WORLD Radio News - WORLD Radio News: 12-22-25 (2/3)

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

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With World Radio News, I'm Kent Covington. The Trump administration is suspending the lottery green card program after a Portuguese national who entered the country through that program allegedly carried out multiple fatal shootings. Authorities say Claudio Manuel Navis Valenti this month killed two students and injured nine others at Rhode Island's Brown University and separately shot an MIT professor. State Department Deputy spokesman Thomas Pickett.

see something like this happened, we need to make sure that we react appropriately, and part of that is examining the visa procedures in place. And while we're examining those procedures, we need to pause that program. Police found the suspected shooter dead in a New Hampshire storage unit after a days-long manhunt. Investigators say Nevis Valente was a former PhD student at Brown University and that he engaged in extensive planning and surveillance before the attack. The motive is still unknown. In Australia, a week after 15 people were fatally shot at a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach in Sydney, thousands of people gathered for the light over darkness vigil on Sunday.

David Asip is president of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies. To those who were injured, some of whom are here in the audience tonight and many others who are watching online, we are praying for you and for your complete and swift recovery. The Premier of New South Wales, Chris Menz, also addressed the survivors and loved ones of those killed. We grieve with you and with humility. I acknowledge that the government's highest duty is to protect its citizens, and we did not do that one week ago. A father and son are accused of carrying out the terror attack. The father was fatally shot while the son was critically wounded.

They reportedly pledged allegiance to ISIS prior to the attack. Federal aviation investigators are still trying to. to figure out why a business jet carrying retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffel and six others crashed in North Carolina. The Zena 550 apparently had mechanical issues after takeoff and pilots turned the plane around and tried to land it again. NTSB investigator Michael Graham. The NTSB is aware of one brief text from a passenger on board the aircraft to a family member that read, and I quote, emergency landing. Graham said multiple indicators suggest the plane was stable on approach.

Configured for landing with the landing lights on, but the aircraft was coming in low. That information is consistent with the debris field. Our team continues to survey. The jet hid light poles and trees before erupting into flames Thursday, killing everyone on board. Investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder but have not yet identified the lead pilot. For World Radio, I'm Kent Covington. For more sound journalism grounded in facts and biblical truth,

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