Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.

Three, two, one, booster ignition and lift off.

The crew of Artemis II now bound for the moon.

Humanity's next great voyage begins.

Four astronauts are on their way to fly around the moon.

NASA launched humanity's first lunar trip in 53 years.

The 32-story rocket blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. The cruise capsule will

circle Earth before hurtling 1,000 miles beyond the moon and making a U-turn to come back around the

other side. The entire mission will take 10 days and span 230,000 miles,

ending with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

President Trump says he will bomb Iran back to the Stone Ages if it doesn't open up the street of Hormuz.

Trump's remarks come a day after he said he was nearly ready to wind down the war.

Trump also said that Iran's president asked for a ceasefire, but Iran's foreign ministry

spokesman called the claim false and baseless.

The Supreme Court seems skeptical of President Trump's restrictions on birthright citizenship.

Trump's order declares that children born to parents who are in the U.S.

illegally or temporarily are not U.S. citizens.

Trump appeared in the courtroom a first for a sitting president.

Immigration has been a central issue to his presidency, as NPR's Mara Liason explains.

His immigration policies right now are net negative.

They used to be some of his biggest positives.

People like the idea of a secure border and deporting criminals, but they

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