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President Trump said he will speak to the crew of NASA's Artemis II tonight after their record-setting lunar loop. The Orion spacecraft is returning to Earth with a Pacific splashdown planned Friday.

Live cameras across the U.S. are tracking bald eagle nests; operators reported a female eagle's death in Florida and multiple nests have produced new hatchlings this spring.

Nasa's Artemis II crew took questions from quarantine in a live-streamed session; the four-person team includes commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and the publisher noted no regular text updates would be provided.

Researchers at Technion reported that optical phase singularities—zero-amplitude vortices in polaritons—were observed moving with superluminal phase velocities in a slowed-light hexagonal boron nitride sample, and the team published the results in Nature.

After the death of education influencer Zhang Xuefeng, tens of thousands attended his memorial and posts about him drew billions of views; some related content was later censored on Chinese social media.

Friends of Big Bear reported that bald eagles Jackie and Shadow hatched two chicks within 48 hours, observed on the Big Bear Valley Eagle Cam, and said both chicks are doing well.

The Artemis II crew reported first views of the lunar far side from the Orion capsule as they travel toward a planned lunar flyby, and the mission will return to Earth with a scheduled splashdown on Friday.

A Connecticut man was arrested on charges related to an alleged sexual assault of his 12-year-old stepdaughter, who was found dead; the girl's mother says she was unaware of the allegations. The man is held on $1 million bond and is scheduled to be arraigned Monday.

President Donald Trump announced that a U.S. Air Force colonel shot down over southwestern Iran was located and evacuated after more than 24 hours hiding in a mountain crevice, and U.S. officials said he was injured but expected to recover.

Jeremy Hansen, Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch held a live question-and-answer from NASA's Orion about four days into the 10-day Artemis II mission, taking questions submitted by Canadian children; the crew is reported to be more than halfway to the moon and will perform a lunar flyby on Day 6.

Artemis II's four-person Orion crew is en route to the moon on a 10-day mission and has sent back photographs that reports say include the first images of Earth since December 1972.

A Russian drone strike on a market in Nikopol killed five people and injured at least 19, regional officials said. Ukrainian authorities reported shooting down most incoming drones overnight.

Tim Cook rang the Nasdaq opening bell at Apple Park the day before Apple's 50th birthday, and the company is confronting major challenges as the technology industry shifts toward artificial intelligence.

President Trump signed an executive order aimed at tightening eligibility, transfer rules and cost controls in college sports and warned that schools that do not comply could lose federal grants; federal agencies were asked to review compliance and Congress was urged to act.

A Friends of Big Bear Valley livestream shows one of Jackie and Shadow’s eggs cracking and nest chirps on April 2, indicating a chick may begin hatching; a second egg is expected to hatch soon.

NASA released the first photos taken aboard the Artemis II Orion capsule showing views of Earth; mission commander Reid Wiseman took them with a tablet and the crew described the scenes during a Day 2 downlink.

As The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is released, Nintendo spotlights Rosalina—a character introduced in 2007 with a notable maternal backstory—and Princess Peach's role has shifted toward a more active leader since 2023.

Microsoft plans to invest $10 billion in Japan over four years to develop AI infrastructure and strengthen cybersecurity, working with partners including SoftBank and Sakura Internet and aiming to train one million engineers by 2030.

NASA said Artemis II will continue its planned 10-day lunar flyby after Mission Control helped fix a malfunctioning $30 million toilet and restored a brief loss of communications following launch.

OpenAI said it has acquired TBPN, and hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays said the daily 2:00 p.m. ET livestream will continue; the deal follows OpenAI's recent $122 billion funding round and $852 billion post-money valuation.

A Reddit slideshow showed Höd, an eyeless cat who spent years moving between shelters and now appears to be thriving in a new home; the post reportedly earned about 21,000 upvotes.

IBM announced a strategic collaboration with Arm to develop dual‑architecture hardware aimed at supporting AI and data‑intensive enterprise workloads, and the companies said the work will focus on virtualization, enterprise security and long‑term ecosystem growth.

NASA's Artemis II launched a four-astronaut crew from Kennedy Space Center for a roughly 10-day flight to circumnavigate the moon, serving as a test mission and a pathfinder for a planned Artemis III lunar landing.

Newsweek reports that AI is compressing workflows and shifting human roles from production toward judgment, with General Motors cited as an example where designers use AI to move from execution to directing systems. The newsletter also highlights upcoming discussions and pilots across health care, services and logistics.

President Trump signed an executive order expanding federal authority over mail-in voting and proposing to withhold federal funds from noncompliant states; state election officials and legal experts have called the directive legally invalid and several have pledged lawsuits.

Australia's National Film and Sound Archive included Jack Karlson's viral 1991 arrest monologue in its 2026 Sounds of Australia collection, and the clip was uploaded to YouTube in 2009.

Okta CEO Todd McKinnon told The Verge companies should be able to revoke AI agents' access with a 'kill switch' to limit access to sensitive data; Okta's March 15 framework recommends instant access revocation, real-time permission enforcement, human approval for risky actions, and detailed audit logs.

Apple is marking its 50th anniversary since its April 1, 1976 founding, and coverage revisits its cultural influence, key products and debates over corporate behavior.

The Nintendo Museum, now open to the public, has added a gallery of production art that includes level-planning graph paper and original plans for games such as Super Metroid.

Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination founder Chris Meledandri say Nintendo worked closely with Illumination on The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which opens in theaters on April 1.