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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are in Miami looking into the crash of an Amazon cargo plane that killed five people and injured five others. Here's MPR's Jacqueline Diaz. Investigators have recovered flight data in the cockpit voice recorder from the crashed plane. The broader work by investigators is just getting started. They are expected to stay on scene for a week. That's according to Jennifer Homody, chair of the National Transportation Safety Safety. board. Based on her latest updates, here's some of what we know. The Amazon Prime cargo plane overran

the runway. It crashed into an airline cleaning company van that was carrying seven people, then hit a car before skidding to a stop. Comandee did not comment on the status of those who were injured. Recovery of the victims is still happening. The cause of the crash has yet to be determined. Jacqueline Diaz, NPR News. The NTSB says investigators are focusing on whether the plane touched down too late to stop safely and says the flight recorders are being taken to the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C. for evaluation. Canada's retaliatory tariffs are now in effect. The counter-terrorists went into effect just after midnight eastern time. And our Canada's response to the 50 percent tariffs, President Trump announced this summer on a wide range of Canadian imports.

The Canadian tariffs impact everything from steel to cheese. On Monday, President Trump warned on social media that he may prohibit Canadian jet manufacturer Bombardier from selling in the United States unless a company builds its jets in the U.S. President Trump's son-in-law non-voy, Jared Kushner, is defending the stalled peace plan for Gaza, calling the territory, in his words, a former war zone that's now flooded with aid. He also took aim at Israel's rejection of the plan. Here's M.P.R. P. Sia Petrauri reporting. Hamas has signed on to Trump's plan to decommission weapons alongside a phased Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. But Israel's Prime Minister has rejected that plan.

And Israel's military still launches attacks in Gaza despite a ceasefire. Palestinian health officials say a six-year-old was killed in an airstrike Sunday on her way to school. While on a visit to Ukraine Sunday, Kushner said this about Israel's policies in Gaza. We agree with them on the end state. They just have a crazy election, and that makes them a little irrational in certain regards. But we're very determined and we're working through these things. Kushner, meanwhile, touted conditions in Gaza, saying it now has one of the the world's lowest malnutrition rates. UNICEF reports a more complex picture, with one out of

every eight kids under five stunted for malnutrition. Ayabotrawi, NPR News, Dubai. Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon are fueling concern about a renewed Israeli military campaign against Iran-backed Hezbollah. Lebanon's health ministry says Israeli air strikes on a village killed at least a dozen people on Monday, including two children. The strikes came despite a U.S. brokered truce. This is NPR. Hawaii is battening down. The National Hurricane Center is warning of dangerous conditions because of Hurricane Lull, which is expected to pass just west of Nihau overnight. Forecasters say Lull will dump major rains across Hawaii and that floods, mudslides, tornadoes, and dangerous rip currents are among the dangers. Hundreds of Burundian nationals flock to their country's embassy in Kenya Monday, following a directive by Kenya's president that all foreign small-scale traders, in the East African nation to close their businesses.

Michael Koloki has more. Groups of mostly youthful Burundians formed cues outside their embassy in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, seeking travel documents to return to their country. Just days ago, Kenya's President William Ruto said all foreign nationals running small-scale businesses in the country should close shop beginning this week. Those who support the move say it's about enforcing work permit rules.

Critics say it's an attempt to shift blame for Kenya's economic woes. Robert Kiberenge, who lives here in Nairobi, opposes the directive. According to a 2024, U.N. report, more than a billion foreign migrants reside in Kenya. For NPR news, I'm Michael Koluki in Nairobi. The alleged ringleader of one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in U.S. history has a plea hearing in Washington, D.C. Tuesday.

22-year-old Malone Lamb of Singapore is expected to plead guilty to duping a stranger out of Bitcoin worth more than $240 million. The case has already led to guilty pleased by several co-conspirators. This is NPR.