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1 NASA: Countdown Continues For Artemis I Test Flight
NASA officials say conditions look good as the countdown for the Artemis One mission continues. An Orion spacecraft atop a massive SLS rocket is set to blastoff from Florida's Kennedy Space Center this morning. The mission is the first step in getting American astronauts back to the moon. The uncrewed spacecraft will fly around the moon and back on a six-week test flight called Artemis One. It's been 50 years since NASA's last Apollo moon mission. Live coverage of tanking operations has been going on since midnight on NASA television, with full launch coverage beginning at 5:30am on NASA Television and the agency’s website, as well as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch, Daily Motion, Theta.TV, and the NASA app.
2 Trump Docs Being Assessed For Potential National Security Damage
Ever since the FBI conducted a search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-lago resort in Florida, much has been made about the search itself – and the former president has been adamant that he’s done nothing wrong. Still, as the intelligence community begins the assessment into the potential damage done by the recovered documents being out of their secure locations, even Republicans are beginning to change their tune to a degree. Among them, Montana Senator Roy Blunt – who while defending Mr. Trump, also noted that Trump “should have turned over all” of the classified documents authorities said he kept after he left the White House. “I understand he turned over a lot of documents,” Blunt offered on ABC’s “This Week.” “He should have turned over all of them. I imagine he knows that very well now as well.”
3 Hawaii Wins Fourth Little League World Series Title
Hawaii is claiming its fourth ever title at the Little League World Series. Honolulu Little League beat Team Caribbean, from Curacao, 13-3 in a dominant four-inning performance at Williamsport. The Western region champions continued their impressive tournament as they plated seven runs in the third inning to pull away. Hawaii won its first title since 2018 and the team outscored their opponents 60-to-5 in the tournament.