This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Friday, April 21st, 2023. 
 
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/space/spacexs-largest-rocket-explodes-after-launch
 
SpaceX's largest rocket ever built explodes four minutes after launch
 
SpaceX's Starship, the largest rocket ever launched, exploded four minutes after takeoff.
 
The spaceship exploded above the Gulf of Mexico shortly after takeoff, failing to achieve its ambitious goals, according to the New York Times. However, the explosion was only described as "A setback for Elon Musk and SpaceX, but not a fatal one."
 
SpaceX described the event as a "rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation" on Twitter as the launch and short flight played out.
 
SpaceX still saw the test flight as a partial success, with some employees busting open a bottle of champagne amid cheers of “Go Starship!”
 
https://www.dailyfetched.com/dom-lemon-loses-it-on-gop-candidate-gets-spooked-by-whats-said-in-earpiece/
 
Don Lemon LOSES IT on GOP Candidate
 
Business executive and the author of “Woke Inc,” Vivek Ramaswamy, who is vying for the 2024 presidential slot, appeared on “CNN This Morning” where he bumped heads with Lemon over whether the Civil War was fought to give blacks their constitutional rights.
 
Lemon became angered when Ramaswamy connected the Civil War, where gun rights were extended to freed blacks.
 
Ramaswamy argued the Democratic Party wishes to put black people “back in chains” with gun-control laws.
 
Don Lemon argues with Vivek Ramaswamy over the Civil War- Play Video 
 
Elsewhere…
 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/20/north-carolina-shooting-girl-parents-basketball-yard
 
Man shoots girl, six, and her parents after ball rolls into his backyard
 
A six-year-old girl and her parents were allegedly shot by a neighbor after a basketball that the child was playing with rolled into the attacker’s yard, according to authorities and local media reporting.
 
The shooting occurred on Wednesday in North Carolina when several young children were playing with a basketball which rolled into the yard of Robert Singletary, who neighbors say was new to the area and often mad at the local children, the news outlet WSOC-TV reported. It continued a recent spate of shootings across the US involving a property owner who fired at young people who approached them either by mistake or for an innocent reason.
 
Witnesses told the station that Singletary ran out of his home upset after the ball rolled on to his yard and started firing a gun at a neighbor. William White and his six-year-old daughter Kinsley were seriously hurt during the shooting. White had his own gun and tried to shoot back at Singletary, who witnesses say unloaded an entire magazine at White and his daughter.
 
White was seriously injured after being shot in the back. Hilderbrand was grazed by a bullet and was back home on Wednesday after being discharged from a hospital.
 
Singletary remained at large as of Thursday morning. Police warned local residents that he is armed and dangerous.
 
Wednesday was not the first time Singletary was accused of acting violently. He was separately charged in December with assaulting his girlfriend with a miniature sledgehammer and keeping her in their apartment for two hours as she was bleeding, ABC News re