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The Pentagon says all six crew members who were aboard the U.S. military refueling plane
“have died in a collision with another plane in Western Iraq.”
If your school Lawrence reports, the refueling plane crash landed, but the second plane
involved in the collision landed safely. Send commonouts that two U.S. refueling tanker aircraft were involved in an incident in friendly airspace. One of them, a KC 135 tanker, went down in Western Iraq, which borders Jordan, the second tanker landed safely. Send commonouts said there was no hostile or friendly fire involved in the mishab, the
KC 135 is used to refuel jets in mid-air, and usually carries a small crew of 3-6 airmen. Rescue operations continued through the night. Central command does not identify fallen troops until 24 hours after next of can have been notified. The Pentagon said bombardment of Iran will continue to intensify, and that U.S. forces
are targeting Iran's ability to lay minds in the state of Hormuz, where a 5th of the world's oil supply transits. Quill Lawrence and PR News
“President Trump is shaking up the leadership at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and”
Pierce Tamrakeeth reports he's elevating someone who specializes in facilities, as the center prepares to undergo a major multi-year remodel. In a post on social media, Trump thanked the center's outgoing president Richard Grinnell, a loyalist with no real-performing arts experience, who is also Trump's envoy for special missions.
Trump is planning to close the center for what he calls a complete reconstruction after July 4th.
He has said the project will take two years and cost more than $250 million.
Matt Flaka, who had previously been in charge of facilities, is being elevated by Trump to be Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director. Under Trump and Grinnell's leadership, the center has hemorrhaged both patrons and performers. Tamrakeeth and PR News the White House. Amanda's facing federal charges after investigators said he sold the gun used in the old
Dominion University shooting.
“One person was killed two others were injured in the shooting at the Norfolk Virginia”
school, and Pierce Jackland Diaz has more. Kenya Mitchell Chapman is charged with three counts of making false statements while buying a firearm and dealing a gun without a license. Investigators say Chapman sold the gun to the old Dominion University shooter Mohammed Baylor Jallow for $100.
Jallow was convicted for being an ISIS supporter back in 2016, so he could not buy his own firearm. Chapman was known to investigators because he was under investigation before for a strong purchasing gun, which means buying a gun for another person three times before. Chapman will remain in custody until his next hearing are March 17th.
Jacqueline Diaz and PR News. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. The World Health Organization is warning that expanding conflict in the Middle East is debuting a health crisis across the region, including attacks on health facilities. And Pierce Hot Montana has more.
Over the past two weeks since the beginning of the U.S. and Israeli War with Iran, the WHO says it has verified 18 attacks on health care facilities in Iran, which killed at least eight health workers. In Lebanon where Israel has increased its bombardment, the WHO says it has documented 25 attacks against health facilities, killing at least 16 health workers.
In a statement that had the WHO, Tedros Adonom Gabriesus, said health risks were "souring" with hundreds of thousands of people displaced in both countries. He also said medical supply chains were disrupted due to airspace restrictions, causing significant backlogs in health supplies across 25 countries, but Montana's NPR News. The Commerce Department's newly released data shows the economy in the fourth quarter of
last year didn't grow as much as first thought. The GDP's fourth quarter estimate has been cut to 7/10 of a percent growth that's down
from the 1.4 percent initial take.
Consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, was a nemican January, and hiring has also ground largely to a standstill. Wall Street lower by the close the Dow down 119 points, the NASDAQ down 206 points, the S&P 500, down 40. I'm Jeanine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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