Traci Mumford

Here's what we're covering.

My colleague Katrina Miller is on the ground in Texas to track the launch of the Artemis II mission.

It's currently scheduled for tonight, barring bad weather or other complications.

The capsule, which will be carried into space on a 300-plus-foot rocket, is set to travel around the moon, taking the astronauts farther from the Earth than anyone has been since 1972.

The two-hour launch window will start tonight at 6.24 p.m.

If all goes according to plan, this could pave the way for more Artemis missions.

That includes two lunar landing attempts set for 2028 to meet President Trump's goal of sending astronauts back to the moon before the end of his term.

The U.S.

has found itself in a space race once again, as China has said it's planning to try and land astronauts on the moon by 2030.

In the Oval Office yesterday, President Trump said the U.S.

will end its military campaign in Iran in the next few weeks.

And he promised to address the nation tonight with what the White House says will be an important update on the war.

Trump declared that the U.S.

has completely eliminated any nuclear threat from Iran, a claim that is not backed up by any evidence.

Iran still has nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium, which could be used to build a nuclear weapon.

Yesterday, the stock market surged amid hopes of the war ending soon.

Trump's address is scheduled for 9 p.m.

Eastern tonight.

Christina Goldbaum covers Lebanon for The Times, and she's found that Israel isn't telling everyone to leave from the areas it's targeting.

Israeli military officials have been calling several Christian and Druze communities and assuring them that they can stay and that they're actually only focused on driving Shiites out.