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This feed will provide continuous coverage of Artemis II mission activities with live commentary, beginning with tanking of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and concluding with the recovery of the Orion Integrity spacecraft after splashdown. Live coverage of Artemis II's launch and lunar flyby, as well as daily mission briefings, will also stream on this feed. These events will additionally be carried as standalone streams on NASA's YouTube channel and elsewhere. Four astronauts — three from NASA and one from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) — make up the Artemis II crew: - NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander - NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot - NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist - Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist After launching into space atop SLS, the crew will journey around the Moon and back in their Orion spacecraft on an approx...

By Tyler Durden Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times  (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump’s speech in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, was not an official act and is thus not covered by immunity , a federal judge said in a March 31 decision. Judge Amit P. Mehta was appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on December 22, 2014.  Born in Patan, India. “ President Trump has not shown that the Speech reasonably can be understood as falling within the outer perimeter of his Presidential duties ,” U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta  ruled . Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, 2021, was given to a rally at The Ellipse, about 1 mile from the U.S. Capitol. Lawmakers and others sued Trump, claiming his speech incited the crowd to go to the Capitol and riot. Trump had sought a dismissal of the lawsuits, arguing he is entitled to immunity for official acts as president and that the speech was an official act. Supreme Court justices  ruled  ...

By Nick Arama Operation Epic Fury has been a real test of our European allies, and they largely failed it.  If they can't even let us use our shared bases in their countries or go through their airspace to deal with a terrorist country that has hurt the whole world, what are they about? As Secretary of State, Marco Rubio said, an alliance can't be a "one-way street." Then Trump also scolded them, saying maybe we should just leave and let them figure the Strait out. Both Rubio and Trump  indicated  that the NATO relationship would have to be re-examined.  That's resulted in a scramble from the allies, and even from non-allies, to say that something has to be done to keep the Strait clear. Suddenly, if the U.S. says they might not be there, they realize that they have some responsibility for themselves.  The European Union Council President, António Costa, posted a statement against Iran's actions in the Strait and called for action to keep it open. You even...

By Catherine Salgado American forces have reached 12,000 combat flights in Operation Epic Fury, the joint military action with Israel against the terrorist Iranian regime. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has been issuing almost daily updates on its progress in the Iran operation. The United States and Israel have hit thousands of targets in Iran between them. U.S. Navy fighter jets prepare for a combat flight during Operation Epic Fury. To date, U.S. forces have flown over 12,000 combat flights directly supporting Operation Epic Fury. pic.twitter.com/QKmUN2I8Ny — U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) April 1, 2026 What U.S. and Israeli forces have not done, in stark contrast to the Iranian regime, is deliberately target civilians. As the hysteria over the girls’ school (likely hit by a misfired Iranian missile) that was just outside an Iranian jihadi headquarters finally dies down, leftist media that wants to see America fail has a new piece of propaganda which the American military den...

By Sister Toldjah The Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) affliction among Democrats has been well-documented at this site and others going way back to his first term in office. Indeed, not a day goes by that we don't see it on display in some form or another, whether it's in the form of a speech on the House floor, a media interview, or a post on social media. Some of the more notable instances that come to mind are Democrat Rep. Al Green's (TX-09) unhinged  outbursts  during Trump's addresses to Congress, two of which have gotten him  escorted  off the floor, after which Green proceeded to portray himself as the victim. Another recent instance involves New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), whose TDS actually put lives in the Empire State at risk when she refused the offer of help from then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem amid forecasts of a brutal winter storm for much of the country in late January, as RedState reported. "Secretary Noem offered assistance to New York ahead...

By Tim O'Brien As Pope Leo XIV continues to single out President Donald Trump, and apparently only Trump, as the cause of so much war and strife in the world, one of his own archbishops is pleading with Trump to provide Nigerian Christians with intelligence and weapons to help ensure their very survival. According to the Catholic news organization  EWTN , Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama has openly asked the United States for its help in countering Islamic terrorism in Nigeria.   The archbishop “has requested intelligence assets and weaponry from U.S. President Donald Trump to combat violence in the country,” the news site reported. It added that Kaigama delivered his remarks on March 20 at a press briefing in Madrid, “where the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) presented the campaign ‘May Persecution Not Have the Last Word: Heal Nigeria.’”  The purpose of the campaign is to “strengthen faith, heal the trauma caused by violence, and protect the per...

By Bonchie The divide between the United States and the other major NATO members continues to widen. Despite not being asked to directly participate in the conflict against Iran, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Spain, among others, have put up roadblocks, repeatedly shifting on something as simple as base usage, and even denying the use of airspace for cargo transit.  As I said in my previous write-up on the matter, there is no point in being in such a one-sided, self-serving alliance. France, the United Kingdom, and Germany have been asked to do very little in support of this mission. For the most part, the request has simply been for them not to get in the way. This constitutes getting in the way, and it's a betrayal that should not go unchecked.  Keep in mind, it was the French who gave the Islamist extremists refuge during Iran's 1979 revolution. They then  flew  the Ayatollah into the country to take power. Aside from the regime itself, no one else ...

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple on April 1, 1976, in Jobs' parents' Cupertino, Calif., home. By Marcus Williams Two and a half billion people own at least one Apple product right now. That single number, larger than China's entire population, is the full measure of a company that started with two strangers talking on a sidewalk near Cupertino, California, in 1971, and a device its own inventor described as little more than a circuit board. A Sidewalk Meeting and a Circuit Board Steve Wozniak was an engineering prodigy. Steve Jobs was, by most accounts, a charismatic, rebellious high-schooler. Their 1971 meeting near Cupertino set in motion one of the most consequential partnerships in the history of technology. Four years later, in 1975, when virtually no one had ever seen a personal computer, Wozniak built one. It was, by his own account, little more than a circuit board. Jobs saw something else: a product someone might actually pay for. "And who...

On Wednesday, if the Florida weather cooperates, four astronauts will lift off on a journey considered the next step toward our return to the moon after more than 50 years.     By Michael Swartz You may recall that in 2022, Artemis I was an unmanned mission to the moon, a shakedown cruise of sorts for a NASA program that was finally putting into motion an announcement President George W. Bush had made in 2004. Our space program would shift its focus from the space shuttle program to completing the International Space Station and eventually returning to the moon as a step toward Mars, with Artemis II as a key milestone by returning humans to a lunar orbit around its far side. Artemis II should launch tomorrow. It’s not exactly “ Project Hail Mary ,” but it’s exciting, nonetheless. “It’s really the same program, with a little tweaking along the way, that we are trying to execute 22 years later,”  said  John Logsdon, a space policy historian and professor emeritus at Ge...

By Sarah Anderson The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights  came out with a statement  on Tuesday, slamming El Salvador for some recent changes it made to its laws. Here's what it had to say:   We urge the authorities of El Salvador to promptly review the worrying constitutional and legal changes adopted last week, which provide for life imprisonment for children as young as 12, in contradiction with international human rights standards. Under these provisions, cases of children sentenced to life imprisonment will generally be reviewed only after they have served 25 years of their sentence. This approach contravenes the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which requires that children in conflict with the law be treated in a manner that prioritizes their rehabilitation and reintegration, and that deprivation of liberty be used only as a last resort and for the shortest possible period. Prolonged detention is deeply harmful to children, violates sev...