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A lunar lander has completed its two-week mission and sent spectacular sunset images as a “final goodbye” back to Earth. The Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander was launched by Firefly Aerospace in mid-January and landed on the moon on March 2. It was the first successful commercial moon landing. The lander delivered 10 NASA
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Kyiv, Ukraine — President Trump is speaking with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Wednesday, sources familiar with the planned call said, after Russia launched a series of drone strikes that struck civilian areas overnight and damaged a hospital in Ukraine. That attack came just ours after a phone call between Mr. Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked enforcement of a new Defense Department policy barring transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes granted a request for a preliminary injunction sought by transgender active-duty service members and transgender people who are in the process of enlisting. The judge’s order
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Who would steal a $6M gold toilet? Who would steal a $6M gold toilet? 00:36 A thief who swiped a golden toilet from an English palace was convicted Tuesday along with an accomplice who helped cash in on the spoils of the 18-carat work of art insured for more than $6 million. Michael Jones had
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An 81-year-old French hunter went on trial on Tuesday, accused of killing an endangered female bear that had attacked him in the Pyrenees. The brown bear is a protected species in the mountain range, which separates France and Spain. Andre Rives was boar-hunting when a female bear nicknamed Caramelles attacked him. On November 20, 2021,
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Istanbul — Turkish police on Wednesday arrested Istanbul’s mayor — a popular opposition leader and key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — and several other prominent figures as part of investigations into alleged corruption and terror links. It was a dramatic escalation in an ongoing crackdown on the opposition and dissenting voices in Turkey. The
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will step up its testing for heavy metals in infant formula and review nutrients required in the products used to feed millions of babies, the agency and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on Tuesday. “The FDA will use all resources and authorities at its disposal
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Masked and heavily armed men have circulated a video denouncing people searching for missing relatives at the site of what authorities said was a cartel training camp in the western Mexican state of Jalisco. In a video circulating Monday night, a man, flanked by others standing in formation, read a statement identifying them as members of
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Washington — The Trump administration on Tuesday evening released tens of thousands of pages of government documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, weeks after President Trump ordered government agencies to make their JFK files public. The documents were uploaded by the National Archives and Records Administration, the agency responsible for
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has promoted two agents with the Internal Revenue Service who said they faced retaliation after blowing the whistle to Congress and speaking out to CBS News about political interference into their investigation of Hunter Biden’s tax crimes. IRS special agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler were assigned to Bessent’s office as
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