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In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, a Long March-5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-6 spacecraft, blasts off from its launchpad at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Wenchang, south China's Hainan Province, Friday, May 3, 2024. China on Friday launched a lunar probe to land on the far side of the moon and return with samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side. (Guo Cheng/Xinhua via AP)

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The U.S. military is likely headed to the moon to counter multiplying threats in space from China and Russia, a key House Republican is predicting.

Eye on the storm: Air Force’s ‘Hurricane Hunters’ track threats before they hit the U.S. coast

Inside Teal-53, a WC-130J assigned to the "Hurricane Hunters" of the Air Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron from Keesler Air Force Base near Biloxi, Miss. Photo by Mike Glenn

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The mission that day for Teal 53, part of the “Hurricane Hunters” of the Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, was to find some bad weather out over the Atlantic, the kind of bad weather most pilots spend their lives trying to avoid. Not only are the Hurricane Hunters the only such unit in the Air Force, they’re the only ones in the world doing their particular mission.

Inside Teal-53, a WC-130J assigned to the "Hurricane Hunters" of the Air Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron from Keesler Air Force Base near Biloxi, Miss. Photo by Mike Glenn

Eye on the storm: Air Force’s ‘Hurricane Hunters’ track threats before they hit the U.S. coast

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All-American swimmer Riley Gaines, who hosts OutKick's "Girls on Gaines" podcast, appeared at a press conference in Charleston, West Virginia, on April 24, 2024, with Emmy Salerno, one of the five West Virginia girls who refused to compete against a transgender athlete at a middle-school track meet. (Courtesy of OutKick)

Court rules in favor of girls who refused to compete against transgender athlete

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., meets with reporters following a closed-door GOP strategy session, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Johnson and other Republicans are calling for an end to the student protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict, even encouraging intervention by the National Guard. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Voters deliver their ballot to a polling station in Tempe, Ariz., on Nov. 3, 2020. In a ruling Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton is upholding most of the provisions of new Arizona laws that would require counties to verify the status of registered voters who haven’t provided proof of U.S. citizenship and cross-check voter registration information with various government databases. (AP Photo/Matt York) **FILE**

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U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, talks to a member of the media during a campaign event in San Antonio on May 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

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Voters deliver their ballot to a polling station in Tempe, Ariz., on Nov. 3, 2020. In a ruling Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton is upholding most of the provisions of new Arizona laws that would require counties to verify the status of registered voters who haven’t provided proof of U.S. citizenship and cross-check voter registration information with various government databases. (AP Photo/Matt York) **FILE**

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U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, talks to a member of the media during a campaign event in San Antonio on May 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and wife hit with federal bribery indictment

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Hope Hicks, former White House Communications Director, arrives to meet with the House Intelligence Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 27, 2018. Prosecutors say Hicks spoke with former President Donald Trump by phone during a frenzied effort to keep allegations of his marital infidelity out of the press after the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape leaked weeks before the 2016 election. In the tape, from 2005, Trump boasted about grabbing women without permission. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Former Trump aide Hope Hicks testifies about key events in 2016

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Susana Lujano, left, a dreamer from Mexico who lives in Houston, joins other activists to rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, June 15, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a caucus night campaign rally on Feb. 3, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

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Attorney Worrick Robinson, who represents Country music artist Morgan Wallen, speaks to reporters after a court hearing Friday, May 3, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. Wallen waived his right to appear at the hearing following his April arrest on three felony counts of reckless endangerment and one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct for throwing a chair off the roof of a downtown bar. (AP Photo/George Walker IV via Pool)

Court appearance for country star Morgan Wallen in chair-throwing case postponed until August

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Rev. Al Sharpton speaks to the media during a protest outside the office of hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, who has donated millions to Harvard, to protest his campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, in New York. Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school's conduct policy. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Did hell freeze over? Al Sharpton equates anti-Israel college riots to Jan. 6

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In a Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, John Rich of the country music duo Big & Rich performs a song during a taping for Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Rise Telethon in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Musician John Rich rallies behind flag-defending frat brothers

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All-American swimmer Riley Gaines, who hosts OutKick's "Girls on Gaines" podcast, appeared at a press conference in Charleston, West Virginia, on April 24, 2024, with Emmy Salerno, one of the five West Virginia girls who refused to compete against a transgender athlete at a middle-school track meet. (Courtesy of OutKick)

