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Boeing will return its Starliner capsule from the International Space Station without the NASA astronauts that it delivered to orbit in early June, the agency announced on Saturday.With Starliner coming back to Earth empty, NASA will now have astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return via SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, which is expected to launch its ninth regular mission to the ISS for the agency on Sept. 24.Ultimately, Wilmore and Williams will stay at the ISS for about six more months before flying home in February on SpaceX’s Crew-9 vehicle. The test flight was originally intended to last about nine days.The…

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By Elana Rabinowitz, Next Avenue “We call it pretirement,” a woman said while gushing about her new life in the affluent resort town of Saratoga Springs, New York. The smile on her face was impossible to hide. “Pretirement?” I asked, as if she made a verbal typo. She explained that it’s a phrase she and her spouse created to describe their new softer life as transplants to bucolic Upstate New York from the hustle and bustle of Manhattan. “Sometimes we check our calendars and if we can we kayak during lunch,” she continued. How dreamy this seemed compared to my…

For Vice President Kamala Harris, her Thursday night speech accepting the Democratic nomination marked one of the most high-profile moments of a rapid rise to become the first Black and Asian American woman to lead a major party’s presidential ticket. One image, however, has captured what the moment could mean for young girls. Shot by New York Times staff photographer Todd Heisler, the photo features Amara Ajagu, one of the vice president’s young grandnieces, staring on as Harris delivered her address to the convention. More so than most little girls, Ajagu can say that Harris could be the first president who looks…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Parts of the Red Sea are facing a significant pollution risk after Yemen’s Houthis blew up a crippled tanker and its crude oil cargo in the middle of the strategic waterway.The Iran-backed group on Friday posted videos showing their forces’ deliberate blowing up of the Greek-owned oil tanker Sounion, whose crew had been forced to abandon ship after a series of attacks by the Houthis on Wednesday.The EU’s Operation Aspides naval force had warned on Thursday that the drifting, abandoned vessel and…

Investment Thesis Cybersecurity company SentinelOne, Inc. (NYSE:S) is slated to announce their Q2 FY25 earnings next week on Tuesday, August 27th, after markets close. The company’s results will come a day before its larger peer, CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (CRWD), reports the most anticipated earnings report of this earnings season on August 28th, where industry watchers and markets will closely follow updates & commentary from CrowdStrike’s management following their global outage last month. SentinelOne’s Q2 earnings report will be critical for the company to demonstrate if the Mountain View, CA-headquartered company has grabbed the opportunity from CrowdStrike’s outage and won some…

As opening statements in the murder trial of Robert Telles began last week, the Las Vegas Review-Journal was confronted with a nightmarish question: How does a newspaper cover the trial of a suspect accused of murdering one of its own reporters? The once-unimaginable prospect is one the newspaper and its staff have faced for nearly two years after Telles, a 47-year-old former Clark County public administrator, was arrested and charged in the fatal stabbing of Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German. The shocking death of the veteran journalist came after the reporter spent months covering turmoil and allegations of harassment inside Telles’ office.…

You may have never heard of National Public Data, yet your personal information may have been compromised in the company’s recent massive data breach.The background check company, which is owned by Jerico Pictures Inc., recently released details of the breach after a proposed class action lawsuit alleged 2.9 billion personal records may have been exposed. Other reports suggest the amount of records leaked may have been more than 2.7 billion.In an official data breach notice filed in Maine, National Public Data indicated 1.3 million records may have been breached, said James E. Lee, chief operating officer at Identity Theft Resource…

Intel is working with advisors including Morgan Stanley to help defend itself against activist investors, according to people familiar with the matter, as CEO Pat Gelsinger attempts to turn around the struggling chipmaker. While Intel has faced activist pressure in the past, no new campaign has been formally launched and it isn’t clear if an activist investor has been in contact with the company’s board. Morgan Stanley has previously worked with Intel, including in the company’s 2022 spinoff of Mobileye. The sources with knowledge of Morgan Stanley’s latest involvement asked not to be named due to confidentiality. Representatives for Intel…

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics just reported that the U.S. added 818,000 fewer jobs over the last 12 months (through March) than they previously predicted. The -0.5% difference was reported in the preliminary estimate of the annual revision to the BLS employment series. Consumers won’t know the final numbers until February. The largest discrepancy occurred in the professional and business services sector, with the revision showing 358,000 fewer jobs than originally reported. The retail industry had the second-largest revision at 129,000 fewer jobs. Manufacturing came in third with 115,000 fewer jobs.The labor market isn’t in a dire place, but…