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"Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.

the first human moon mission in more than half a century. The Artemis II spacecraft and its

four-person crew splashed down safely Friday evening off the coast of California.

As NPR has now greenfield voice reports, a recovery ship, the USS John P. Murtha, was waiting nearby." NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who went to space twice as a private astronaut, was on the ship with workers from the US Navy and NASA. "And what do you guys think we just brought some astronauts back from the moon, huh?"

"It was the first time that the US Navy and NASA had teamed up for a spacecraft recovery since the end of the Apollo lunar program in 1972." "For a member of number three now, Alex." Meanwhile, in Houston flight controllers crowded into mission control, cheering and clapping as a video feed showed the astronauts emerging from the capsule, as it floated in

the Pacific, nail-greenfield voice and PR news. According to Iranian media, the head of Iran's forensic medical agency says that more than 3,000 people have been killed so far in the war. The Iranian Red Crescent has also released some figures on the numbers of damage to civilian facilities.

And Paris D provides has more from Von Turkey."

The head of Iran's forensic medical agency says the country's death toll in the war over the past six weeks has surpassed 3,000. The media outlets "apposed" not to the add-on-e as saying that some 40% of the bodies are an agentifiable. And this casualty figure differs from what human rights groups have estimated.

They put the number of civilian deaths at somewhere between 1,000 and 1,700 and recent

days, and they've also estimated that over 6,000 military and revolutionary guard members

have been killed. Additionally, 857 schools, 32 universities, and 338 hospitals were damaged or destroyed by air strikes, according to the Iranian Red Crescent. Deep eyebrows and PR news, Von Turkey." U.S. and Iranian negotiators mean while they're heading to Pakistan for high-level talks

with Iranian officials, those talks were expected to begin on Saturday. A wartime surge in energy prices caused a spike in inflation last month, then Pierre Scott

Horzley reports on the latest figures from the Labor Department.

Consumer prices in March were up 3.3 percent from a year ago. That's the biggest annual increase in almost two years. The prices jumped nine-tenths of a percent between February and March, with a spike in gasoline prices accounting for nearly three-quarters of that increase. Gas prices have jumped by more than $1 a dollar a gallon since the U.S. and Israel launched

their war on Iran. Von prices have remained high this week, despite the tentative ceasefire. Higher prices for jet fuel also pushed up prices for airline tickets last month, while grocery prices were down.

Stripping out volatile food and energy prices, so-called core inflation in March was 2.6 percent

a rate that's likely to make the Federal Reserve cautious about any further cuts in interest rates. Scott Horzley and Pierre News, Washington. And you're listening to NPR News. Worldwide, roughly a quarter of all mammals are hunted, trapped, bought or sold as part

of the wildlife trade, and as MPR's Jonathan Lambert reports this trade is a major route for animal diseases to jump into humans. Scientists have traced many human diseases to contact with wild animals. Ebola outbreaks can be sparked by interacting with bats, HIV likely jumped to humans through a hunted primate, and studies suggest COVID-19 came from a live animal market, where lots

of species were kept in close quarters. But these anecdotal examples don't say much about how risky trading wildlife is, generally. New research in the journal science suggests very.

It found 41 percent of traded mammals shared at least one pathogen with humans, while just

6 percent of non-traded ones did. And the longer humans have been trading animals, the more viruses they share. For every decade in the wildlife trade, an additional new pathogen jumps to humans. Jonathan Lambert and PR News. The FAA says anti-drawn lasers can now be used along the U.S. southern border, earlier this

year, the agency had shut down airspace and some parts of Texas after the Pentagon deployed the lasers. Now the FAA and Pentagon have signed an agreement that outlines the safety precautions that will be employed when the lasers are used to protect travelers. Rory McElroy has turned on the heat at the PGA Master's Tournament underway in Augusta

of the defending champion birdied six of the last seven holes on Friday to finish the day with a tournament best 65. He also set a master's record for the largest 36 whole lead sitting six strokes ahead of Sam Burns and Patrick Reed heading into Saturday's penultimate round. I'm Dale Wilman and PR News.

Want to understand the reason and the meanings of the narratives that let us hear and maybe had a head them off at the past? That's on the media specialty. I'm Brook Gladstone host of WNYC's On the Media, listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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