
Marissa Parra
Miami Correspondent at NBC News
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2 weeks ago |
wptv.com | Marissa Parra
BOCA GRANDE, Fla. — A 9-year-old girl is recovering after a vicious shark attack along Florida's west coast. The child, Leah Lendel, was snorkeling with her siblings in waters off Boca Grande in Lee County.
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2 weeks ago |
today.com | Anna Kaplan |Alex Lo |Marissa Parra |Valeriya Antonshchuk
June 12, 2025, 8:57 AM EDT / Source: TODAYA 9-year-old girl was airlifted to the hospital to undergo emergency surgery to reattach her hand after she was attacked by a shark in Florida on Wednesday, June 10. Leah Lendel's hand was partly severed in the incident, but doctors worked to reattach it at a hospital, her uncle Max Derinskiy told NBC News. "The doctors were able to do some miracles and put her hand back together," Derinsky said.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Denise Chow |Marissa Parra
4 hours agoElon Musk latest message sends Tesla stock surgingThe mercurial CEO's blunt take sent Tesla shares soaring. Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, has a lot on his plate. The mercurial leader runs Tesla, SpaceX, …NowSpaceX reached space with Starship Flight 9 launch, then lost control of its giant spaceship (video)The company did successfully reuse a its Super Heavy booster, but it too exploded.
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1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | Kailani Koenig |Marissa Parra |Erik Ortiz |Kevin Collier
May 22, 2025, 4:38 PM EDTFederal officials are reviewing writings that they say may belong to the man suspected of fatally gunning down two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., as they investigate whether the attack was motivated by antisemitism.
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1 month ago |
cnbc.com | Denise Chow |Marissa Parra
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS - MARCH 13: People spend time on the beach near the Starship Flight 3 Rocket a day before its scheduled launch at the Starbase facility near Boca Chica beach on March 13, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. Texas has a brand new city, and its name is Starbase. A vote Saturday to decide whether to turn part of south Texas into a new city centered around Elon Musk's SpaceX delivered a victory to the tech billionaire and his rocket company.
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