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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. A second crew member from a US Fighter jet shot down over Iran has been rescued. In a post on social media last night, President Trump said the airman was safe. Officials say the rescue was carried out by American and Israeli forces in a complex operation a day after the plane was brought down by Iranian fire. Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Jason Harris says survival training likely played a key role.
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You're trained for how to handle things once you hit the ground and to figure out what is necessary to ensure that you can evade getting captured if you happen to be in enemy territory.
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Officials say both crew members are now safely out of Iran. President Trump has given Iran 48 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz or reach a peace agreement. If not, he says Tehran will face a new round of military strikes targeting its energy infrastructure. Trump has extended the deadline several times as diplomatic talks continued. Russia says it's continuing to evacuate its staff from Iran's lone operational nuclear power plant amid ongoing U S. Israeli attacks. The latest exit comes as Tehran said its nuclear facility had come under attack, killing an Iranian security guard. NPR's Charles Maintes reports from Moscow.
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The head of Russia's nuclear energy agency, Ross Adams, Alexei Lykhachov said nearly 200 Russian workers departed the Bushehr nuclear facility by bus minutes before the plant was hit. And we're now en route out of Iran. Ligachov, who's been slowly pulling his staff of 700 Russian workers from the nuclear plant since the US Israeli attacks began over a month ago, suggested a full withdrawal was now imminent. Iran has accused the US And Israel of repeatedly targeting Bushehr. And though there have been no registered spikes in radiation levels, the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency says it's deeply concerned over continued fighting near the facility. Charles Maynes, NPR News, Moscow.
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NASA is investigating the source of a mysterious smell in the Artemis 2 spacecraft that's on a mission to carry four astronauts toward the moon. NPR's Nell Greenfell Boyce reports. Officials say the odor doesn't seem worrisome.
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The astronauts reported sniffing a dusty, burning smell, like the kind that sometimes comes from an old electric heater. It seems to come from the hygiene bay, also known as the toilet, in their Orion spacecraft. Debbie Korth is the Orion deputy program manager at NASA. She says gas analys and other onboard sensors indicate that everything is fine.
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So we don't know exactly yet. We're still troubleshooting where they might be coming from. The teams are looking at some data we had on the ground where that same similar type smell had been reported.
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She said overall, the spacecraft is operating really well, and teams are only working on little things like this mystery smell as the astronauts venture ever closer to the moon. Nell Greenfield Boyce, NPR News.
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This is npr. A federal judge has blocked a Trump administration effort to collect data aimed at determining whether colleges are considering race in admissions. The preliminary injunction follows a lawsuit filed last month by a coalition of 17 Democratic attorneys general. President Trump ordered the policy after raising concerns that schools were using essays and other factors as proxies for race. The states argue the data collection threatens student privacy and could lead to baseless investigations of colleges and universities. Thousands of Christian Faithful are packing St. Peter's Square on this Easter Sunday. NPR's Jason Deroads reports. Pope Leo presided over Easter vigil at the Vatican Saturday night, his first since becoming head of the Catholic Church.
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Dozens of cardinals, bishops and priests processed into a darkened St. Peter's Basilica to usher in the ancient service known as the Great EAS Easter Vigil. The light of Christ, sang the cantor, followed by the congregation's reply, thanks be to God. Easter comes this year into a world torn by wars in the Middle east and Ukraine and at a time of great political strife in the US Yet Christians around the world celebrate, as they have for millennium, the resurrection of Christ as the triumph of light over darkness, the peace over violence, life over death. Jason DeRose, NPR News.
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