'Morning Quickie': Tiger King wants freed like Griner, & Orion splashes down

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Joe Exotic, The Tiger King! Remember him? Well, he feels he should be next in line after President Biden struck a deal with Russia to free WNBA star Brittney Griner. Joe Exotic is serving a 12-year sentence for a murder-for-hire plot.

NASA's Orion spacecraft is back on Earth following its weeks-long flight around the moon. The historic journey covered one-point-four-million miles after launching from Kennedy Space Center on November 16th. NASA aims to use the Artemis One mission to eventually get astronauts back on the moon.

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