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Artemis II kicks off trip around the moon

HOUSTON (AP) — With the moon now filling their windows, the Artemis II astronauts kicked off their lunar flyby Monday, taking in magnificent views of the far side never before witnessed while setting a new distance record for humanity. The six-hour flyby is the highlight of NASA’s first return to the moon since the Apollo era with three Americans and one Canadian — a step toward landing boot prints near the moon’s south pole in just two years. First came a prize — and bragging rights — for Artemis II. Less than an hour before kicking off the fly-around and intense lunar ...

Iowa State star Crooks joins transfer portal

(AP) — Audi Crooks is one of nine Iowa State players who officially entered the NCAA transfer portal Monday in the first 12 hours it was open. The nation’s second-leading scorer is one of more than 1,100 Division I women’s basketball players who entered the portal after it opened just after midnight, according to an Associated Press review of the portal. In January, the NCAA approved moving the portal’s opening to the day after the national championship game for a 15-day window. It didn’t take long for players to enter. The portal used to be open after the second round of ...

NHL’s East playoff race shaken up as the Flyers rise, Red Wings fall and Islanders fire their coach

NEW YORK (AP) — Rick Tocchet understood the stakes, so the Philadelphia coach didn’t want to make his players nervous before stepping onto the ice. “They know,” Tocchet said. “They see the standings.” The standings in the Eastern Conference look a lot different than they did in late March. For one thing, Tocchet’s Flyers have crashed the party and are in a playoff spot for the first time since Jan. 12. Way ahead of them, the Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins and Montreal Canadiens have solidified their positions, while the Detroit Red Wings have dropped from what was ...

Steve Bannon wins Supreme Court order

WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, on Monday won a Supreme Court order that is expected to lead to the dismissal of his criminal conviction for refusing to testify to Congress. Prodded by the Trump administration, the justices threw out an appellate ruling upholding Bannon’s conviction for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by a mob of Trump supporters on the U.S. Capitol. The move frees a trial judge to act on the Republican administration’s pending request to dismiss Bannon’s ...

U.S. stocks and oil prices flip-flop on Monday

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market is making only hesitant moves Monday, while oil prices are flip-flopping ahead of a deadline that President Donald Trump has set to bomb Iranian power plants. The S&P 500 rose 0.4%, coming off its first winning week in the last six. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 109 points, or 0.2%, with an hour remaining in trading, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.5% higher. Oil prices likewise seesawed between gains and losses amid continued uncertainty about what will happen in the war with Iran and how long it will slow the global flow of oil and ...

It’s time for Artemis II to break Apollo 13’s distance record. What to know about the moon flyby

HOUSTON (AP) — The Artemis II astronauts are already the champions of a fresh new era of lunar exploration. Now it’s time to set a new distance record. Launched last week on humanity’s first trip to the moon since 1972, the three Americans and one Canadian are chasing after Apollo 13’s maximum range from Earth. That will make them our planet’s farthest emissaries as they swing around the moon without stopping on Monday and then hightail it back home. Their roughly six-hour lunar flyby promises views of the moon’s far side that were too dark or too difficult to see by the 24 ...