Mike Pence will receive the 2025 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

The award is presented to those who have made courageous decisions of conscience without regard for the personal or professional consequences.

Pence publicly split with President Donald Trump after Trump pressured Pence to reject electoral votes won by Joe Biden .

Mayor Tom Ross says he takes full responsibility and holds Stalheim "in the utmost regard and respect" An investigation finds Ross sent a video of himself masturbating to the city attorney.

He sent the video minutes after the two had a telephone call discussing a police officer's suicide.

Ross told an interviewer he had recorded the video at home during a lunch break and meant to send it to his romantic partner.

Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen will launch on the Artemis 2 mission in April 2026.

The emblem includes design elements that symbolize the past, present and future of human space exploration.

The Artemis 2 crew will not enter lunar orbit like the Apollo 8 crew, the first humans to fly to the moon in 1968.

Lake Wales boys' weightlifting wins third straight Olympic regional title; Auburndale 5th .

Lake Wales weightlifter Josh Canet ( 219 ) was a double champion in Olympic and traditional.

States are slated for April 11-12 at the RP Funding Center .

All foreign countries will face a baseline 10 percent tariff, but several nations are being hit with steeper tariffs on imports.

Canada and Mexico are still subject to a 25 percent tariff.

The tariffs are set to go into place at midnight .

Trump held up a poster board laying out the tariff percentage each of those countries would face.

Lesotho : 50 percent Saint Pierre and Miquelon , 50 percent Cambodia : 49 percent Laos: 48 percent Madagascar: 47 percent Vietnam : 46 percent tariff Myanmar : 44 percent Sri Lanka ; 44 percent Syria : 41 percent Mauritius: 40 percent Iraq : 39 percent Guyana : 38 percent Botswana ; 37 percent Bangladesh: 37 percent Réunion.

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare ( THL ) examined impact of social security cuts on income of recipients of basic security in 2024-25 .

Dispospositon income of unemployed households has fallen by approximately 20 percent compared to five years ago .

The main culprits are cuts in housing allowances and the elimination of child allowances for unemployment benefits.

NASA ’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spoke to reporters for the first time since their return to Earth on March 18 .

They addressed questions about the Boeing Starliner saga during a NASA news conference.

Williams and Wilmore said they were honored and humbled by the amount of interest in their journey.

President Donald Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk have repeatedly taken credit for expediting their return.

NASA officials have consistently denied that Williams and Wilmore were ever “stranded” “We always had a lifeboat, a way for them to come home,” said Steve Stich , who heads NASA ’s Commercial Crew Program , on March 18 .

The space agency mapped out the path home last summer — well before Musk or Trump began talking about it.

NASA had said in December it was expecting to delay Crew-9 ’s return because of SpaceX.

The company was tracking some hangups preparing a new SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule for Crew-10 .

NASA and SpaceX later opted to use a different capsule for the crew-10 mission.

Affirm, which offers buy now, pay later purchasing options, plunged 19%.

Robinhood, PayPal, American Express, Discover and American Express each tumbled.

Analysts expressed concern about consumer spending and credit.

Fintech companies that rely on transaction volume or installment-based lending could see revenue and credit performance deteriorate.

FDA lost around 3,500 full-time employees due to the layoffs, including staff supporting the agency's bird flu response.

Officials had planned the exercise for 40 laboratories across the FDA -backed Veterinary Laboratory Investigation and Response Network , as well as additional government-backed and private labs, which are using different methods to test for virus.

Artificial intelligence is projected to reach $4.8 trillion in market value by 2033 , U.N. Trade and Development agency says.

UNCTAD says AI market cap would roughly equate to size of Germany 's economy.

Agency also raised concerns that AI could affect 40% of jobs worldwide and worsen inequality between nations.