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Chloe Na says she studied every day for several hours ahead of the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee.“Trying to be well-rounded and make it through the dictionary,” she says of her strategy during the competition. One word the 12-year-old girl from Valencia, California is already familiar with: perseverance.When Na was in D.C., she received some heartbreaking news. Her grandfather, one of her biggest fans, died from a heart condition.“I think he would be proud,” she says. “He was always there to support us for every spelling bee.”Na’s mother, Denise, says the family decided to stay and compete, because they know that’s what Na’s grandfather would have wanted.“He was very excited. He would text me, call me, when we were taking about the Spelling Bee, so I’m happy he got the good news,” Denise Na says.While Na did not end up making it to the finals, she’s proud of what she accomplished and happy the pressure is off. Until next year that is.“I’m gonna practice again in a few months,” Na says. “I’m not gonna start right now, and I’m gonna try to do the nationals next year.”It’s an outlook she hopes will make her grandfather proud. 1157

Extraterrestrial travel is all the rage: Elon Musk's SpaceX has pledged to put the first humans on Mars. Amazon chief Jeff Bezos has his sights set on the moon. And NASA wants to speed up its plan to send astronauts back into deep space.But if these bold plans become reality, what will everyone wear?It's not a minor detail. Without the proper attire, your blood could turn to gas inside your body before your foot hits the sandy surface of the Red Planet.Amy Ross, head of the Advanced Spacesuit and Technology Lab at NASA's Johnson Space Center, is leading development of the next generation of NASA spacesuits. The new prototypes aim to make it easier for the wearer to move around, improving on the puffy white suits that astronauts have worn on spacewalks for decades."That's one of the big differences going forward, is how [good] the mobility of the full body is," Ross told CNN Business. "Our prime objectives, which sounds very Star Trek-y, is to make sure that we're ready with the right tools for spacesuit design to go wherever we might need to go" — whether that's the moon, Mars or somewhere else.The prototypes, called the Z-series, are still in early testing phases. But the end product may not end up looking a whole lot different from its predecessor: It'll probably still be puffy and white, according to Ross."We don't really get to play with how the suits look...[but] we think the suits are beautiful because that's the way they turn out," Ross joked.Give me sci-fi suitsFor flashy commercial space companies, aesthetics can be a bit more important.Companies like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic want to send tourists who pay top-dollar on short scenic trips to space. Those missions will be suborbital, and the passengers will stay safely inside an air-tight spacecraft — so there's no need to worry about pressurized suits with life support systems.Branson's company 1906

Chris Matthews, the longtime host of MSNBC's "Hardball," announced his retirement effectively immediately at the start of the program Monday evening. When he said "immediately," he meant it. Matthews gave a brief statement at the beginning of the program, and did not finish the show. MSNBC political director Steve Kornacki, who expressed his surprise by the decision, filled in for the rest of the program. Matthews joined MSNBC in 1999, after "Hardball" was aired on CNBC from 1997 to 1999. Matthews' retirement comes just days after a tweet by GQ's Laura Bassett saying that Matthews had acted inappropriately toward her. "In 2017, I wrote about a cable news host being gross and inappropriate with me. I was afraid to name him at the time," she 762

Delaware has joined a growing list of states that have passed laws to potentially allocate their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote in future presidential elections.Democratic Gov. John Carney 219

Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump has requested the release of body camera footage recorded by two mounted Galveston police officers who led a handcuffed black man down the city's streets.The police department has 30 days to comply, or face a civil rights march through the city, Crump said at a press conference Monday.Two Galveston police arrested Donald Neely earlier this month. Photos show them on horseback, leading the 43-year-old by what appeared to be a rope. Neely was on foot.Police said the officer was holding a "line" that was clipped to the man's handcuffs, not a rope. But the photo evoked images of slave hunters dragging captured slaves, Crump said, and "everybody who you talk to in communities of color were heartbroken."The police department apologized last week, and Police Chief Vernon L Hale III said it caused Neely "unnecessary embarrassment," and that the officers showed "poor judgment.""Until you release that video from that body cam, we are not going anywhere," Crump said. "We're going to stay here and stand with Donald Neely and his family."If the video isn't released in 30 days, other civil, human and mental health advocates will join them to "have a great march on Galveston, and we're going to march down the same streets that you dragged Donald Neely down by rope," Crump said.Police said Neely was charged with criminal trespass. Officers had warned him on previous occasions to stay away from a location in the downtown visitor district where he was arrested, police spokesman Sgt. Xavier Hancock said last week.Neely family attorney Melissa Morris said last week that Neely suffers from bipolar disorder and is not taking medication to treat it. He had been homeless for about seven years, she said. Crump said police knew Neely suffered from a mental illness.Neely spent 20 hours in jail, Morris told CNN. Morris said Neely's family was looking for him when the photo went viral."The way they drug my brother down the street just really tore my heart," Neely's sister, Taranette Neely, said at Monday's press conference. "I mean, I was just in shock. And I'm still in shock. I can't believe that they would do this to my brother. The sweetest person on this earth."Speaking to CNN's Don Lemon Monday night, Taranette Neely said her brother is loving and was always there for the family."He's sweet as gold. He'll give you his last," she said of her brother. "He has no problem with sharing, loving, or just being there for you."She said she wants the police officers involved arrested and wants the department's handling of those with mental illness to change.The department last week said it understands "the negative perception of this action" and that it will stop using the transportation technique."My officers did not have any malicious intent at the time of the arrest, but we have immediately changed the policy to prevent the use of this technique and will review all mounted training and procedures for more appropriate methods," Chief Hale said in a statement.Only seeing the video would offer assurance that the police were of good character, Crump said Monday."Chief Hale, we're asking you to release the body camera recordings of these officers immediately, and start to heal this community, and in many ways, start to heal America," Crump said.CNN has reached out to the Galveston Police Department for comment. 3385