Alex Ossola

Iran didn't deny that it shot down the helicopter, but the country's foreign minister suggested that taking it down had been an accident.

And NASA has chosen four astronauts for its next Artemis mission as it prepares for a moon landing in 2028.

There is Mission Commander Randy Bresnik, a retired Marine Corps colonel who became a NASA astronaut in 2004.

Also coming on the mission are Andre Douglas, who served in the Coast Guard as a naval architect, Frank Rubio, who once spent more than a year aboard the International Space Station, and Luca Parmitano, who's representing the European Space Agency.

Artemis 3 won't take them to the moon or around it as the previous flight did.

Instead, it will test hardware and vehicles that NASA intends to use for the eventual moon landing.

Their flight is expected to launch next year.

It will spend about two weeks in low-Earth orbit.

If you're American, you may already know that the fund that pays out Social Security is expected to be depleted within the next decade.

Social Security's trustees said today that the deadline is actually coming a few months earlier than they had previously projected.

Now it'll be in late 2032.

Ann Tergesen, who covers retirement and personal finance for the journal, says there are a few reasons why the shortfall is coming earlier.

But Ann says there's no need to panic quite yet that the fund only pays for a portion of the overall Social Security benefits.

Turning to the US economy, new data from the Commerce Department show that the trade deficit was almost unchanged in April, coming in at about $56 billion.

One big change was US crude oil exports, which rose by more than $6 billion as the Iran conflict rippled through global energy markets.

But overall, it's the latest indication that the Trump administration's tariffs have done little to rebalance the US trade position with the rest of the world.

Home sales last month posted the biggest increase this year.

They rose 3.2 percent in May from the month before, beating Wall Street's expectations.

Journal reporter Nicole Friedman says this is a sign of life for the housing market, but the trend might not last.

Coming up, what's weighing down tech stocks today?