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of six crew members aboard a U.S. military refueling aircraft were killed when the plane crashed in Western Iraq.
“U.S. Central Command says that rescue efforts continue, but the U.S. military says the”
plane was not brought down because of hostile or friendly fire.
A second aircraft involved in the incident landed safely.
A few years J&R reports the refueling plane went down in Iraq's on-bar province. The Western province is largely desert. It's main cities, Ramadi and Fuluga, where the site of some of the fiercest battles with Iraqi insurgents after the U.S. invasion in 2003, but they've been calm for years. The flight tracking organization Flight Radar 24 showed two American refueling tankers leaving
Israel Thursday and only one returning, that one in an emergency landing, J&R and Pair News, airbill in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Iran is conducting fresh attacks on neighboring countries today. It sent dozens of drones towards Saudi Arabia. Iran's new Supreme Leader released a written statement yesterday.
He warned Persian Gulf nations against hosting U.S. military bases.
“Israel continues to attack sites in Lebanon, saying it is targeting the Iranian proxy militium”
Hezbollah, and Pair's Hedil Al-Shelchee reports from Beirut. The Israeli military said it started a new wave of strikes in the Lebanese capital
as an issued evacuation order as for parts of central Beirut for the first time since
the beginning of the war in Iran. Explosions rocked the city as strikes hit a building in the Bashuta neighborhood just one kilometer from downtown Beirut. It's a busy commercial area and close to the Prime Minister's office. The Israeli military did not immediately say what it was targeting in the building.
The Israeli chief of staff said that the military operation in Lebanon will "not be short," he said that Israel would be ready to bring additional troops and act with "great determination to fight Hezbollah." Hedil Al-Shelchee and Pair News, Beirut. The FBI is leading two investigations of back-to-back terror attacks yesterday in the U.S.
“A shooter opened fire at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.”
He killed one person and wounded two others. The FBI says the shooter was killed by a group of ROTC students who overpowered him. Separately, the FBI is investigating an attacker who drove his truck into a synagogue in suburban Detroit, Michigan. FBI special agent Jennifer Runyon says the attacker was found dead in the vehicle.
"I can confirm that we are leading the investigation right now as a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community." Officials say one synagogue's security officer was knocked out by the truck of fire broke out from the truck and 30 officers were treated for smoke inhalation. This is NPR.
The government health care program Medicaid used to explicitly promise that people's personal data would not be shared with immigration authorities for enforcement reasons. Last year, the Trump administration reversed that policy. Alex Olgen reports some eligible people are now asking if it is safe to enroll in the program.
This change reverses decades of guarantees that personal information collected by Medicaid would remain private.
The program provides health insurance for more than 70 million low-income and disabled people.
Daddy Lopez manages health insurance at Venice Family Clinic in the Los Angeles area. One patient was so scared she dropped Medicaid. "She found it incredibly hard to go without health coverage. And so she came back. She's like, "Now I'm here taking a risk because I need my medication."
80% of the community health centers patients rely on Medicaid. If people drop it but keep coming in for care, the clinic could face serious financial strain. It's unclear how or if immigration authorities have used this information. The Department of Health and Human Services told NPR an statement, "These checks are
to ensure only eligible people receive benefits." For NPR News, I'm Alex Olgen. The Senate is passed by partisan measure intended to help lower housing costs in the U.S. It seeks to encourage more home-building. The bill blocks investors from buying single family homes if they already own more than
350 of them. The House will now get this bill but some House Republicans would like to make additional changes to the measure. I'm Core of a Coleman NPR News in Washington. This week on the NPR Politics podcast, the Warren Iran is rippling through the global economy
and Warren packing what that could mean for this November's midterms. Plus, detailed reporting on the tactics ISIS using to surveil American citizens. Listen this week on the NPR Politics podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.
