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Troubled Boeing Starliner will return to earth without stranded astronauts: NASA

NASA officials announced on Saturday that the troubled Boeing Starliner spacecraft that shuttled two astronauts to space in June will return to earth without them.
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck in space after engineers discovered helium leaks and issues involving thrusters shortly after Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner docked with the International Space Station, which prompted NASA and Boeing to investigate.
The uncrewed return allows NASA and Boeing to continue gathering testing data on Starliner during its upcoming flight back to earth, while also not accepting more risk than necessary for its crew, NASA officials said.
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NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams pose on June 13, 2024 inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module and Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. (NASA)
“The decision to keep Butch and Suni aboard the International Space Station and bring Boeing’s Starliner home uncrewed is the result of our commitment to safety: our core value and our North Star,” NASA administrator Bill Nelson told reporters.
“I’m grateful to both the NASA and Boeing teams for all their incredible and detailed work.”
The pair originally blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on June 5, on a test flight mission that was initially expected to last a week.
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NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will not be returning to earth with the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that shuttled them to the International Space Station. (NASA)
They will now return with a SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon mission, which will not launch before Sept. 24 as that mission needs to reduce its crew of four to two to make room for the stranded astronauts, who are expected to return in February 2025. The Crew-9 mission will carry additional cargo as well as Dragon-specific spacesuits for Wilmore and Williams, as their Boeing spacesuits are incompatible with the SpaceX spacecraft.
Since the problems were identified, engineering teams have been poring over data, conducting flight and ground testing, as well as developing various return contingency plans.
The uncertainty and lack of expert agreement about being able to return the crew safely on the Starliner prompted NASA leadership to move the astronauts to the Crew-9 mission.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on June 5, 2024 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Paul Hennessy/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Starliner is expected to depart from the space station and land back on earth autonomously in early September, which it is designed to do. The spacecraft has completed two uncrewed flights in the past.
Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, said Starliner is a very capable spacecraft and, ultimately, the decision came down to needing a higher level of certainty to perform a crewed return.
“The NASA and Boeing teams have completed a tremendous amount of testing and analysis, and this flight test is providing critical information on Starliner’s performance in space,” Stich said.
“Our efforts will help prepare for the uncrewed return and will greatly benefit future corrective actions for the spacecraft.”
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GOP rep speaks out after being forced to evacuate offices over threats from pro-abortion activists

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Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., is speaking out about the death threats she’s received from pro-abortion activists after publicly sharing her experience with a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy — an ordeal that ultimately led to the evacuation of her offices.
Cammack told “Fox & Friends First” on Friday that she was targeted by pro-abortion activists after sharing her life-threatening ectopic pregnancy story with The Wall Street Journal.
Last May, the Florida congresswoman found herself in a frightening position when her doctors were hesitant to treat her possibly fatal pregnancy complication due to the state’s near-total abortion ban.
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“It took about 10 days to discover exactly what was going on. Doctors originally thought that I was just miscarrying, and then they discovered a very rare ectopic — actually one of the rarest and most dangerous types of ectopic pregnancies you can have,” she said.
Cammack detailed the death threats she received after sharing her experience with an ectopic pregnancy on “Fox & Friends First” on Friday.
Cammack noted that while Florida’s abortion laws have exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother, her doctors were still hesitant to provide her with life-saving care because they were scared they would face losing their license or even being sent to prison.
“I literally was lying on the table reading them the law, and it dawned on me as I was sitting there with my husband — this is what women are experiencing because of the fearmongering around women’s healthcare, and it has to stop,” she asserted, adding, “The left absolutely played a role in making sure that doctors and women were scared to seek out the help that they needed.”
Following the publication of her story in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, Cammack began receiving death threats from pro-abortion activists, leading to the evacuation of her offices.
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One of the threats she received read: “We would be better off if you hadn’t survived. The only good Republican is a dead Republican.”

