The day's other headlines begin with some highly anticipated good news.

Two American astronauts who've been stuck in space since last year are finally back on planet Earth.

The SpaceX capsule carrying Sunny Williams and Butch Wilmore, along with fellow NASA astronaut Nick Haig

and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbinov splashed down safely off the Florida

coast moments ago. And undocking confirmed. Williams and Wilmore's journey back to Earth,

which they waited 286 days to make, began early today when they successfully undocked from the International Space Station.

Their mission was only supposed to last a week when they arrived last June, but their Boeing spacecraft

was sent back without them when it suffered numerous malfunctions. After more than nine months of

spacewalks and zero gravity, the pair arrived home now that her relief crew had arrived.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer brushed off calls within his party to step aside, saying

he remains the, quote, best leader for the Senate. He's faced a wave of backlash from Democrats

for supporting the Republican spending bill to avoid a government shutdown.

A number of House Democrats and activists called for a more public confrontation with the Republican majority.

Today, in his first interview since he postponed book tour events over security concerns and calls for protests, the minority leader defended his decision.

I knew when I took this vote, there'd be a lot of protests, but I felt I had to do it for the future, not only of the Democratic Party, but the country, because here's as bad as

that CR bill was, and it was bad. A shutdown is 10 times worse.

Schumer also appeared today on The View and will join us on the news hour

tomorrow to discuss his new book and other topics. The board of the U.S. Institute of Peace has

shrunk to just three members after a dramatic standoff yesterday between the independent

nonprofit and the Trump administration.

Employees at the Institute say they called the police after staffers from the Department

of Government Efficiency or Doge physically entered the Washington headquarters after several

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