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After nearly 10 days in space, the Artemis II capsule carrying four astronauts tore back through Earth's atmosphere and splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean, closing out humanity's first journey into the moon's neighborhood in more than 50 years. NASA's gumdrop-shaped Orion capsule, named Integrity, drifted under parachutes into the ocean off Southern California shortly after 5pm PT (1am Irish time), bringing to an end a mission that carried its crew farther into space than any people had traveled before. Covering…

Activists from Just Stop Oil have targeted two Vincent Van Gogh masterpieces, tossing soup over them just hours after fellow members of their group received prison sentences for vandalizing the ornate frame of the renowned piece, Sunflowers. In a post shared on X, previously known as Twitter, Just Stop Oil proclaimed: "Breaking: Two Van Gogh paintings drenched in soup just hours after Phoebe and Anna's sentencing." "In a bold move, three Just Stop Oil advocates unleashed soup on Van Gogh's artworks at the 'Poets and…