Cammack lamented the “fearmongering” that she felt was responsible for women being scared to seek out the life-saving help that they need. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Cammack said that she’s received “thousands of threatening phone calls” and more than three dozen “actionable, credible” death threats since sharing her story.
“Things that are so horrible, like ‘I’m going to come cut out your unborn child and roast it over a fire.’ Things that I can’t say on air,” the congresswoman recalled.
“What is really, really scary is the vitriol and the fact that people don’t even want to look into the details or take accountability for their actions,” she said.
According to Cammack, the most important lesson she’s taken away from her traumatic experience is that there’s not only a “literacy crisis” unfolding in the country, but also a basic lack of understanding of “what healthcare for women is,” adding that “ectopic pregnancies are not abortions.”
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Scoop: New Republican Senate candidate in Kentucky to team up with top Trump ally

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FIRST ON FOX – Republican businessman and entrepreneur Nate Morris, the newly announced Senate candidate in the 2026 Kentucky race to succeed retiring former longtime GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell, will team up with a top ally of President Donald Trump.
Morris, who is showcasing his political outsider credentials and his support for Trump’s MAGA movement, will be joined at a campaign event just south of Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday morning by conservative leader Charlie Kirk.
The news was first shared with Fox News on Friday.
Kirk, a MAGA world rock star and ally of Trump and the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., leads the influential Turning Point USA youth organization.
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Charlie Kirk addresses the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 15, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Segar)
It’s likely that Kirk, who has praised Morris, will endorse him when the two team up on the campaign trail.
Morris joins Rep. Andy Barr and former Kentucky Attorney General and 2023 GOP gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron in the race for the Republican Senate nomination in the red-leaning state.
The GOP nomination, which will be decided in next spring’s Kentucky primary, will likely turn into a referendum on McConnell and a battle for Trump’s support.
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A campaign release announcing Morris’ candidacy described him as “a staunch ally of President Trump” who would “be a warrior for the America First agenda” in the Senate.
And Morris declared his candidacy during an interview on “Triggered,” a popular podcast hosted by Donald Trump Jr., who has praised him.
He’s also a personal friend of Vice President JD Vance.
Morris has been a leading voice in Kentucky this year in his criticism of McConnell, who has long been a top GOP Trump antagonist.
He pilloried McConnell, who stepped down from his Senate GOP leadership position, for the senator’s votes against top Trump Cabinet nominees. And he blasted Barr and Cameron – who was once seen as a McConnell protege – for not aggressively criticizing the senator for his votes.
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McConnell announced on his 83rd birthday in February that he wouldn’t seek re-election next year. McConnell has held the seat since 1985 and is the longest-serving senator in Kentucky history.
Morris said the GOP Senate primary will be “a referendum on Mitch McConnell’s record, it’s a referendum on Mitch McConnell’s legacy.”
And he aimed to tie Barr and Cameron to the senator, claiming that “you have two McConnellites who owe everything to Mitch McConnell versus the outside business guy that’s running as the MAGA candidate. I think that contrast is gonna be very, very striking to Kentuckians all over the state because they’ve had enough of Mitch.”

Republican Rep. Andy Barr, seen during a Fox News Digital interview on Capitol Hill in 2023, is running for the Senate in the race to succeed Mitch McConnell. (Fox News Digital )
But Barr’s campaign quickly returned fire, arguing that “Nate Morris is pretending to be MAGA now, but he can’t run from all the liberal trash in his past.”
And Barr took to social media to highlight that “I’m the ONLY candidate in this race who has a RECORD of supporting President .@realDonaldTrump and advancing the MAGA agenda. President Trump and I will continue to Make America Great Again when I’m in the U.S. Senate.”
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Cameron, in a social media post, also criticized Morris, charging his new rival is “a globalist who dons a MAGA hat and pretends to be ‘America First’ now that we are on the rise.”