Court rules in favor of girls who refused to compete against transgender athlete

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FILE - A student protester waves a Palestinian flag above Hamilton Hall on the campus of Columbia University, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in New York. (Pool Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

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This photo taken and released by Basmanny District Court press service on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, shows Timur Ivanov, Russian deputy Defense Minister, standing in a glass cage in the Basmanny District Court in Moscow, Russia. (Basmanny District Court press service via AP)

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U.S. support of Israel, Iran deterrence and national security illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a cabinet meeting via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Putin said he plans to visit China in May, in what could become the first foreign trip for the Russian leader after he extended his rule by six more years in an election that offered voters little real choice. Putin’s inauguration is scheduled for May 7. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., arrives as the Senate holds a procedural vote on a package of wartime funding for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Fetterman urges anti-Israel college protesters to ‘reevaluate things’

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Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, speaks during a hearing of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Capitol Hill, April 10, 2024, in Washington. In a statement released Friday, May 3, Cuellar denied any wrongdoing amid reports of pending indictments related to the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE**

Democratic congressman in Texas declares his innocence ahead of expected federal indictment

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Hope Hicks, former White House Communications Director, arrives to meet with the House Intelligence Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 27, 2018. Prosecutors say Hicks spoke with former President Donald Trump by phone during a frenzied effort to keep allegations of his marital infidelity out of the press after the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape leaked weeks before the 2016 election. In the tape, from 2005, Trump boasted about grabbing women without permission. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Former Trump aide Hope Hicks testifies about key events in 2016

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FILE - Taylor Swift performs at the Monumental stadium during her Eras Tour concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 9, 2023. Artists from Universal Music Group, which include Taylor Swift, Drake, Adele, Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish, will be returning to TikTok as the two parties have struck a new licensing agreement following an approximately three-month long dispute. The two sides said Thursday, May 2, 2024, that they are "now working expeditiously to return music by artists represented by Universal Music Group and songwriters represented by Universal Music Publishing Group to TikTok in due course." (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

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In a Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, John Rich of the country music duo Big & Rich performs a song during a taping for Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Rise Telethon in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

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Voters deliver their ballot to a polling station in Tempe, Ariz., on Nov. 3, 2020. In a ruling Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton is upholding most of the provisions of new Arizona laws that would require counties to verify the status of registered voters who haven’t provided proof of U.S. citizenship and cross-check voter registration information with various government databases. (AP Photo/Matt York) **FILE**

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President Joe Biden speaks during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, April 29, 2023. Biden is set to deliver an election-year roast at the annual event on Saturday, April 27, 2024, before a large crowd of journalists, celebrities and politicians against the backdrop of growing protests over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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Members of the New York Police Department strategic response team load arrested protesters from Columbia University onto a bus, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in New York. After entering the campus, a contingent of police officers approached Hamilton Hall, the administration building that student protesters began occupying in the morning. (AP Photo/Julius Motal)

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Run by a private firm hired by the city, migrants stay in a makeshift shelter at O'Hare International Airport, Sept. 20, 2023, in Chicago. Five mayors from around the U.S. want a meeting with President Joe Biden to ask for help controlling the continued arrival of large groups of migrants to their cities. The mayors of Denver, Chicago, Houston, New York and Los Angeles say in a letter to Biden that there has been little to no coordination, support or resources and that is leading to a crisis. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley) **FILE**

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In this photo taken from video released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, rescuers work in the burned concert hall after a terrorist attack on the building of the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, Russia. Russia is still reeling from the attack Friday in which gunmen killed 139 people in the Crocus City Hall, a concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow. Health officials said about 90 people remain hospitalized, with 22 of them, including two children, in grave condition. (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP) **FILE**

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In this image provided by the Connecticut Governor's Office, emergency personnel work at the scene of a fiery early morning crash that left both sides of Interstate 95, the East Coast’s main north-south highway, shut down in southwestern Connecticut., Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Norwalk, Conn. (Norwalk Fire Department/Connecticut Governor's Office via AP)

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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators embrace while charging devices at an encampment on the UCLA campus Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

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