The most distant spacecraft from Earth has resumed sending data after a five-month gap, NASA said Monday. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977, about two weeks after the launch of its twin, Voyager 2. The spacecraft has spent over 45 years studying the outer solar system and has made flybys of Jupiter and Saturn and traveled more than …
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In the first months of her online relationship with a man calling himself Frank Borg, Laura Kowal was showered with love notes and spent hours on giddy phone calls. By year two, those exchanges were methodical and transactional, with Frank instructing Kowal how to set up fake companies and bank accounts to move money. “I believe that she got so …
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For former teacher Billy Keenan, life had always been about action. He had served in the Army. He mastered musical instruments including the flute, guitar, bass guitar and piano. As a competitive triathlete and surfer, he completed numerous 5K, 10K and half-marathon runs. “I was at the peak of my powers,” he said. But on Sept. 14, 2013, his life …
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Summer Lee has defeated Bhavini Patel in the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, the Associated Press projects. With 98% of ballotscounted Wednesday morning, Lee had just over 60% of the votes. It was one of the most contentious races on Tuesday’s ballot, featuring the incumbent Lee against Patel, an Edgewood councilwoman. The district includes Pittsburgh, …
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Donald Trump is about to see his fortune grow by $1.2 billion. The former U.S. president is set to receive a so-called earnout bonus of 36 million shares in his newly public company, Trump Media & Technology Group, as part of an incentive that was created for the company’s public market debut in March, according to a regulatory filing. For …
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President Biden on Monday weighed in on the pro-Palestine demonstrations taking place at elite university campuses. “I condemn the antisemitic protests,” Mr. Biden told reporters after an Earth Day Event in Northern Virginia Monday. “That’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.” A reporter …
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When Laura Kowal decided to date again after losing her husband of 24 years, the 57-year-old retired hospital executive from Galena, Illinois, joined an online dating site because that felt safer. The relationship she forged with a self-described Swedish investment adviser named Frank Borg began with florid emails and giddy phone calls in October 2018. It was romantic and exciting …
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Maureen Stanko always felt her son, Nick, had so much to give. Nick is 20 and is on the autism spectrum and despite her knowing he had so much to give, what he would do after graduation kept his mom up at night. “I was lying in bed one night at 3 a.m. I was thinking about, ‘Oh man, what’s …
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The scammer who drained Laura Kowal of her $1.5 million nest egg and sent the widowed healthcare executive on a path that ended with her death in the Mississippi River, hundreds of miles from her western Illinois home, called himself “Frank Borg.” Frank drew Laura into a relationship after she connected to his profile on the popular dating website Match.com. …
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As Easter arrives, Bay Area parents are being urged to avoid buying real bunnies for their kids. It’s the time of year when rabbits show up in shelters, after families realize they are unable to care for them. Just days before Easter, Ben Vandivier, a father of two, found himself in a hare-raising predicament. “You tell your kids that you’re …
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