Carmel Crimmins

Hi, I'm Carmel Crimmins in Dublin.

It's Thursday, April 2nd.

Today.

After 50 years of waiting, a new lunar mission blasts off.

Trump vows to finish the job in Iran and makes a historic appearance at the Supreme Court for a battle over birthright citizenship.

And Elon Musk's SpaceX files for an IPO.

This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week.

Liftoff for the Artemis II spacecraft.

It's NASA's first crewed lunar mission in more than half a century.

Four astronauts will spend the next 10 days on a high-stakes journey that'll loop around the Moon, testing new equipment and laying the groundwork for a possible lunar landing by 2028.

Our space reporter, Joey Roulette, was at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the launch and says that this mission is part of a new space race.

You can hear more from Joey on this week's episode of On Assignment, where he'll explain NASA's big mission and what could come next if it all goes according to plan.

That podcast drops on Saturday.

Five weeks into the war against Iran, and US President Donald Trump is taking to the airwaves in a 19-minute primetime address to sell the war to Americans.

But he didn't give a precise timeline for when it would end.

Trump is facing increasing political pressure for an exit strategy as gas prices soar and polls show two-thirds of Americans want out.

Here's White House reporter Steve Holland.

The path to ending the war remains unclear.

But what happens if the U.S.

pulls out altogether?