Artemis II is set to launch into space next week. Meet the astronauts’ rescue crew

The four-person crew of Artemis II is at Kennedy Space Center in Florida preparing to lift off and travel to the moon as early as Wednesday — and getting ready for any hurdles space may throw at them.  The astronauts’ round-trip space journey will cover nearly half a million miles over nine days. They will … Read more

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The Emmy Award-winning “CBS News Sunday Morning” is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET.  “Sunday Morning” also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here.)  Hosted by Jane Pauley.  COVER STORY: Sister recounts relentless fight to free sibling held captive in Iraq for 903 daysPrinceton University doctoral student … Read more

Costa Rica to accept 25 ‘third country’ deportees from US every week

SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica — Costa Rica said Thursday that it would accept 25 migrants deported from the United States per week as part of an agreement to help the Trump administration’s latest policy of deporting immigrants to “third countries.” The Central American nation joins a growing number of countries across Africa and the Americas … Read more

Trump extends pause on Iranian energy plant strikes by more than a week

Trump extends pause on Iranian energy plant strikes by more than a week – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump on Thursday said he’s extending a pause on striking Iranian energy plants by more than a week. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe reports. Source link

The Hanwha Philly shipyard delivers around 1 ship a year. A South Korean Hanwha shipyard delivers 1 a week.

With the U.S. military on high alert amid the Iran war, there’s a national security crisis closer to home: the state of the American shipbuilding industry.  The nation’s naval shipbuilding program is bloated and slow, and commercial shipbuilding is near non-existent. Hanwha, which owns one of the only U.S. shipyards still building large commercial cargo … Read more

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says he’s had “several conversations this week” with Trump

After President Trump called NATO a “paper tiger without the U.S.,” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that the alliance has had “several conversations this week” with Mr. Trump and the “good news” is that 22 nations, including many in NATO, have since “come together.” Source link

Cuba suffers second nationwide power outage in less than a week

Cuba on Saturday suffered its second nationwide power outage in less than a week, according to officials. The Ministry of Energy and Mines said on X that another “total disconnection of the National Electric System has occurred. Protocols for restoration are already beginning to be implemented.” On Monday, officials in Cuba reported an island-wide blackout that affected … Read more

A wave of executions is feared in Iran after 3 young men were hanged this week

BEIRUT — A 19-year-old star wrestler and two other young men were hanged in Iran this week, raising alarm among rights groups that a wave of executions may be underway as authorities facing relentless attacks from the U.S. and Israel seek to squelch public dissent. The three men are the first to be executed from … Read more