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NEW YORK — Wayne LaPierre, who has led the National Rifle Association for more than 30 years, turning it into a potent political force opposing gun control measures, resigned Friday. The move by LaPierre, a 74-year-old who was born in upstate New York, came on the eve of a corruption trial he faces in Manhattan. The trial is part of a long running campaign by state Attorney General Letitia James against the NRA. “With pride in all that we have accomplished, I am announcing my resignation from the NRA,” LaPierre said in a statement. “I’ve been a card-carrying member of this organization for mos......

ORLANDO, Fla. -- News that Space Florida’s leader was stepping down after 14 years came out at the same time the Florida Legislature got to work on a bill that gives Gov. Ron DeSantis more power over the state organization that acts as a middleman to get the aerospace industry to come to the Sunshine State. Space Florida President and CEO Frank DiBello, 80, who took on the role in 2009 and will step down at the end of this month, said his departure actually had been in the works for more than a year, and it was time to get out in front of it. “I’ve been talking to the board for the past, proba......

DETROIT — Michigan State University has hired an outside firm to review its response to the Feb. 13 mass shooting that left three students dead and five critically injured. Interim MSU President Teresa Woodruff said in a statement Tuesday that the school has tapped Security Risk Management Consultants to lead the review. The Columbus, Ohio-based company will evaluate the university's immediate response to the shooting, including law enforcement action. It also will assess the school's operational response, campus support and communications protocols, she said. The company's staff includes form......

The U.S. State Department has named Benjamin Ziff, a career diplomat who was in charge of the agency’s migration policies for Latin America and the Caribbean, as the new chief of mission for the American Embassy in Havana. In a statement Monday, the embassy said Ziff assumed the role of chargé d’affaires on July 15. Previously, he headed a working group responsible for coordinating the department’s migration policy and strategy for the Western Hemisphere. He has been a deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs and deputy director of the Office of Central American Af......

A new calf was born to J pod of the southern resident orcas, Center for Whale Research director Ken Balcomb confirmed Tuesday morning. But the birth to orca mother J37 is tempered with news of the loss of two other pregnancies in southern resident families. The endangered whales' population is now 74. Scientists John Durban and Holly Fearnbach, of the marine mammal research and rescue nonprofit SR3, reported that routine, noninvasive monitoring of the orcas by drone photography determined two of the three expecting orcas had lost their calves. J19 and J36 appear to have decreased significantly......

Steven Spielberg must feel pretty. The “West Side Story” director scored his eighth Oscar nomination for best director Tuesday, making him just the fourth person to cross that threshold. Billy Wilder was also nominated for eight, Martin Scorsese has racked up nine and William Wyler earned 11. Spielberg was previously nominated for best director for “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” “Schindler’s List,” “Saving Private Ryan,” “Munich” and “Lincoln.” Tuesday’s nomination also means he has received such honors in six different decades. I......