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What recent achievements did the astronauts accomplish during their moon mission?
The first astronauts to fly close to the moon in more than half a century are now home after splashing down in the Pacific late Friday. Rick Henfling was the entry flight director for the mission. He says the flight was close to perfect.
Integrity and her crew of four astronauts flew 700,237 miles. We hit our flight path angle target within 0.4%. We flew an entry range of 1,957 miles and we landed within less than a mile of our target. What a tremendous day.
The four astronauts also took photos of the back of the moon and captured views never before seen. Vice President J.D. Vance is leading a U.S. delegation in Saturday's peace talks with Iran in Pakistan. As NPR's Anusha Mathur reports, a primary concern is the Strait of Hormuz.
In terms of military capability, America has the clear upper hand. But Iran's control of the strait could be a sticky point of negotiations.
It has revealed this new source of leverage that the rest of the world didn't realize.
That's Matthew Koenig. He worked on the Iran portfolio at the Pentagon during the Bush, Obama, and first Trump administrations. While Trump has downplayed America's reliance on trade through the Strait, Koenig says these negotiations will set a precedent.
It's essential for the Trump administration to make sure that however this ends, it doesn't end with Iran in control of the Strait.
He says the stakes are war or peace. Anusha Mathur, NPR News, the White House.
This fiscal year, Congress has appropriated approximately $600 million to international family planning and reproductive health work. But the Trump administration has not yet spent that money. As NPR's Gabriela Emanuel reports, the repercussions are already evidence.
Prasi Mayengo is a community health worker in Uganda. She used to provide contraception to her community, birth control, condoms. But with the foreign aid cuts, she lost her job and the medications she'd provided.
It's really... challenging period. But as I'm talking over I will say that now we are not paid, but these are our neighbors, the people we share the churches.
She says she's now counseling neighbors through unintended pregnancies. The U.S. used to be the top donor for family planning. In a statement to NPR, the State Department said it is still evaluating family planning programs and funding. Gabriela Emanuel, NPR News.
The spike in gasoline prices following the U.S. attack on Iran caused a major jump in inflation in March. Inflation had been undergoing a slow decline before the war began, but consumer prices were up 3.3 percent over March 2025. That's the biggest jump in almost two years. This is NPR News. Leaders of Taiwan's ruling party have issued sharp responses to Friday's high-level meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the head of Taiwan's largest opposition party. As Ashish Valentine reports from Taipei, the meeting only intensifies a partisan divide over how to handle relations with China.
Opposition leader Zhang Liwen's visit marked the first meeting between a sitting head of the Kuomintang or KMT party and Xi Jinping in almost 10 years.
What are the implications of the U.S.-Iran peace talks on the Strait of Hormuz?
The two leaders affirmed their support for warmer ties between Taipei and Beijing. But in a statement, Taiwan's President Lai Ching-de wrote that, History tells us that compromising with authoritarian powers only sacrifices sovereignty and democracy. It does not bring freedom, nor does it bring peace. Lai urged the opposition to pass his request for $40 billion in additional defense spending to better prepare Taiwan for the threat of a potential Chinese invasion. In just over a month, Xi Jinping will host President Trump in Beijing, and may bring up the issue of US arms sales to Taiwan. For NPR News, I'm Ashish Valentine in Taipei.
As the sale of U.S.-made electric vehicles continue to slump, China EV sales are having a banner year. China's Association of Automobile Manufacturers says experts have plugged in hybrids and EVs in March rose more than 140 percent over the same time last year. Major Chinese manufacturers have been boosting sales abroad and expanding production facilities outside China.
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