An apparently random occurrence aboard the Orion spacecraft quickly resulted in an “out of this world” ad campaign for the hazelnut cocoa spread Nutella. During a video clip posted by the crew of the Artemis II lunar mission — just moments before they broke the record, set by Apollo 13, for distance traveled from earth — a jar of Nutella floated across the cabin, tumbling end over end as it prominently displayed the label. “A jar of Nutella was seen floating through the Orion spacecraft approximately 4 minutes before the Artemis II crew made history as they passed the Apollo 13 distance record from 1970 of 248,655 miles from Earth on Monday,” CBS News captioned a short video of the moment. A jar of Nutella was seen floating through the Orion spacecraft approximately 4 minutes before the Artemis II crew made history as they passed the Apollo 13 distance record from 1970 of 248,655 miles from Earth on Monday. pic.twitter.com/wqt680thQL — CBS News (@CBSNews) April 6, 2026 Nutella quickly capitalized on what was being hailed across X as the best accidental product placement in history, sharing a video clip with the caption, “Honored to have traveled further than any spread in history. Taking spreading smiles to new heights.” Honored to have traveled further than any spread in history

After a long weekend of union agitator-fueled rumors about The Daily Wire’s new action film, production has wrapped after five weeks, as planned, and the union reps didn’t get their way. It all started with Deadline publishing an exclusive story about actor Jonathan Majors falling through a window while on set of the production in progress, which, according to their sources, led to a union strike and other allegations of safety concerns on set. Faithful Daily Wire fans won’t be surprised to learn that there’s more to the story. Film producer Dallas Sonnier provided a short, yet direct, statement to Deadline, saying simply: “The entire industry is in freefall due to strikes, and now that their members are out of work, they’re trying to sabotage the few people who are still producing. We don’t negotiate with communists.” So what really went down? During the fourth week of filming, an executive from the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, best known as IATSE, reached out to Sonnier claiming that she “represented the majority of the crew,” which consisted of both local hires in South Carolina and returning staff from previous projects. The IATSE rep “demanded” that they immediately be recognized and negotiate a collective bargaining agreement to cover staff wages, hours, benefits, and working conditions. Before the deadline she proposed even arrived, a small handful of picketers were out creating a nuisance. It was that same day that Majors and actor JC Kiljoyne fell through a window filming a scene. Deadline posted video of the incident, and reported it was a six foot drop — though pictures posted show it was barely four feet off the ground. The height of the window btw https://t.co/Lr1KlckW9c pic.twitter.com/sAZF0UYiLb — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) April 6, 2026 That stunt with the window was part of production’s plans for later that day, and Sonnier says it was far from an emergency. “Everyone handled it quickly and successfully. We always have licensed medics on our sets, and this day, we had two,” Sonnier said. “The production was immediately halted to ensure safety sign-offs by both medics before moving forward.” He also says the clip leaked to Deadline is definitely going to make it into the final cut. The actors’ comments are fully aligned. Kiljoyne’s rep told Deadline in the aftermath that he “did not feel unsafe on set and continues to have a positive experience working on the project.” Majors made similar comments to TMZ. “I’m ok. I was happy to be on set and help tell the story. I am grateful for whoever is checking on me, the cast and crew for regarding our safety. It’s going to be a great movie and I am looking forward to fans seeing it!” While IATSE came out of left field, there was a SAG rep on set many days who confirmed that the actors “should show up and finish the movie as planned” following the accident. It was noted that the SAG rep had “zero safety concerns” for the movie. “We had a licensed armorer every single day,” Sonnier said. “We had a safety meeting at the top of each day, and prior to any special effect or stunt. The reason we don’t have a ‘RUST’ situation is because we take this stuff so seriously,” he added, referring to Alec Baldwin’s firearm discharging while filming and killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021. During the fourth week of filming, 15% of the crew decided to leave. Based on conversations Sonnier had with the whole crew, this was the result of IATSE pressure and not because of any safety concerns, he said. All the staff who left were replaced by the next morning. Crucially, those who left did not appear to be part of the picketing. “The ‘strikers’ were just angry union rep protestors,” Sonnier said, noting that by day two, their numbers were reduced to about seven people total. The picketers caused minor annoyances, such as yelling at actors, encouraging cars to honk to disrupt filming, pressuring vendors to pull gear, sending threatening letters, and yelling “CUT!” and “ACTION!” as a way of confusing the actors on set. But in the end, production rolled on. The Deadline article was released after all these efforts failed, especially after Sonnier refused to engage with their demands. Sonnier said IATSE reps never called him or contacted him beyond the first email “because they are total cowards and whiny busybodies.” The producer says this was an illegitimate strike. Does IATSE have any response to this? IATSE, of course, did not respond to questions from The Daily Wire.

