Stiff winds ‘spreading the smoke’ as Springs fire bears down on Moreno Valley while smaller Crown fire also burning A pair of wildfires broke out in southern California on Friday, marking the region’s first significant burns in a spring that has seen a major heatwave.

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Trump news at a glance: president enlists JD Vance as his ‘fraud czar’, targeting Democratic states Trump said Vance would focus on blue states and, without providing evidence, accused Democrat leaders of rampant ‘theft’ – key US politics stories from Friday 3 April at a glance Donald Trump has...

NASA's Artemis II crew are quite the photographers. See what they've snapped so far Many of the photos that have come out of the moon mission so far were taken by crew members. NASA says the crew is getting guidance from scientists on what to capture when they get closer to the moon.

President Donald Trump released a budget blueprint on Friday calling for a 23 percent cut to NASA's budget, two days after the agency launched four astronauts on the first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years.

Faced with new energy shock, Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer As war drives up gas and fuel prices, Europeans turn again to the issue of energy independence.