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Good morning and welcome to the Sunday edition of Morning Wire, where we give you the weekend rundown to get ready for the week ahead. Today, discussion over UFO files are reigniting the debate over what’s really out there, Pope Leo's first Easter Mass and what to know ahead of Artemis II breaking Apollo 13's record.
But first, a U.S. crew member missing in Iran has finally been rescued, while President Trump escalates his threat to hit the country's power plants.
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In this image provided by Sepahnews, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's official website, black smoke rises into the air at what Iran's state TV claimed was the site where an American transport plane and two helicopters involved in a rescue operation were shot down, in Isfahan province, Iran, April, 2026. (Sepahnews via AP) |
Trump issues fiery new threat against Iran as details of US aviator’s rescue emerge |
After American forces rescued an aviator whose Iran-downed plane had fallen behind enemy lines, U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday made new, expletive-laden threats to escalate strikes on Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz by his deadline. A defiant Iran showed no sign of backing down, striking economic and infrastructure targets in neighboring Gulf Arab countries and challenging the U.S. account of the rescue. Read more.
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A patron passes a painting inside the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, N.M., on June 10, 1997. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File) |
As Trump orders UFO data released, a question hangs: If aliens exist, what would they think of us?
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For generations, human beings have wondered: What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us? The debate on whether little green men or UFOs are among us escalated in February when former President Barack Obama, responding to a podcaster’s question, said aliens are “real,” but he ”hasn’t seen them” and “they’re not being kept at Area 51.” President Donald Trump later announced on social media that he was directing release of government files because of “tremendous interest.” In a world riven by war, civil unrest, climate change and divisiveness, it’s easy to wonder what newcomers to Planet Earth might make of us and our struggle. Read more.
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Pope Leo urges peace in first Easter Mass as Christians celebrate in Jerusalem and Tehran |
Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff with a call Sunday to lay down arms and seek peace to global conflicts through dialogue, but he departed from a tradition of listing the world’s woes by name in the Urbi et Orbi blessing from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica. Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, emphasized Easter’s message of hope as a celebration of Jesus’ resurrection after being crucified, in both the blessing and his homily. Read more.
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This photo provided by NASA shows the moon seen from a window on the Orion spacecraft Integrity during the Artemis II mission on Friday. (NASA via AP) |
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