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French President Emmanuel Macron has offered a thinly-veiled critique of President Trump, saying the Iran war requires a, quote, serious approach and not one that changes every day.

NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports on the first time Macron has called out Trump so directly.

President Trump says Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will lead the Justice Department for the time being.

Trump named Blanche acting attorney general after ousting Pam Bondi Thursday.

Bondi's ouster follows months of scrutiny over the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files and her handling of cases against President Trump's perceived political enemies.

The State Department had a self-imposed deadline this week.

Back in September, officials gave themselves six months to get their new global health strategy up and running.

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Pierre's Gabriella Emanuel reports things are off schedule.

NASA's Artemis II mission with its crew of four astronauts is now bound for the moon.

The Orion spacecraft called Integrity left Earth orbit Thursday after the astronauts fired up its engine for 5 minutes 50 seconds.

The astronauts now on track for a lunar flyby early next week.

By the time they return to Earth, the astronauts will have broken the human spaceflight distance record set in 1970 by Apollo 13, Artemis II, a key test flight in NASA's lunar ambitions.

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Myanmar's recently elected parliament has chosen the leader of the 2021 coup against the elected government as its new president.

Michael Sullivan reports from neighboring Thailand.

The president of Wisconsin's largest mosque has been detained by federal immigration agents.

The Islamic Society of Milwaukee says Salah Sarsour was taken into custody on Monday by nearly a dozen ICE agents.

Sarsour is a Palestinian-born legal permanent resident.