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Artemis II this week takes four astronauts farther from Earth than anyone has traveled
In outer space, history is being made by three men and a woman aboard an Artemis II space mission that launched last week from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Their 10-day trip around the moon is the first crewed mission to deep space in 54 years. It...
Pope Leo emerges as pointed Trump critic
U.S.-born Pope Leo has emerged as a pointed critic of the Iran war. On Palm Sunday, he said God ignores the prayers of leaders who wage war and have “hands full of blood,” in an apparent rebuke of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who had prayed for “o...
This week's word in the news: INCOMPREHENSIBLE
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“What is incomprehensible is that the structure the Commission chose is now being used to justify not carrying out the monitoring at all,” she said.
The Key West Citizen -- 04/06/2026
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