission to the moon, died Thursday in Illinois. He was 97. Lovell was a veteran of four spaceflights: Gemini VII, Gemini XII, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13. In a statement released Friday, the Lovell family highlighted his “amazing life and career accomplishments” and his “legendary leadership in …

A driver going 283 mph trying to set a land speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died Sunday after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon, organizers said. Driver Chris Raschke lost control about two and a half miles into a run and was treated by medical professionals at the …

A federal judge has thrown out President Donald Trump’s $50 million lawsuit against veteran Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward. Woodward, world-renowned for breaking the Watergate scandal with his colleague Carl Bernstein, published interviews with Trump in 2022 in an audiobook called The Trump Tapes. The project drew on nearly 20 interviews between Woodward and the president from 2016 to 2020, …

Famed soap opera star Eileen Fulton has died. The longtime “As The World Turns” actress was 91. According to an obituary from Groce Funeral Home, Fulton debuted as Lisa Miller on the CBS program in 1960. Aside from brief interruptions, Fulton played that role until the show was canceled in 2010, making her one of the longest-running soap opera actors …

Bay Area home of famed Stanford physicist listed after 70 years  SFGATE Source link