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The Artemis 2 crew is safely back on Earth after a more than nine-day journey around the moon and back. His central Florida Public Media's Brandon Bern reports, their spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Southwest of San Diego. The crew's Orion spacecraft made the 13-and-a-half-minute journey through the atmosphere,
reaching a top speed of around 33 times the speed of sound and slowing to just around 19 miles per hour at Splashdown. The four astronauts have traveled more than 694,000 miles since launching from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. It was the first time humans ventured to the moon in more than 50 years.
The mission was a critical flight of Orion, carrying crew for the first time, and testing
“key systems like the life support propulsion and the heat shield.”
NASA will take this data and use it for future astronaut missions with a goal to land humans on the moon by 2028. Our friend, Bjorn News, I'm Brendan Barron in Orlando. Iran's team of negotiators have arrived in Pakistan for talks there Saturday with Vice President J.D. Vance.
As MPRs, Iowa Trialway reports, the two sides are meeting after President Trump back down from threats to bomb Iran's power plants, and instead agreed to a two-week ceasefire. Pakistan's state TV showed Iran's Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Behrer-Ralibaf, and Foreign Minister Abbas Arahti being welcomed on the tarmac in Islamabad by senior Pakistani officials. The Iranian team will be holding talks with Vance, whose traveling with special envoy Steve
Whitkov and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. Trump says his top priorities now are ensuring Iran has no nuclear weapon and that the state of her moves opens for shipping. Iran is demanding an end to Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
“Israel's attacks on the Iran-backed Hezbollah group and civilian areas of Behru killed more”
than 350 people Wednesday according to Lebanon's health ministry, threatening the talks in Pakistan. It doesn't more have been killed since. I up at Trialway and Pyrenees, Dubai. President Trump says he knew his wife wanted to address rumors about the late sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein this week, but his MPR's Frank Ordonia's reports. The President said he did not know what she would say before her public remarks.
First Lady Melania Trump made a rare and surprising public statement denying ties to Epstein
and calling on Congress to allow victims to testify. Her name appears in the latest trunch of documents published at the end of January. In an interview with the New York Times, Trump said it didn't bother him, and he quote "thought she had a right to talk about it." Trump said his wife was particularly upset about theories that Epstein introduced her to
the future president.
“During her own early remarks, the first lady said she met Trump at a party and did not”
encounter Epstein until two years later, at an event she attended with Trump. No. Ordonia and Pyrenees, the White House. And you're listening to NPR news. Five people have been charged with murder in connection to a massive explosion last July
at a fireworks warehouse in Northern California. Seven people were killed in the blast, among those said to be responsible for the explosion is a former Yodo County Sheriff Lieutenant. The Trump administration is acknowledging an air made in the recent social media video and led her to New York's democratic governor accusing the state of Medicaid fraud.
Buffalo Toronto Public Media is Emily Watkins, past more. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services told the Associated Press and Administrator
Mammoth as his claim that roughly 5 million New Yorkers received personal care services
was an error. The actual number is a tenth of that, about 450,000 people. It's without explanation and without apology. Michael Kanukin from the Think Tank Fiscal Policy Institute was first to show that number was likely incorrect.
CMS didn't explain their initial estimate. New York has attempted to tighten personal care services, which help with basics, like bathing and meal preparation. By increasing eligibility requirements and restructuring, it's largest home care program. For NPR news, I'm Emily Watkins and Buffalo.
For the first time in at least two decades, the Procedure Black players, a major league baseball on opening day rosters, has increased for two consecutive years. The league says 6.8% of players are Black this year. That's up from 6.2% of the start of the 20-25 season in 1991, the number of Black players was 18%.
I'm Dale Wilman and PR news. This is Ira Goss. 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 term, 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.
