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Officials in Texas say two people are dead following a military-heavout-copter crash in
“Central Texas Wednesday from Member Station KUT in Austin, Gabriele Basquez, Naira reports."”
The Bell County Sheriff's Office says the Apache attack helicopter crashed around 130 pm local time and started a fire which has since been contained. The crew members were later pronounced that at 230 pm, according to the Sheriff's Office. The aircraft was based in Fort Hood. It's unclear what led to the crash.
Military responders, local fire and police departments, and the Texas Department of Public Safety, all responded to the incident. Fort Hood's Criminal Investigations Division and the Bell County Sheriff's Office are now investigating. For MPR news, I'm Gabriele Basquez-Naira in Austin.
Attorney General Todd Blanche has announced charges of fraud against a former employee of
the Southern Poverty Law Center. Troy Public Radio's Kyle Gassard reports the employee claim she's being unfairly targeted by the Trump administration.
“Heidi Byrex spent over 20 years at the SPLC.”
While she was there, Blanche says she funneled donor money through shell companies to inform its who were embedded with neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups. The belief she was part of the effort to open bank accounts and complete fictitious companies names and make payments to individuals for reasons that were not as described. The court filing also claims Byrex was romantically linked to an informant that received
over $1 million. Byrex Attorney says she willingly came to court on Wednesday to fight the charges and points to her record of work to dismantle hate groups and her testimony in Congress's investigation of January 6th. For MPR News, I'm Kyle Gassard in Montgomery, Alabama.
A new UN report shows that is really settler attacks on Palestinian and the West Bank are at a record level, but many Palestinians continue to work at Israeli settlements and factories and PR's Frank Lankford reports. Many Palestinian factory workers say they don't like working for any aspect of these really occupation, but they say they have no other choice.
The West Bank economy is so bad. Palestinians take jobs with Israelis because they pay so much more than jobs and their villages. Zucker is 29 and works in the cleaning department of a factory. He asked us not to use his last name out of concern for his job.
A force to do this to speak feeling humiliated until I need to have work for my family. Palestinian workers also told me that there is rarely bosses opposed settler attacks on Palestinians and mostly treat their Palestinian employees well. Frank Lankford and PR News in the occupied West Bank.
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It was sold at a convenient store in Quincy, Illinois along the Mississippi River. This is NPR News. The death toll from Monday's powerful earthquake in Colombia has risen to at least 250. This is rescuers rushed to try and find anyone alive under the rubble. In contrast, civilian run websites are filled with thousands of posts of missing loved ones,
leading to fears that the death toll will climb dramatically higher. NPR's carry-con reports. One website lists more than 4,000 missing relatives. Meanwhile, dramatic rescues of people pull the live from the rubble continue like this scene late Wednesday afternoon at the site of a collapse for story building in the Western
Colombian city of Pereira. It was broadcast live on Cotta Colt TV. A rescue worker hears a man buried under the rubble and screams to the crowd digging through the shattered concrete. There's life.
There is life. Cali Colombia's mayor where dozens of buildings collapse has rescued teams continue to find signs of people alive as crews rushed to save them. When President Trump was secretly taken out of Turkey on a different military jet than Air Force One in July, it's because Israel had worn the U.S. of a possible Iranian attack.
This, according to a source who talked to NPR, Israel had intelligence of a possible threat against Trump, and the firing of an Iranian missile towards the 747, and the information was shared with American officials, Trump said he was following the secret service instructions to go on a different plane. This is NPR.
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