Newsletter Apr 21, 2023
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  • SpaceX's Starship explodes after blastoff in first test flight

    SpaceX's Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, exploded on Thursday during the first test flight of the spacecraft designed to send astronauts to the Moon, Mars and beyond. The rocket successfully blasted off at 8:33 a.m. CT from Starbase, the private SpaceX spaceport in Boca Chica, Texas. The Starship capsule was expected to separate from the first-stage rocket booster three minutes into the uncrewed flight but separation failed to occur.

    WHY SPACEX IS DECLARING THE MISSION A SUCCESS

  •  Pope, Trump lose blue ticks as Twitter starts enforcement

    Twitter began the mass removal of its blue ticks on Thursday, as the symbol previously used to signify a verified account vanished from users including the Pope, Donald Trump and Justin Bieber. Owner Elon Musk, who earlier pledged to get rid of what he called as a "lords & peasants system," offered instead to sell the blue badge for $8 a month in a move he said last year would "democratize journalism & empower the voice of the people."

    SEE WHICH HIGH-PROFILE ACCOUNTS HAVE LOST TICKS
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Biden, Macron have words over China trip

U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron signaled efforts Thursday to ease tensions in the wake of the French leader's recent remarks on Taiwan. The White House and Elysee said in separate statements after the phone call that the leaders discussed Macron's state visit in the first week of April to Beijing, where he spent several hours with President Xi Jinping. Macron caused a stir by telling reporters that European countries should not be drawn into a fight between China and the U.S. over democratic, Western-backed Taiwan.

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Lindell ordered to pay $5M for election lies

Mike Lindell, a prominent ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump, has been ordered to pay $5 million to a man who debunked Lindell's false claims of election fraud. An arbitration panel ordered Lindell, a well-known election conspiracy theorist, to pay cyber expert Robert Zeidman after he won a contest Lindell hosted in Nevada in July 2021. As part of that contest, Lindell offered to pay $5 million to anyone who disproved his theory.that the Chinese government had switched votes.

SEE HOW LINDELL'S OFFER CAME BACK TO BITE HIM FOR $5M

Baldwin's manslaughter charges dismissed

Manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin over a fatal shooting on a movie set are to be dropped, his lawyer said Thursday, as new special prosecutors take over the case. Baldwin was charged in January over the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during the filming of "Rust" in New Mexico in 2021, and pleaded not guilty. He was holding a Colt .45 gun during rehearsals when it discharged, killing Hutchins, but has said he was told the gun was safe and did not pull the trigger.

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What is the only movie to feature all four Baldwin brothers on screen?

Thursday's answer: Netflix shipped out its first DVD copy, "Beetlejuice", on March 10, 1998, prompting a 25-year run that ended Wednesday. 
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