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Shea Stevens. The National Transportation Safety Board hopes to have a
preliminary report within 30 days on the midair crash near Reagan National
Airport. But NTSB board member Todd Inman says it'll take longer to determine how
and why a passenger jet collided with an army helicopter
on a routine training flight.
Our investigative team will be on scene as long as it takes in order to obtain all of
the perishable evidence and all of the fact-finding that is needed to bring us to a conclusion
of probable cause.
Our mission is to understand not just what happened, but why it happened, and to recommend changes to prevent
it from happening again. The remains of many of the 67 crash victims and the black box recorders
have been recovered from a river where both aircraft landed. Among the victims of the crash
was 26-year-old Asra Hussein. From member station WFIU, Ethan Sandweiss spoke with the woman's
husband. Raised in Carmel, Indiana, Asra Hussein worked as a healthcare consultant.
Her husband, Hamad Raza, said she had a vision to reform healthcare in America, and he feels
she had more to give.
She was returning from a work trip where she was helping to improve a hospital that really
needed help.
And she was doing what she loved.
She was even working on the flight.
Hussein and Raza met through the Muslim Student Association
at Indiana University.
They were married two and a half years.
For NPR News, I'm Ethan Sandweiss.
Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee
pushed the nominee for National Intelligence Director
on her defense of Edward Snowden,
the former NSA analyst who leaked classified documents. The lawmakers say Tulsi Gabbard's past defense of Edward Snowden, the former NSA analyst who leaked classified documents.
The lawmakers say Tulsi Gabbard's past defense of Snowden
might anger the U.S. spy she hopes to lead.
NPR's Jenna McLaughlin has more.
Former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard
faced over two and a half hours of questions
from senators who will be voting on whether they believe
she is fit to serve as President Trump's director
of national intelligence.
Several asked about her record on foreign policy,
like her decision to visit
former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2017,
or excuses she's made for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Others focused on pushing Gabbard
to condemn former NSA contractor Edward Snowden
for leaking classified documents
about US intelligence operations.
Gabbard said Snowden broke the law,
but she refused to call him a traitor.
She said he helped to expose illegal programs and inspired reform.
Jen McLaughlin, NPR News.
During a second heated Senate confirmation hearing Thursday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced
more questioning about his views on vaccines.
Maryland Democrat Angela Also Brooks asked Kennedy about his past remark that Black people
should not receive the same vaccine schedule as white people because of differing immune systems.
Kennedy cited a study by Mayo Clinic researcher Dr. Gregory Pollan, who says that there is
no evidence to back up the nominee's comments.
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new non-opioid medication that's designed
to treat moderate to severe acute pain linked to injury or after surgery.
The pill, made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, is also reportedly designed to eliminate the
risk of addiction and overdose.
Three more Israelis have been released by Palestinian militants
and returned to Israel after being held for more than 15 months in Gaza.
Five Thai hostages taken into Gaza at the same time were also freed.
In exchange for Palestinian prisoners, will be freed from Israeli jails.
NPR's Kat Lonsdorf has more.
The final female Israeli soldier held in Gaza was paraded on a stage by Mas Hamas gunmen
before being handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The handoff happened in the northern city of Jabalia, the center of intense fighting
and Israeli bombardment just weeks ago.
Two other Israeli hostages, civilians, were handed over by Islamic Jihad, a smaller militant
group in Gaza, in the southern city of Hanunis, in a chaotic scene with thousands of onlookers. The five Thai hostages, who had been working in Israel
as agricultural laborers when they were taken, were also handed over there. In exchange for
the Israeli hostages, 110 Palestinian prisoners and detainees are expected to be released
by Israel later in the day. Kat Lonsdorf, MPR News, Tel Aviv.
Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, and Stevie Wonder are among the performers at two relief concerts
still underway in Southern California to benefit the victims of several recent Los Angeles
area wildfires.
Proceeds from the event, dubbed Fire Aid, will also be used to help rebuild whole communities
that were gutted by the blazes.
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