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A second crew member from a U.S. fighter jet shot down over Iran has been rescued,
and opposed on social media last night President Trump said the airman was safe. Officials say the rescue was carried out by American and Israeli forces in a complex operation a day after the plane was brought down by Iranian fire.
“Tired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jason Harris says survival training likely played a key role.”
"They're trained for how to handle things once you hit the ground and figure out what is necessary to ensure that you can evade getting captured if you happen to be an enemy territory." " Officials say both crew members are now safely out of Iran. President Trump has given Iran 48 hours to open the straight of more moves or reach a peace agreement. If Nati says to Iran will face a new round of military strikes targeting its energy infrastructure,
Trump has extended the deadline several times as diplomatic talks continued.
Russia says it's continuing to evacuate its staff from Iran's lone operational nuclear power plant amid ongoing U.S. Israeli attacks, the latest exit comes as to Iran said its nuclear facility had come under attack, killing in Iranian security guard, and PR's Charles Mains reports from Moscow." The head of Russia's nuclear energy agency, Ross Adams, Alexey Likachov, said nearly 200 Russian
“workers departed the Bush Air Nuclear Facility by bus minutes before the plant was hit.”
And we're now on route out of Iran. Likachov, who's been slowly pulling his staff of 700 Russian workers from the nuclear plant since the U.S. is really a tax began over a month ago, suggested a full withdrawal was now imminent. Iran has accused the U.S. in Israel for repeatedly targeting Bush Air, though there have
been no registered spikes in radiation levels, the United Nations in a national atomic energy agency, says it's deeply concerned over continued fighting near the facility. Charles Mains and PR News, Moscow. "NASA is investigating the source of a mysterious smell in the Artemis II spacecraft that's on a mission to carry four astronauts toward the moon, and PR's now Greenfield-Boys reports
officials say the odor doesn't seem worrisome."
“The astronauts reported sniffing a dusty burning smell, like the kind that sometimes comes”
from an old electric heater. It seems to come from the hygiene bay, also known as the toilet in their Orion spacecraft. Debbie Korth is the Orion Deputy Program Manager at NASA. She says gas analyzers and other onboard sensors indicate that everything is fine. "So we don't know exactly yet.
We're still troubleshooting. We're now becoming from the teams are looking at some data we have in the ground with that same similar type smell had been reported." She said overall, the spacecraft is operating really well, and teams are only working on little things like this mystery smell as the astronauts venture ever closer to the moon.
Now Greenfield-Boys and PR News. This is NPR. A federal judge has blocked a Trump administration effort to collect data aimed at determining whether colleges are considering race and admissions. The preliminary injunction follows a lawsuit filed last month by a coalition of 17 democratic
attorneys general. President Trump ordered the policy after raising concerns that schools were using essays and other factors as proxies for race. The states argue the data collection threatens student privacy and could lead to baseless investigations of colleges and universities.
Thousands of Christian faithful are packing St. Peter Square on this Easter Sunday. NPR's Jason D'Aroads reports, Pope Leo, presided over Easter vigil at the Vatican Saturday night.
His first since becoming head of the Catholic Church.
Dozens of cardinals, bishops, and priests persist into a darkened St. Peter's Basilica to usher in the ancient service known as the Great Easter Vigil. The light of Christ sang the canter, followed by the congregations reply, "Thanks, Peter God." Easter comes this year into a world torn by wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, and at
a time of great political strife in the US, yet Christians around the world celebrate as they have for millennium. The resurrection of Christ, as the triumph of light over darkness, peace over violence, life over death, Jason D'Aroads, NPR News.
