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Chapter 1: What are the details of NASA's Artemis II mission to the moon?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.
Three, two, one, booster ignition. And liftoff. The crew of Artemis II now bound for the moon. Humanity's next great voyage begins.
Four astronauts are on their way to fly around the moon. NASA launched humanity's first lunar trip in 53 years. The 32-story rocket blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. The crew's capsule will circle Earth before hurtling 1,000 miles beyond the moon and making a U-turn to come back around the other side.
The entire mission will take 10 days and span 230,000 miles, ending with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. President Trump says he will bomb Iran back to the Stone Ages if it doesn't open up the Strait of Hormuz. Trump's remarks come a day after he said he was nearly ready to wind down the war.
Trump also said that Iran's president asked for a ceasefire, but Iran's foreign ministry spokesman called the claim false and baseless. The Supreme Court seems skeptical of President Trump's restrictions on birthright citizenship. Trump's order declares that children born to parents who are in the U.S. illegally or temporarily are not U.S. citizens.
Trump appeared in the courtroom a first for a sitting president. Immigration has been a central issue to his presidency, as NPR's Mara Liason explains.
His immigration policies right now are net negative. They used to be some of his biggest positives. People like the idea of a secure border and deporting criminals, but they haven't been happy about how he went about mass deportation. So his support among voters on immigration has dropped. His support among Latino voters has plummeted largely because of this issue.
So if the justices rule in his favor and say citizenship is not given to every baby born in the U.S., there will be a lot of happiness on the right, energy, motivation, and also on the left who are against his immigration policies. We don't have really good polling on that yet.
NPR's Mara Liason reporting. An overhaul of federal homelessness spending remains blocked after an appeals court ruling. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports it's the latest blow to the Trump administration's push to set new conditions for such aid.
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Chapter 2: What are President Trump's recent statements regarding Iran?
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They found that early cases were driven by sexual contact, sometimes with a few individuals acting as super spreaders. But later, close non-sexual contact with those initial cases and subsequent ones took over. Ultimately, that non-sexual transmission can lead to larger outbreaks. Jonathan Lambert, NPR News.
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