NASA is looking for 4 volunteers to spend one year in a simulated Moon/Mars mission starting no earlier than August 2027.

Participants will live in isolated habitats, grow food, monitor their health, perform simulated spacewalks, and adapt to the 40-minute-longer Martian day.

The goal is to study the physical and psychological effects of long-duration space missions.

Source: SPIEGEL

Dutch intelligence says Russian hackers compromised internet-connected security cameras (including doorbell cameras) near NATO military routes to monitor weapons shipments to Ukraine.

Many cameras were reportedly easy to hack due to weak passwords and outdated software. Authorities have warned affected organizations to improve security.

Source: The Telegraph

The Trump administration is intensifying pressure on Cuba by targeting its overseas medical missions, a major source of revenue for Havana.

The U.S. argues the program exploits Cuban doctors through forced labor and is urging countries to end or reduce contracts, threatening visa restrictions for officials who continue participating.

Several countries—including Jamaica, Guatemala, the Bahamas, and Honduras—have scaled back or ended their agreements, while others, such as St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, say they depend on Cuban doctors to keep their healthcare systems running.

Cuba has about 24,000 medical workers abroad, and the program generated roughly $5.3 billion in 2024, about half of the country's export earnings.

Source: WSJ

The Trump administration has narrowed the definition of "harm" under the Endangered Species Act, meaning destroying or degrading an endangered species' habitat is no longer automatically illegal unless it directly injures or kills the animal.

Source: NYT

Trump flew home from Türkiye on an older Air Force One after U.S. officials received Israeli intelligence about a possible Iranian plot to kill him.

Although the threat wasn't considered fully credible, officials decided his new Qatari-donated jet lacked some defensive capabilities needed for elevated-risk missions.

Trump switched to the older aircraft for the most sensitive part of the trip before returning to the new jet for the flight back to Washington.

Source: WSJ

Iran's FM Spox. Esmail Baghaei:

Iran will not allow inspections of facilities damaged by the U.S. and Israeli attacks, and UN Security Council Resolution 2231 has effectively lost its legal validity.

Zelensky:

China reacted very seriously, very harshly, and very clearly to media reports in Russia regarding various possibilities of nuclear use.

I think you've heard such voices in the Russian media, like, "What if we respond to the strikes by Ukrainians with nuclear weapons?"

Iran's FM Spox. Esmail Baghaei:

We did not make any request for negotiations with the United States, but we accepted the mediator's visit to Iran.

Hillary Clinton:

The Electoral College needs to go.

We shouldn't be hanging on to an anachronism that was designed for slave-owning states.

Source: Democracy Docket

Hillary Clinton:

I think there is a hardcore—it's about 34, 35% of the electorate—who are literally going to follow Trump off the cliff.

Source: Democracy Docket

Hillary Clinton:

Trump has like an enemies list that would put Nixon's to shame.

The level of corruption—political and financial corruption—is not even being hidden anymore. It is out in plain view.

These people are unleashed and unhinged.

Source: Democracy Docket

Cuba: National power grid collapses again. Second nationwide blackout in less than a week.

The U.S. has given Iran 24 hours to publicly commit to stopping attacks on ships and keeping the Strait of Hormuz open.

Washington warned that failure to comply would bring "serious consequences," adding that contingency plans are already in place if diplomacy fails.

Source: Barak Ravid

Israel's state-owned Rafael Advanced Defence Systems is in talks with Indian defence firms to co-produce Tamir interceptor missiles for the Iron Dome air defence system in India.

Source: NDTV

Senior U.S. officials say Iran told them the shipping attacks came from “an errant part of their system.”

Senior U.S. officials:

If we don’t get the nuclear dust, we do not have a deal with Iran.

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Trump:

1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME! Orders have already been given, and the U.S. Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran - PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!