Former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, seen during his 2023 Republican campaign for governor, is running for the Senate. (Fox News/Brandon Gillespie)
Morris, in announcing his bid, showcased his family’s blue-collar roots.
According to a bio released by his campaign, he’s a ninth-generation Kentuckian with family ties to Appalachia, was raised in a union household by a single mother, and attended public schools, his campaign bio said.
The campaign said 19 of Morris’ relatives worked at a local auto plant, where his grandfather served as the union leader.
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While Morris can’t compete with Cameron and Barr when it comes to name recognition in Kentucky, he’ll be able to launch ads highlighting his bio using the wealth he earned as an entrepreneur.
Morris founded Rubicon on a $10,000 line of credit and turned it into one of the country’s largest waste and recycling companies.
In a campaign launch video, Morris said: “I know a little bit about garbage. And Mitch McConnell? He’s trashed Trump and for over 40 years, he’s been dumping on us.”
“Let’s dump career politicians and take out the trash in Washington,” he added.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, the former longtime GOP Senate leader, is retiring after his term is over at the end of next year. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Morris currently serves as chairman and CEO of Morris Industries, which he founded in 2010.
“When I came into the world, my mother was on food stamps. We have been fighting and scrapping for everything we have like most Kentuckians,” Morris said.
“I have been able to live the American dream because of how great this country is.”
The Morris campaign is being led by veterans of the 2024 Trump-Vance campaign, including veteran pollster Tony Fabrizio, strategists Andy Surabian, Chris Grant and data consultant Tim Saler.
An outside group supporting the Morris campaign is being overseen by Trump-Vance 2024 veterans Arthur Schwartz, Luke Thompson and Cliff Sims.
With two-term Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman both passing on a Senate run, state House minority floor leader Pamela Stevenson is making a bid.
But it’s been over three decades since a Democrat won a Senate race in Kentucky.
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Firefighter dies after vacation excursion with family at summer hot spot

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A North Carolina community is mourning the loss of a firefighter who died while snorkeling on vacation in Turks and Caicos with his family.
Jaywon Lyons died earlier this month on a snorkeling excursion on the island shortly after taking a photo, his girlfriend, Sonya Moore, told The Greenville Daily Reflector.
“I rushed over and I literally couldn’t even stand while they were doing CPR,” Moore told the outlet. “I had my parents take my son and I just remained with him. We tried to get him stable. He was stable for a while.”
Authorities transported Lyons to a local hospital, and Moore tried to schedule an ICU flight back to the United States.
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A North Carolina firefighter died while snorkeling in Turks and Caicos. (iStock)
“At the hospital, it just took a turn for the worse,” Moore told the Reflector.
Lyons deployed with the Little River Volunteer Fire Department to assist with relief efforts after Hurricane Helene and served at several other North Carolina fire departments over the course of his career, according to the Red Oak Community Rural Fire Department.
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Jay Lyons deployed with the Little River Volunteer Fire Department to assist with relief efforts after Hurricane Helene and served at several other North Carolina fire departments over the course of his career. (Red Oak Rural Community Fire Dept.)
“We are sorry to report the loss of our brother Red Oak Firefighter Jay Lyons today in a tragic accident while he was on vacation outside of the country,” the Department said in a June 6 Facebook post. “Jay was well-liked here at Red Oak and he made a lasting impression on everyone.”
“He was an optimistic person who loved his family,” the Red Oak Community FD said.
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Edgecombe County remembered Lyons as one of the county’s first firefighters in a June 7 Facebook post.

Jay Lyons leaves behind two daughters, ages 3 and 1. (Edgecombe County)
“As one of Edgecombe County’s first firefighters, he served with courage, kindness, and a heart for others. His impact was felt far beyond our team, and all who knew him admired and loved him,” the county said.
A GoFundMe for the firefighter titled “Continued help for Jaywon’s Family” says Lyons’ body was returned to North Carolina on June 23.
Lyons leaves behind two daughters, ages 3 and 1.
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