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The Artemis II crew launched into the history books Wednesday, blasting off aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft on a mission around the moon — the first crewed journey beyond low-Earth orbit in more than 50 years.Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch of the U.S., and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency, boarded the 322-foot Orion spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B on Wednesday afternoon, just hours before launching at 6:35 p.m.The Artemis II crew is expected to travel around the moon and back, marking the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since 1972.Although the mission

Fox News Channel dominated the first quarter of 2026, topping all of cable for the 20th consecutive quarter while beating CBS among weekday primetime viewers. Fox News averaged 1.7 million total day viewers during the jam-packed news cycle, compared to 691,000 for MS NOW and 577,000 for CNN. During primetime, Fox News averaged 2.6 million viewers, while MS NOW managed 1.1 million and CNN settled for only 797,000. It was the 97th straight quarter that Fox News topped cable news primetime viewership, and the network also outdrew ESPN despite college football and NFL playoffs.Fox News commanded nearly 60% of the cable news

President Donald Trump goes before the nation in prime time on Wednesday evening to deliver what the White House says is "an important update" on the war with Iran.The president's address comes amid the month-long attacks by the U.S. and Israel on Iran, which polls indicate are unpopular with many Americans, and a surge in gas prices as a direct result of the fighting have triggered a further slide in Trump's standing in public opinion surveys.The political implications are clear: The strikes on Iran and the erosion of the president's approval ratings are warning signs for the GOP as Republicans

After news of a major heist at a $20 million seaside Massachusetts mansion, one former FBI investigator says details provided by the home's owner could point to an inside job."It certainly sounds to me pretty clear that there was some inside information about this property, about the home, and more so about the specific valuables that were taken," Bill Daly told Fox News Digital, adding that unless certain items were widely and publicly known to be inside the home, investigators will likely hone in on potential suspects who had access to the property.Daly was an investigator and counterintelligence operative for

Every year, people co-opt Passover to push partisan agendas. This year, Jewish human rights groups are already promoting Passover Haggadah materials that urge people to put "social justice on your seder table" and confront "racism," poverty, authoritarianism, and the climate crisis. Instead of letting the holiday change us, we keep recruiting it to endorse causes.Predictable columns recast the holiday as a lesson in immigrant rights. Reform Judaism even encourages adding modern political symbols to the seder plate, like olives in solidarity with Palestinians, oranges to symbolize LGBTQ+ inclusion, fair-trade chocolate to represent labor rights, and acorns to honor American Indians.I'm

Italy made heartbreaking history on Tuesday night, as they missed their third straight World Cup bid following a loss to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Italy is now the first World Cup-winning team to miss three consecutive tournaments following the penalty-kick shootout loss in the European playoffs. The nation was once a soccer powerhouse, winning it all four times with its most recent in 2006. But recent years have not been kind to the Italian squad, and they were feeling the pain of the loss after the match. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM"We still don’t believe it – that we’re out and

I’ve had no intention of piling on Kristi Noem.She did a terrible job, especially with ICE and FEMA, seemed obsessed with promoting herself–whether at a Salvadoran prison or on horseback at Mount Rushmore–and President Trump fired her. He probably waited too long, but he did oust her as secretary of Homeland Security. End of story.Until now.300-PLUS ANGEL FAMILIES JUMP INTO MARKWAYNE MULLIN’S DHS NOMINATION FIGHT IN UNEQUIVOCAL TERMSI know this reeks of gossipy tabloidism, but it directly involves the ex-secretary and, what makes it dead serious, it raises the prospect of blackmail. And it follows the romantic rumors that she

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, was hospitalized on Tuesday after undergoing a minor procedure to remove fluid that was pressing against her lung, according to her office.Ivey, 81, will be monitored at Baptist Medical Center South in Montgomery in the coming days out of an abundance of caution, a spokesperson for the governor said in a statement.The fluid was discovered on Tuesday when the governor went to her doctor because she was feeling discomfort in her left side and recently experienced some shortness of breath."For the last three weeks, Governor Kay Ivey has experienced some discomfort in her left