82 years ago today, nearly 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, launching the liberation of Europe.
We are free because they were brave. 🇺🇸
BREAKING: The U.S. announces charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro over 1996 shootdown of an exile group's planes. https://t.co/y1VMpGzmjO
The Department of Justice is dropping its criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro says. https://t.co/QN2nEr6JSz
Hungary’s next leader Peter Magyar says he won’t stand in the way of Ukraine receiving a €90 billion loan from the EU that was blocked by the outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orban https://t.co/aPczFNKYJt
BREAKING: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat to Peter Magyar after "painful" election result, ending 16 years in power. https://t.co/y35vYF2Wf1
Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen received a thunderous welcome home after a trip to the moon and back that set a record for deep space travel and captured views of the lunar far side. Read more here: https://t.co/q94Z5kCGrx
Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶
The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.
LIVE: They are coming home.
Watch as the Artemis II crew returns to Earth, splashing down at around 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11). https://t.co/n3vZE2rcFv
I urge everyone to accompany this moment of delicate diplomacy with prayer, in hopes that a willingness to dialogue may become the means to resolve other conflict situations in the world as well. #PrayTogether#Peace
Artemis II has set a new record for the most distant humans have ever traveled from Earth.
On Monday, April 6, the spacecraft ventured 4,700 miles beyond the Moon’s far side, surpassing a mark set by Apollo 13 in 1970, when astronauts flew 158 miles behind the lunar surface.
LIVE: Watch with us as the Artemis II astronauts make their closest approach to the Moon, traveling farther from Earth than ever before. https://t.co/Zpy7GdTqA8