Live from MPR News on child Snyder, President Trump made a controversial offe...
night during his speech closing out the first night of his Republican midterm convention
“in Dallas, Trump offered a cash payment to every adult citizen if the Republican party”
maintains control of Congress after the midterm elections. "You win with us and you get $5,000, it will be called the Trump dividend." Trump did not provide details about where the money would come from, or the legality of such a payment, according to the most recent census data that Trump dividend could cost $1,000, trillion or more.
U.S. other Command has announced another deadly strike on a boat in the Caribbean, and PR's Quill Lawrence reports at U.S. forces killed three people suspected of narco trafficking. South-composted a blurry video on social media showing a small boat in the open sea exploding in flames, and then wreckage floating in the water. The Trump administration's policy of blowing up small boats on suspicion of drug smuggling
began a year ago, and has killed more than 225 people. That includes survivors who were left to drown, or, in at least one case, were killed
while clinging to wreckage in a second attack.
“The Trump administration says it is that war with drug traffickers and can therefore kill”
them on suspicion, but the laws of war specifically prohibit firing on shipwrecked sailors. Several experts call it "extrajudicial killing" or simply murder. The White House claims the tactic has saved U.S. lives, but there is no evidence that the amount of drugs entering the U.S. has decreased. Quill Lawrence and PR News.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he's glad to see right-wing governments in South America who are ready to join the U.S. in fighting so-called narco terrorist. He's on a swing through Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, as in PR's Michelle Kellyman reports. In Ecuador, Secretary Rubio announced more targeted sanctions and aid to the military to help the government go after drug traffickers.
He brushed off concerns that fishermen are getting caught up in this fight and made clear that the U.S. will continue to quote "blow up boats." And of a threat in this region is emerging to the national security and national interests
“of our country, we are going to address it.”
And what we're very happy about is that we can now address it in partnership with other presidents and other leaders in this region that feel the same way. He was speaking after stops in Colombia and Ecuador before flying on to Peru to meet the newly elected president, Kiko Fujimori, Michelle Kelliman and PR News in Lima, Peru. One of the pilots of that Amazon cargo plane that crashed while landing in Miami Sunday
warned that the plane was coming in too fast. That's according to the National Transportation Safety Board, which released a summary
Wednesday at the cockpit voice recordings, the NTSB said the other pilot never gave a consistent
verbal response. The plane touched down awkwardly briefly attempted to take off again before overshooting the runway. I'm Jail Snyder, and this is in PR News. Ohio's Republican Governor defending the Democratic-Gubernatorial Candidates campaign following
a weekend security incident, a 38-year-old man has since been released from jail, but is facing related assault charges, Sarah Donaldson, with Ohio Public Media's State House News Bureau reports. An Ohio State Highway Patrol spokesperson says Patrick Havis, quote, "Force his way through a crowd toward Democratic candidate Amy Acton on Sunday."
Governor Mike DeWines says anything interfering with a candidate's ability to meet and talk with voters is bad. When asked about claims online by some right-wing influencers that Acton's campaign blew the situation at a proportion to win or respond to it. "Well, that's a bunch of garbage, no one over blue it, no facts or facts.
These are not good situations, and they're anti-democratic." Authorities say Havis was armed with the teaser into handguns, although it's generally legal for gun owners to carry at local fairs in Ohio. For MPR News, I'm Sarah Donaldson, and Columbus. The racketeering conspiracy trial against China's Huawei Technologies kicked off Wednesday
in federal court in Brooklyn, federal prosecutors accusing HWA of a litany of crimes, including stealing technology from American companies, abusing US financial system, and helping Iran spy on its citizens. HWA is banned from selling gear for wireless telecom networks, U.S. carriers over fierce accompany poses a security risk has been banned by other Western allies, including Britain and Canada.
This is MPR News. "I haven't seen my son since 2012." This is Deborah Tyson. The disappearance of her son, Austin, is one of the biggest missing person cases in the world. "What do you want from me?
Why should I solve the mystery?" "I know that my son is somewhere alive." Listen to "Where is Austin Tyson?" from MPRs embedded, and BBC Radio 4, on the MPR app
