Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Windsor, Johnston.
Two U.S. military planes were shot down in separate incidents on Friday, escalating tensions
“and the ongoing conflict with Iran, and PR's Tom Bowman reports to American crew members”
were rescued, but another remains missing. Officials are telling me the F-15 was shot down over Southwest Iran, not sure what took it out. Now the aircraft carries a pilot in a weapons officer, we're also not sure which one
was rescued, and also NPR just confirmed a New York Times report that a second U.S.
aircraft was shot down a ten-worthog somewhere near the straight-of-horror moves. That pilot was rescued. And the Arts Tom Bowman, meanwhile Israel, says it's carried out a new series of attacks on key infrastructure in Tehran. The Artemis II astronauts are now more than 130,000 miles away from Earth, and PR's
now Greenfield Boys reports the crew members are heading toward the moon for the first lunar fly-by in over 50 years.
“With the Orion spacecraft now on the trajectory that will take it around the moon and”
back, the crew has more time to rest.
The four astronauts finally got to talk to their families back on the ground, and they've
been taking pictures. Howard Hughes is the Orion Program Manager at NASA. He says his favorite photo so far shows the inside of the spacecraft and one of its windows. It's just awesome to see from our spaceship. Out the window, our beautiful home planet, there Earth.
The astronauts have plenty of cameras on board, so there's more pictures to come, especially during their closest approach to the moon on Monday. The L Greenfield Boys and PR News, a shift seems to be underway in how the Federal Government carries out immigration enforcement, and PR's Meg Anderson reports Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullins says he wants eyes to work more closely with local police.
Mullins comments point to a federal program that deputizes local police to act as ice officers. It has exploded in growth during President Trump's second term.
In Florida and Texas in particular, more than 40 million people live in places where local
police have signed on. Immigrant rights groups say the program creates situations where minor traffic stops quickly turn into immigration arrests. And when local police do the work, they say it makes immigration enforcement more hidden. Kristen Eder is with the Texas Immigration Law Council detention, mass deportation, but
do it in a way so that the public doesn't think it's happening anymore. In a statement to NPR, a DHS spokesperson says that a department has "supercharged" its efforts to work with local police, Meg Anderson and beer news. This is NPR. A California, raw milk producer, has issued a recall for several products under pressure
from federal officials. The FDA says multiple cases of e-coli have been linked to the company. Raw farms says it's voluntarily recalling more than a half a dozen varieties of raw milk cheddar, after previously resisting requests for a recall. The first game of the national semi-finals of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament will
feature the Yukon Huskies after their dramatic last-second win against Duke last Sunday. Right, Eklon has a preview of the game. Yukon Freshman Brail and Mullins is back in his home state after hitting the game winning shot against Duke, but says the Huskies and their semi-final game against Illinois can't rest on their laurels.
We have flipped the page and just like focus on Illinois.
“So yeah, I mean the last couple days, I think that's been the mindset, just trying to forget”
about the game on Sunday, because I mean it wasn't the national championship game. In the second semi-final, two number-one seeds will square off, Arizona against Michigan. Arizona Wildcat's head coach Tommy Lloyd in his fifth season with the team announced that he has agreed to terms on a new contract. For NPR News, I'm Greg Eklon in Indianapolis.
Women's College Basketball is set for its national championship game. South Carolina will take on UCLA on Sunday afternoon after winning their semi-finals. Final matches. I'm Windsor-Johnston and PR News in Washington.
