"Live from NPR news, I'm Dale Wilman.
The crew of the Artemis-2 mission is safely back on Earth, after splashing down off the coast of California.
“Empires now Greenfield Boys reports that they're nearly 10 day mission around the”
moon and back, set a record for the farthest distance that humans have ventured out into space." As their moon mission drew to a close, just minutes before plunging down into Earth's atmosphere, NASA astronaut Reed Wiseman spoke with Mission Control in Houston. "We have a great view of the moon, I'll window too. Looks a little smaller than yesterday."
"Go for a ride to go back." NASA is planning another Artemis mission for next year, but not to the moon. Instead, agency officials want to test out a lunar lander in space, but close to Earth.
Both SpaceX and Blue Origin are working on lunar landing vehicles, a critical piece of hardware
for getting astronauts back to the dusty lunar surface, possibly as soon as 2028. Neil Greenfield Boys, NPR News. "Life President J.D. Vance is on his way to Pakistan for peace talks with Iran. NPR is a new shumather has more in President Trump's stated goals for the negotiations." Trump says the U.S. has already weakened Iran's military, and the top priority is making
sure the country has no nuclear weapon. But he promised the three to four moves will be reopened.
“"The straightest they call it, and I think it's going to go pretty quickly, and if it doesn't”
we'll be able to finish it off one way or the other, it's going well." Vance is headed to Pakistan with special envoy Steve Wittkov and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. As to whether they'd achieve all the goals at the talks, Trump sounded less bullish. "They've been talking for 47 years with other presidents, and we're not doing much talking." Trump made the remarks before heading to Charlottesville, Virginia, for a roundtable dinner
for the Super PAC, MAGA Inc., a new shumather, NPR News, The White House. In sumer prices rose in March by 3.3% over the same period last year. That's up 9/10 of a percent from February. It kind of is say much of the increase came from a jump in gas prices after the start of the war with the Iran.
"When gas prices jump like that, it throws a big wet blanket over the national attitude. The University of Michigan released a snapshot of consumer sentiment this morning. In Grace Wimmer, who's with the forecasting firm Oxford economics, says the index tumbleed by 11% last month. And the gloom was widespread, cutting across age, and income groups, and across political party lines.
“But certainly organizers did caution nearly all the responses were collected before this”
week's announcement of a ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran." That's NPR's Scott Horsley with a report. Officials in California have charged five people with murder in connection to an explosion in Northern California at a fireworks warehouse last July. Seven people were killed in that explosion near the small farming community of this
sparto among those charges of former Yolo County Sheriff Lieutenant. This is NPR News. A top U.N. official is raising alarms about the humanitarian situation in Haiti. Where half that population is a need of food aid after many people were displaced by gang violence.
The U.N. reporters about her recent trip to Haiti, the director of the Crisis Response Division at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, calls the situation stark. Edom was soar news says Haitians are facing, in her words, relentless violence, mass displacement, and shocking levels of gender-based violence.
"We're not in the famine thresholds yet, but we don't want to get there, so we sound the alarm at this early stage."
The U.N. is trying to raise $880 million for Haiti.
The U.S. is pledging about 10 percent of that. Michelle Kelliman and B.R. News, Washington. A judge Friday temporarily barred Arizona from enforcing its gambling loss against predictive market operators. The judge's ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed by the Trump administration.
State prosecutors had filed criminal charges against Kalshi, a predictive market operator, alleging that the company is running an illegal gambling operation in the state. Kalshi says it's financial marketplace, rather than a gambling operation. Deliberations are underway in a civil case filed by 34 states against concert promoter live nation.
The states argue that live nation and its ticketing aren't ticket master are monopolizing the industry and driving up prices to see live music. Live nation says there's more competition in the music industry than ever before.
The jury finished its first day of deliberations today.
I'm Dale Willman and PR News. This is Ira Glass. On this American life, we tell stories about when things change. Like for this guy David, who's an entire life took a sharp and expected and very unpleasant turn.
And it did take me a while to realize it's basically because the monkey pressed the button. That's right, because the monkey pressed the button.
