The California man who was separated from his wife in the chaotic moments of Thursday’s terrorist attack in Barcelona, Spain, was among the 13 killed at the scene, his family said Friday.
The father of 42-year-old Jared Tucker, Dan Tucker, told NBC News that Tucker’s wife, Heidi Nunes, confirmed her husband’s death. The Walnut Creek couple were in Europe celebrating their first wedding anniversary and had just enjoyed drinks on Barcelona’s wide, largely pedestrianized tourist street of La Rambla when their relaxing vacation was shattered by sharp cries.
“Next thing I know there’s screaming, yelling,” Nunes, a 40-year-old teacher, earlier told NBC News. “I got pushed inside the souvenir kiosk and stayed there hiding while everybody kept running by screaming.”
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Heidi Nunes and her husband Jared Tucker. This photo was taken just an hour before the attack. Heidi Nunes
One of the reasons a total solar eclipse is possible is because of an amazing cosmic coincidence: the Sun is four hundred times larger than the Moon but is also four hundred times farther away. This makes them seem like they are relatively the same size from our perspective here on Earth.
Here is a quick demo about how to build a pinhole projector to safely view a projection of the eclipsed sun. When looking at the eclipse directly, protective eclipse glasses are necessary to prevent eye damage.
The Pentagon has prepared a specific plan for a preemptive strike on North Korea’s missile sites should President Trump order such an attack.
Two senior military officials — and two senior retired officers — told NBC News that key to the plan would be a B-1B heavy bomber attack originating from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam.
Pairs of B-1s have conducted 11 practice runs of a similar mission since the end of May, the last taking place on Monday. The training has accelerated since May, according to officials. In an actual mission, the non-nuclear bombers would be supported by satellites and drones and surrounded by fighter jets as well as aerial refueling and electronic warfare planes.
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A US Air Force B-1B Lancer assigned to the 37th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed from Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, USA during a 10-hour mission from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. US Air Force / EPA
The trip to the bat cave was just a filler, a way to kill time while the more interesting attractions in the Uganda jungle, the gorillas and chimpanzees, were snoozing away in the heat of the day.
Michelle Barnes brought back more than memories from that trip. She came home infected with Marburg virus — a cousin of Ebola that’s even deadlier.
Now Barnes’ blood has provided a potential cure for the infection. Researchers at Vanderbilt University and Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. isolated an especially potent immune system protein called a monoclonal antibody from Barnes and have used it to cure monkeys infected not only with Marburg virus, but with a related virus called Ravn.
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Scientists work in a specialized, high-security biological containment facility at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas while developing therapies for dangerous pathogens like the Marburg and Ravn viruses. University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
A great white shark jumped inside a 73-year-old fisherman’s boat — and he lived to tell the tale with little more than a skinned arm.
Australian Terry Selwood was fishing in calm waters in the same spot he’s been dropping a line for the last 50 years when the 7-foot long, 440-pound shark leaped into his vessel on Saturday.
“I just caught a blur coming in the corner of me eye … and this thing hit me in the forearm, spun me round and knocked me off me feet,” Selwood told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
He recounted scrambling to safety as the shark was “thrashing around madly.”
When Selwood looked down, he said to himself: “There’s a shark in me boat!”
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The shark that landed in Terry Selwood’s boat. Marine Rescue NSW
You’re talking about movies with friends and there’s this film you must tell them about. What was it called, that one about the thing, you know, with that actor, what’s his name? You grab your phone, get your answer and conversation proceeds uninterrupted.
You solved the puzzle and all is well. But what about your brain? Is constantly feeding it the right answer —with your phone being a bottomless Pez dispenser of factoids — making it lazy? Does it eventually atrophy? Who needs an internal memory when we’ve got Siri?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you’ve had a job, you’ve probably worked with someone we might politely call “difficult.”
Or as Dr. Jody J. Foster would say, “a schmuck.”
Foster, the author of “The Schmuck in My Office,” has developed a field guide of sorts for office jerks.
As a psychiatrist and MBA, Foster has developed quite the expertise in schmuckery: She oversees a program at the University of Pennsylvania for physicians who become disruptive, and has expanded it to help troubled employees elsewhere.
It’s a plane, it’s a blimp … it’s the world’s largest aircraft.
A massive airship dubbed the Airlander 10 recently completed a successful test flight, bringing the helium-filled behemoth one step closer to commercial use.
Though it looks like a massive blimp, the Airlander 10 combines technology from airplanes, helicopters, and airships. It is designed to stay aloft at altitudes of up to 20,000 feet (6,100 meters) for up to five days when manned, according to Hybrid Air Vehicles, the company that built the aircraft. And at a mammoth 302 feet (92 m) long, it is the largest aircraft currently flying.
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At a mammoth 302 feet (92 meters) long, the blimp-like Airlander 10 is the largest aircraft currently flying. Hybrid Air Vehicles /
O.J. Simpson won his bid Thursday for an early release from prison after a Nevada parole board unanimously granted the request.
He could be out from behind bars as soon as Oct. 1 — but that doesn’t mean he’s walking out a free man.
“Parole is but one step out of the prison gate,” said Laurie Levenson, a Loyola Law School in Los Angeles professor and longtime Simpson case commentator.
O.J. Simpson won his bid Thursday for an early release from prison after a Nevada parole board unanimously granted the request.
He could be out from behind bars as soon as Oct. 1 — but that doesn’t mean he’s walking out a free man.
“Parole is but one step out of the prison gate,” said Laurie Levenson, a Loyola Law School in Los Angeles professor and longtime Simpson case commentator.
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Heidi Nunes and her husband Jared Tucker. This photo was taken just an hour before the attack. Heidi Nunes
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At a mammoth 302 feet (92 meters) long, the blimp-like Airlander 10 is the largest aircraft currently flying.
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