Highland Park Death Toll Increases to 7, Including Parents of Toddler Who Got Separated from Them During Shooting

"We were just opening the door to walk up the stairs and we heard it," recalled Silva, herself a mother of two, speaking to The Daily Beast. "Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And it sounded like someone was, like, pounding on the glass doors."

When she went outside on the street, she was struck by the eerie silence, Silva told The New York Times. "You didn't hear screams. Everyone looked like they were in a trance."

https://people.com/crime/mother-recalls-rescuing-toddler-covered-father-blood/

California Governor Gavin Newsom Signs New Budget Creating Nation’s First Tax Credit For Union DuesIn the most populous state in the U.S., California, leading politicians often talk about equity, equality, and their efforts to achieve both. Yet a tax break included in the new California state budget signed by Governor Gavin Newsom (D) on June 27 will exacerbate existing inequality in state taxation, critics contend.

California is one of only a handful of states where union dues are tax deductible for state income tax purposes. As part of the new state budget recently signed by Newsom, California lawmakers have made that targeted tax break even more valuable.

The new budget passed by lawmakers in mid-June and signed by Governor Newsom two weeks later will take California’s existing tax deduction for union dues payments and turn it into a tax credit capped at 33% of dues paid. Changing the deduction to a credit makes the union tax break more generous and benefits those who don’t itemize or have a tax liability.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickgleason/2022/07/06/california-governor-gavin-newsom-signs-new-budget-creating-nations-first-tax-credit-for-union-dues/?sh=1ca76b4132e9

NASA Loses Contact With Moon Probe, Delays Trajectory Correction ManeuverEverything was going great for NASA's Capstone mission to lunar orbit after the microwave-sized spacecraft launched June 28 atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster. On Monday, the probe was successfully deployed from a Photon upper stage and sent in the direction of the moon.

But then it just stopped talking to Earth. NASA engineers are working to re-establish contact with Capstone's computers.

"Following successful deployment and start of spacecraft commissioning on July 4, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft experienced communications issues while in contact with the Deep Space Network," according to a statement from NASA on Tuesday.

Now that it is on its own without Rocket Lab chaperones, Capstone is supposed to use its own propulsion system to navigate to the moon where it will attempt to enter a new type of halo-shaped orbit around the moon. The craft is testing out the same orbit to be used by NASA's upcoming lunar gateway, which will serve as an orbiting outpost for Artemis astronauts visiting the moon's surface later this decade.

NASA said Capstone is carrying enough fuel that its initial navigation maneuvers can be postponed for several days while mission controllers work to re-establish contact with the spacecraft.

A subsequent update revealed Capstone had pinged two NASA ground stations – one in Madrid, Spain, and the other in Goldstone, California. With this information, NASA was able to determine the probe's "approximate position and velocity in space." However, the agency notes its first trajectory correction maneuver has been delayed.

https://www.cnet.com/science/space/nasa-loses-contact-with-moon-probe-delays-trajectory-correction-maneuver/