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NASA announced a single crew member suffered a medical situation Wednesday on board the International Space Station that forced the postponement of a planned spacewalk. It has since said the crew member is stable, but that the Crew-11 mission may need to leave earlier than planned.

“Safely conducting our missions is our highest priority, and we are actively evaluating all options, including the possibility of an earlier end to Crew-11’s mission,” NASA posted on its website. “These are the situations NASA and our partners train for and prepare to execute safely. We will provide further updates within the next 24 hours.”

The postponement was originally announced stating NASA was monitoring a medical concern that arose Wednesday afternoon.

“Due to medical privacy, it is not appropriate for NASA to share more details about the crew member,” NASA had stated.

The spacewalk was to have involved veteran NASA astronaut and space station commander Mike Fincke along with NASA’s Zena Cardman, a flight engineer, both members of Crew-11, which launched from Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 1 last year. read more

Q: Our association board members never seem to enforce the rules, and recently, this ended up with someone getting hurt. Is our association liable because of this? Are the board members? — Andy

A: Community associations are responsible for maintaining the community and enforcing its rules. When board members fail to enforce these rules, it can lead to confusion, frustration, and, in some cases, serious consequences.

If someone is injured as a result of the board’s inaction, it is natural to wonder whether the association or even the board members themselves could be held liable.

Liability in these situations depends on the specific circumstances and the association’s governing documents.

Generally, the association, as an entity, could be held responsible if the injury resulted from the board’s failure to maintain common areas or enforce safety rules.

For example, if the association failed to repair a broken sidewalk or ignored complaints about a dangerous condition, it could be found negligent. Negligence occurs when someone fails to take reasonable steps to prevent harm, and that failure directly causes an injury. read more

Unable to stop the the imminent sale of the historic Hungerford school property, the Eatonville Town Council hopes it can meet with the land’s planned buyer and influence the deal.

The council met Tuesday evening just hours after the Orange County School Board, which owns the 117-acre property, signaled its plans to sell the land to Dr. Phillips Charities.

The fate of the Hungerford property has long been controversial and the latest plans, which the school board is likely to approve next week, are as well.

The charity wants to develop the land with housing, retail businesses, including a grocery store, and a conference hotel center along with the educational facilities, medical facilities and parks. It also plans to donate some of the property back to the town.

But some town leaders, who pushed for the school board to donate the land directly to Eatonville, worry Dr. Phillips plans’ do not include enough projects that would build the town’s tax base.

The school site sits along Interstate 4 and serves as a gateway to the town. Eatonville, founded by freed slaves, bills itself as the oldest Black-run municipality in the nation. Town and school leaders have long hoped new development on the now-vacant property would boost Eatonville’s limited tax base and jump-start a revitalization of the town, which has has struggled economically. read more

By JOSH BOAK, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he wants to block large institutional investors from buying houses, saying that a ban would make it easier for younger families to buy their first homes.

Trump — who has been under pressure to address voters’ concerns about affordability ahead of November midterm elections — is tapping into long-standing fears that corporate ownership of homes has pushed out traditional buyers, forcing more people to rent. But his plan does little to address the overarching challenges for the housing market: a national shortage of home construction and prices that have climbed faster than incomes.

“People live in homes, not corporations,” Trump said in a social media post as he called on Congress to codify his ban.

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Lawyers representing the Orlando Sentinel and an array of news organizations suing OpenAI for allegedly stealing and distorting their reporters’ work have asked a Manhattan judge to sanction ChatGPT’s parent company, alleging the tech behemoth deleted millions of conversations they were required to hand over as evidence of copyright infringement.

OpenAI continued to destroy output logs despite orders from two judges to preserve and provide them to the news organizations, new court filings allege. More than 1 million logs that had been requested — containing information the news outlets believe was based on their journalists’ reporting — were subbed out, according to court documents.

“[A]fter this Court ordered OpenAI to produce 20 million logs over OpenAI’s vociferous and repeated objections, OpenAI substituted millions of conversations that it was ordered to produce with other conversations – seemingly because it had deleted millions of the selected logs,” attorney Steve Lieberman wrote to the court in a Monday letter. read more