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As we speak’s prime tales
Federal investigators have retrieved the cockpit voice and flight knowledge recorders from the American Airways jet that collided with an Military Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday evening. The collision occurred mid-air over the Potomac River because the jet tried to land at Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport. All 67 individuals on each plane have been killed. This is the newest.
On this picture supplied by the U.S. Coast Guard, wreckage is seen within the Potomac River close to Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 in Washington.
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- 🎧 It’s unclear how the 2 plane that have been presupposed to go at a protected distance ended up in the identical place on the similar time, NPR’s Frank Langfitt tells Up First. Investigators will use the regional jet’s black bins to look at the ultimate conversations within the cockpit, the airplane’s efficiency and knowledge factors similar to its altitude proper earlier than the collision. Authorities will even want the recorder from the Military Black Hawk, which continues to be within the river, to check. Federal investigators emphasised that they’d watch out to verify information earlier than releasing them and {that a} preliminary report must be accomplished in 30 days.
- ➡️ At the least a dozen elite determine skaters, coaches and their members of the family have been aboard the airplane.
- ➡️ Crowded airspace has been a concern on the D.C.-area airport. Greater than 23,000 flight operations passed off there every month final 12 months.
- ➡️ This is what number of near-misses have occurred at Reagan Airport, in response to the FAA.
A push to limit immigration in Germany has erupted right into a fierce debate over the diploma to which a rustic ought to permit its excessive political components into mainstream politics. On the middle of the controversy is Friedrich Merz, the person who’s the frontrunner to grow to be Germany’s subsequent chancellor. Merz heads the Christian Democratic Union, a center-right get together that is forward within the polls.
- 🎧 The movement comes on the heels of latest lethal assaults dedicated by migrants, NPR’s Rob Schmitz says. Not one of the mainstream events have been excited by voting with Merz’s get together on the proposal, however the AfD, the Various for Germany get together, was. The AfD has advocated deporting all Germans with a migration background, some members use Nazi slogans and the get together is underneath home surveillance for the menace it poses to the nation’s democracy. Merz has now signaled he is open to cooperating with the AfD on the immigration movement.
Goal is scaling again its variety, fairness and inclusion efforts, a promise that appeared vital to the corporate headquartered the place the homicide of George Floyd in 2020 by a police officer set off waves of protests. With DEI initiatives underneath assault by the Trump administration, corporations similar to Walmart, McDonald’s and Meta have determined to curtail or eradicate these applications. With Goal falling in line, activists known as for a boycott of the shop. Nonetheless, Black enterprise house owners promoting merchandise at Goal say it might damage their enterprise. