美国有线新闻 CNN 2015-04-23

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We'll start with news involving a possible ISIS recruitment network. Federal prosecutors¹ say that six men from Minneapolis, Minnesota tried to travel to Syria to join the ISIS terrorist group. They were charged on Monday. The FBI says it's the clearest evidence so far that some people in the U.S. are being recruited to join the militant² group. Officials believe an American who's already traveled to Syria and joined ISIS has been trying for months to get his friends from Minnesota to join him. U.S. officials say the families and friends of the alleged³ recruits tried several times to intervene and stop them before the FBI finally made the arrests.

 

NASA's New Horizon spacecraft has just sent back its first color photo of Pluto⁴. Five things to know about the mission.

 

1. It launched in January of 2006 at a cost of 700 million dollars. New Horizons is expected to pass relatively⁵ close to Pluto on July 14th, but still more than 7,000 miles away from it.

 

2. The spacecraft has a ways to go. But while passing Jupiter, snapping photos, it used that planet's gravity to speed up and trim its travel time to Pluto by three years.

 

3. Why Pluto? Because it's far out, man! Scientists estimate it takes the dwarf⁶ planet 248 years to orbit the Sun.

 

4. The photo shows an orange tinge⁷ to the rock and its largest moon. When the craft gets closer, it will take about four and a half hours for its photos to fly back to Earth. More detailed⁸ pictures should come in the months ahead.

 

5. A bit of history. Pluto was discovered in 1930, but it lost its planetary status in 2006. That's when the International Astronomical⁹ Union voted to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet.

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