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Bomb disposal officials said the device was British-made. It is the fourth one they found in the Paris region since 2019.
Back here in the U.S., officials in New Mexico say that actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease and showed severe signs of Alzheimer’s. In a press conference today, authorities said the 95-year-old passed away a full week after his wife, who died from hantavirus. The bodies of Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were discovered last month in their Santa Fe home.
Hackman won two Oscars during his storied film career and was honored at last Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony.
The nation’s largest army installation officially returned to its former name today, Fort Bragg. The new sign was unveiled to the tune of “The Army Song.” This time, the name Bragg honors Army Private 1st Class Roland Bragg, a World War II paratrooper.
The base had originally been named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg. So ends the short time that the bass was called Fort Liberty after a push to remove all references of the Confederacy from military installations and other public spaces.
The mission of a lunar lander that touched down sideways yesterday has come to an early end. Athena sent this picture just before the spacecraft went silent today and ended up in a crater more than 800 feet from its planned landing site near the moon’s south pole. This was the second attempt by the Texas-based company Intuitive Machines to land on the moon.
Last year, its lander Odysseus also ended up on its side. The company has contracts with NASA for two more deliveries, but says it needs to figure out what went wrong before launching another mission.
On Wall Street today, stocks clawed back some ground after a rough week for the markets. The Dow Jones industrial average added more than 200 points, or about half-a-percent. The Nasdaq rose more than 120 points. The S&P 500 also ended higher today, but overall suffered its worst week since September.
And Dolly Parton has paid tribute to her late husband of nearly 60 years, fittingly enough, through song.
(Music)
