News Headlines - 02 April 2018

▽Tiangong 1: Chinese satellite falls to Earth, mostly burns up - CBS News

Tiangong 1, China's defunct and reportedly out-of-control space station, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere Sunday night, Chinese space authorities say. It mostly burnt up on re-entry over the central South Pacific.
The China Manned Space Engineering Office says online that the experimental space lab re-entered around 8:15 a.m. local time Monday. The tumbling spacecraft posed only a slight risk to people and property on the ground, since most of the 8.5-ton vehicle was expected to burn up on re-entry.

▽NRA board member Ted Nugent: Parkland survivors “have no soul” - Vox

Ted Nugent, a National Rifle Association (NRA) board member and rock musician, became the latest to lob personal attacks at the teenage Parkland, Florida, shooting survivors who organized the March for Our Lives — saying that the kids are “liars,” “poor, mushy-brained children,” and even “soulless” during an interview on March 30 with The Joe Pags Show, a nationally syndicated conservative radio show.

▽U.S. museum not to host A-bomb exhibit over calls for nuke abolition

The executive director of a museum in the U.S. town of Los Alamos said Friday that it will not host a traveling exhibition focused on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings as planned due to concerns over the exhibitors' position on the abolition of nuclear weapons.

▽Abe, Trump to meet April 17-18 ahead of U.S.-N. Korea summit

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday he will visit the United States between April 17 and 20 for talks with President Donald Trump to coordinate the allies' policies toward North Korea ahead of Trump's planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in May.

▽Angels’ Shohei Ohtani wins major league debut against A’s

After going 1-for-5 as a designated hitter earlier in the series, Ohtani to be a non-pitcher on Opening Day and then get a starting assignment within the first 10 games of a season since — drumroll please — Babe Ruth in 1919.
With a flood of Japanese media covering the game, there were 240 credentials issued by the A’s, with overflow press seated in in right field. The post-game crush was big enough that Ohtani conducted his postgame interview through an interpreter in the Raiders locker room.