Tonight, splash down. The crew aboard the International Space Station makes their return.

After a 17-hour trip, Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams, splash down back on Earth, their journey inside the Space X Dragon, and the first look as they exit the capsule, how they're fearing after their epic journey.

The courts versus the president, Chief Justice

John Roberts' rare statement defending a federal judge against calls for impeachment from President

Trump inside the standoff, the blinding dust storm danger in the desert southwest, and the

brush fires shutting down roads in Florida. The high stakes call between President Trump

and Russia's President Putin,

Russia agreeing to a limited ceasefire.

But what else is Putin demanding,

Richard Engel in the war zone?

The end of the ceasefire in the Middle East,

hundreds of Palestinians dead in Israeli strikes on Gaza.

What's next?

The JFK files, decades later the thousands of pages in the investigation into JFK's death,

expected out tonight.

But what do they reveal?

Why the family of the missing student now believes she has drowned.

Her mother's emotional message, as the last man believed who have seen her alive spends a chaotic day in court.

And under the microscope are woolly mice the first step to bringing back the woolly mammoths.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

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