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A father and daughter swept offshore in the Aegean Espanomi Bay……saved by a kite surfer. All captured on kite surfer’s camera.

The Iran–U.S. Ceasefire terms are clear and explicit: the U.S. must choose—ceasefire or continued war via Israel. It cannot have both. The world sees the massacres in Lebanon. The ball is in the U.S. court, and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments.

And there it is.

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Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann admitted that he strangled and dismembered eight sex workers and dumped their bodies along desolate stretches of Long island, ending a heartbreaking saga that has haunted the New York metro area for three decades. trib.al/ZKdRxed

I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.

Esta es la civilización que Trump acaba de decir que morirá esta noche.

Reid Wiseman told his two teenage daughters where to find his will before he got on this rocket. He’s raised them alone since their mom died of cancer six years ago. Right now, he is 252,757 miles from home, farther from Earth than any human being has ever been. Wiseman grew up outside Baltimore. Got rejected from the Naval Academy, went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute instead, studied computer engineering. Became a Navy fighter pilot, flew F-14 Tomcats (the jet from Top Gun) on combat missions over Iraq and Afghanistan. Two Middle East deployments by his mid-twenties. He saw a Space Shuttle launch in person in 2001 and couldn’t let go of it. Applied to NASA while at sea on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. They picked him. Nine people out of 3,500 applicants. His astronaut class, nicknamed “The Chumps,” included Jeremy Hansen, the Canadian who’s floating next to him right now. Wiseman’s first trip to space was 165 days on the Space Station in 2014. Two spacewalks. Thirteen hours outside the hull in nothing but a suit. He climbed all the way up to Chief of the Astronaut Office, the person who decides which astronauts fly and which ones sit. Then he gave it up in 2022 to put himself back on the flight list. His wife Carroll was a nurse in a newborn intensive care unit. She got cancer. Fought it five years. Died in May 2020 at 46. His mother died from Alzheimer’s just weeks before that. Wiseman raised both daughters by himself after that. NASA’s own bio says he considers being a single parent his hardest challenge and the best part of his life. Even while she was dying, Carroll told Reid not to step back from his career. She made him keep going. His brother is a Navy SEAL. His father is 83 and battling cancer too. The old man told reporters he wanted to stay alive long enough to see his son launch. Before liftoff, Wiseman’s daughters snuck homemade cookies into his flight bag. He posted a photo with them in front of the rocket and wrote “I’m boarding that rocket a very proud father.” The previous distance record from Earth belonged to the Apollo 13 crew. 248,655 miles, set in April 1970, and it was an accident. An oxygen tank blew up and the emergency route home happened to swing them farther out than anyone before. Wiseman broke that record by 4,100 miles, and his distance is on purpose. Today he flies within 4,600 miles of the Moon, photographs stretches of the far side that were too dark or at the wrong angle for any of the 24 Apollo astronauts to see, and watches a solar eclipse that nobody on Earth can see, only the four people inside that capsule. Then he turns around and spends four days flying home to his girls.

As Artemis II prepares to complete a lunar flyby today, astronauts on board have been contemplating the historic nature of the flight. Pilot Victor J. Glover takes a moment to explain the philosophical impact of seeing Earth from the depths of space. specne.ws/CSqPwk

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month and the #FBI is fully committed to protecting innocent children from abuse. If you suspect someone is abusing a child, or that a child is a victim of abuse, we urge you to report it. Call or text the National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-422-4453 or reach out to your local law enforcement agency or the #FBI. #NCAPM

“I think the world would be a better place if people could be how they really are and discuss their kinks without fear of getting judged.” huffpost.com/entry/kristi-n…

A veteran and a 3-year-old boy, Hudson, are going viral after the child joined the veteran for a meal at a McDonald’s, where the man was sitting alone.

In 2003, a German film crew followed a nomadic family in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. The film, The Story of the Weeping Camel, was nominated for an Oscar. A mother camel had rejected her newborn after a brutal two-day labour. Without her milk, the calf would die. The family knew one option. They sent their two young sons on a journey across the desert to find a musician who could perform a ritual called Hoos, a chanting ceremony passed down for centuries specifically for this moment. The musician came. The ritual was performed. The mother camel wept real tears and turned to her calf for the first time. The film crew had gone to document a way of life. They had no idea they would capture that. UNESCO added the Hoos ritual to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2015, alongside flamenco, the Mediterranean diet, and the art of Neapolitan pizza making.

Olaf just fucking died…

NPR is looking for a White House reporter. job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpublic…

The UConn basketball team took down Duke with a last-second 3-pointer to make the Final Four. 60 Minutes sat down with Hurley last season as he burned sage on the court, spritzed holy water on the net, and placed garlic bulbs under the bleachers. All of this to appease the basketball gods. cbsn.ws/3PEha96

A clip goes viral of a bird perfectly landing on Bernie Sanders' podium during a rally

Favorite video yet is Dan Hurley's mom after The Shot: "HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!"

Chick-fil-A is offering free ice cream to families who agree to put their phones away during their meal, as part of an effort to encourage more face-to-face time and less screen use at the table.

At JFK Airport, as travelers waited in hours-long lines, an infant became unresponsive and stopped breathing. The panic of the child’s family and nearby passengers were heard by an ICE agent stationed at a checkpoint. This heroic officer immediately sprang into action—rushing toward the cries, taking the child, and performing a Heimlich maneuver that restored the infant’s breathing after nearly two minutes. This officer’s extraordinary bravery embodies the selfless service of DHS law enforcement.