The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission spent Monday looking at parts of the moon that had never been seen by the human eye — and they paused briefly to pay a one-of-a-kind tribute to a lost family member. The crew shared video on Instagram as they discussed the new features and craters they’d observed while seeing the far side of the moon for the first time, and shared the names they’d chosen for two of them: Integrity, for their spacecraft; and Carroll, for mission Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife who died of cancer in 2020 at just 46 years old.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) “Our science team helped us out with a couple of relatively fresh craters on the moon that have not been previously named, and our crew would like to propose a couple of potential names for those items or those areas,” Canadian astronaut and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen explained. “We spent a bit of time this morning looking out the window and we’re able to see them now, both with our naked eye and through the long lens, and so we feel this is a good time to send this down, and a special shout out to Kelsey for helping us with this.” Hansen said that the first of the two features was a crater that the crew wanted named “in honor of our great spacecraft Integrity,” but the second was one that held far deeper meaning for the members of the Artemis II crew. “A number of years ago, we started this journey [with] our close-knit astronaut family and we lost a loved one, and there’s a feature and a really neat place on the moon and it is on the near side/far side boundary, in fact it’s just on the near side of that boundary, and so at certain times of the moon’s transit around earth you can — we will be able to see this from earth. And so we lost a loved one, her name was Carroll, the spouse of Reid, the mother of Katey and Ellie,” Hansen said, his voice breaking. Wiseman could be seen in the video wiping away tears, as could mission specialist Christina Koch. “And if you want to find this one, you look at Glushko and it’s just to the northwest of that at the same latitude as Ohm and it’s a bright spot on the moon. We would like to call it Carroll,” he continued, his voice still shaky as he spelled out the name. The microphone cut then, and the three other astronauts quickly converged on Hansen, enveloping each other in a zero-gravity group hug.

Actress Melissa Gilbert gave her first interview since her husband, fellow actor Timothy Busfield, was accused of child sexual abuse. The “Little House on the Prairie” star has made it clear she is standing by her husband amid his legal troubles. Gilbert explained her stance to George Stephanopoulos on Monday’s episode of “Good Morning America.” “I know this man in my bones,” she said during the interview. “No one knows him better than I do. I know literally everything about him. Our marriage has had a lot of ups and downs, we’ve been through our struggles, we’ve had our own issues to deal with, and we’ve worked through everything.” Gilbert added, “He is nothing if not completely honest with me. I trust him with my children’s lives, I trust him with my grandchildren’s lives, my nieces and nephews. He is an honorable, caring, generous human being.” Busfield stands accused of sexually assaulting twin boys beginning when they were 7 years old. The actor worked with the child actors, born in 2014, on the set of “The Cleaning Lady,” which aired on Fox from 2022 to 2025. Busfield directed some episodes and was named an executive producer. One of the boys identified in court documents as “SL” told Albuquerque Police Officer Marvin Brown that Busfield touched his “penis and buttocks, masking it as play” more than once. The alleged abuse is said to have started with the boys when they were 7 years old, The Daily Wire previously reported. An investigation began in November 2024 when a University of New Mexico Hospital doctor reported his suspicions of sexual abuse and grooming to authorities. Investigators initially didn’t press charges, but the case was reopened in September 2025 when one of the boys reported the alleged abuse to his doctor. Gilbert told “GMA” that no matter how the trial goes, she believes her life is over and that Busfield’s reputation is forever ruined. “Our life as we knew it is done. We are grieving what we had. All of our plans, all of our dreams, all of our ideas, all of our projects,” the actress said. “For Tim, it’s done. He’s canceled … even if he’s exonerated, he will always be that guy. The last person in the world who would hurt a child.” Gilbert also insisted that if she had any inkling that her husband was a predator, she would not forgive him. “Believe me, if I thought for a second that Tim Busfield hurt a child, he’d have a lot more to worry about than prison,” she said during the same interview. She said past allegations of sexual misconduct did not phase her prior to their marriage in April 2013. Busfield faced two previous sexual assault allegations in 1994 and 2012, but was never charged. “When Tim and I got together, the internet existed. I didn’t go into my relationship blind. I’m neither naive nor am I complicit,” she said. “I talked to him about it. I asked him questions about it. I heard his side of the story — which nobody has ever heard — which is the truth. And when the time is right, and that is not now, Tim will tell the truth of all of these past allegations when he needs to.”

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and self-described “First Partner of California,” offered a bizarre defense of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and former Attorney General Pam Bondi. Newsom, in a recent video, claimed that the two women — both recently removed from cabinet-level positions in President Donald Trump’s administration — were victims of “the Patriarchy” and proof positive that the war on women was raging ever onward. WATCH:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Jennifer Siebel Newsom (@jennifersiebelnewsom) “Trust me, I’m not a fan of Pam Bondi nor Kristi Noem,” Newsom began, adding, “But I need to call out that it’s no surprise to me that the first two prominent people pushed out of this administration were women.” “Let me explain. The conservative women that Trump handpicks, who align themselves with an agenda that controls women, restricting our rights, limiting our autonomy, and pushing us back into the straitjacket of femininity that is only in service of men, that’s a familiar pattern here,” Newsom claimed. “Women are brought in and packaged Mar-a-Lago-style and lifted up, as long as they commit to whole-heartedly serve the interests of the patriarch at the top.” Newsom went on to argue that those positions only appeared to hold power “or proximity to power” and failed to provide any kind of real authority or security: “There’s no secure place inside this handpicked patriarchal body that systemically disrespects, devalues, and discriminates against women and girls.” California’s “first partner” pivoted to attack Noem and Bondi — and other women aligned with the Trump administration — as “complicit” in devaluing other women and warned that they would always be the “first to go” when it mattered. “Your power is only temporary,” she claimed, adding, “And ultimately, they will come for you.” Newsom made no mention of the fact that Trump was responsible for hiring the first woman to manage a winning presidential campaign (Kellyanne Conway), the first working mother to serve as White House Press Secretary (Sarah Huckabee Sanders), and the first woman to serve as White House Chief of Staff (Susie Wiles). She also failed to acknowledge that it was actually a man — Green Beret veteran Mike Waltz, now serving as U.S. Ambassador to the UN — who was the first high-ranking official to be ousted from his role as national security adviser.