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 .

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.

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.

The " Hands Off Our Schools " rally is expected to turn out over 500 college and high school students.

It follows about a month of demonstrations taking place at the Department of Education .

The event is a "historic alliance" standing against the "assault on education," organizers say.

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.

An estimated 645,000 U.S. men ages 20 to 50 have azoospermia, a condition in which no sperm are present in their ejaculate.

Sperm-forming stem cells are at the core of the therapy.

If the transplant is successful, the man's body should begin producing sperm.

There are ethical concerns around freezing the sperm stem cells from young boys.

How can doctors be sure the children can fully consent to the procedure, and that they have clear expectations around the long-term storage of their cells? "This is promising science — but it's still early days ," says doctor.