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Second Crew Member Rescued |
The US rescued the second of two crew members from a downed F-15E aircraft in Iran, officials revealed yesterday. Both were evacuated with non-life-threatening injuries.
The mission to rescue the second airman involved subterfuge, US officials say. The crewman was in Iran for an estimated 36 hours before he was rescued, with the CIA launching a deception campaign to distract Iranian forces. The US reportedly misled Iranians by suggesting the crew member was found and was being evacuated by ground. Meanwhile, US forces searched for and extracted the airman from a mountain crevice. The campaign evaded what could have been a hostage situation; Tehran had reportedly offered the equivalent of $60K for the aviators’ capture.
The mission comes ahead of today’s deadline set by President Donald Trump for Iranians to make a deal or the US would target civilian infrastructure. Trump will hold a news conference today at 1 pm ET (watch here). |
No. 1 UCLA won the women’s college basketball championship last night, entering the finals as underdogs but dominating No. 1 South Carolina, 79-51. The victory caps a 37-1 season for the Lady Bruins, whose only loss came against Texas in late November.
UCLA never trailed in either of its Final Four games, and the win comes a year after it entered the 2025 tournament as the title favorites but lost by 34 points in the semifinals. It's the first NCAA title for the program and comes 15 years into the tenure of coach Cori Close, who was mentored by legendary UCLA men’s coach John Wooden for more than a decade. Watch the tearful trophy presentation here.
The men's side wraps up tonight (8:50 pm ET, CBS), with No. 1 Michigan taking on No. 2 Connecticut. The Wolverines enter as 6.5-point favorites; watch top highlights from the Final Four games here. |
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🫶 Humankind: Three-legged dog and cat become inseparable after surgery, and are adopted together by Maryland couple. |
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Cambodia unveiled the world’s first statue honoring a landmine-detecting rat (w/photo) Friday. Magawa the rat lived to 8 years old and identified more than 100 landmines and other explosives from 2016 to 2021.
There are more than 100 African pouched rats deployed in landmine detection operations across the world. To identify mines, the rats are trained to sniff out explosive compounds like trinitrotoluene, or TNT. (The rats are not heavy enough to trigger detonation.) In Cambodia, up to 6 million landmines remain undiscovered, most planted during three decades of conflict, from the Vietnam War era through Cambodia's civil war. Since 1979, roughly 20,000 people have been killed in Cambodia, and roughly 40,000 wounded as a result of the mines.
Magawa cleared more than 1.5 million square feet of land and was capable of searching a tennis court-sized area within 20 minutes (compared to four days by a human). Learn about the African pouched rat’s ability to detect tuberculosis here. |
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> "Super Mario Galaxy Movie" earns $370.7M at the global box office in its opening weekend, best debut since the third installment of "Avatar" in December (More) |
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> Artemis II crew to set record for farthest distance from Earth traveled by humans; will exceed 252,000 miles from the planet as the spacecraft hooks around the far side of the moon today (More) | See real-time tracker of mission and trajectory (More, w/audio) |
> White House FY27 budget request includes topline cuts to National Science Foundation (-55%), NASA (-23%), National Institutes of Health (-12%), among others (More) | Congress sets spending levels, White House request is viewed as a recommendation; see how the process works (More) |
> Uranus and Neptune may contain quasi-one-dimensional carbon hydride, study suggests; results shed light on how heat and electricity may flow through the interior of icy planets (More) |
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> Average US gas price rises above $4.10 per gallon as oil markets wait on reported ceasefire talks between the US and Iran; see state-by-state breakdown at the pump (More) |
> Famed incubator Y Combinator drops AI-powered compliance startup Delve amid accusations it created false security and privacy reports (More) |
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> Pope Leo XIV delivers first Easter sermon of his pontificate, calls for peace in a message seen as critical of the Iran war (More) |
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