
Marissa Parra
Miami Correspondent at NBC News
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1 week 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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2 weeks 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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1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | Minyvonne Burke |Marissa Parra
Video released by police shows the moment a recreational boat crashed into the back of a ferry in Clearwater, Florida, killing one person and injuring 10 others. The crash happened around 8:40 p.m. Sunday as a 40-foot commercial ferry returned from Clearwater Beach, authorities said. It was carrying 45 passengers and crew.
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Feb 20, 2025 |
nbcnews.com | Denise Chow |Marissa Parra
Elon Musk and European astronaut Andreas Mogensen exchanged barbs online after Musk suggested in a recent interview that two NASA astronauts were left on the International Space Station “for political reasons.”The public spat on X came in response to remarks Musk made Tuesday during a joint interview with President Donald Trump on Fox News.
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97% of voters voted for Starbase. Granted, only 283 people were eligible and most are SpaceX employees or affiliated somehow TBF I’m more surprised by the 6 people who voted against https://t.co/hXfin5EEwY

Cameron County is about to have a new city: Texas, meet Starbase Just voted into existence tonight ⬇️ https://t.co/RR6EiekMy0

RT @dennisjromero: Update: Lawyer for recreational vessel operator says video and witnesses prove he stayed at the site of the weekend's de…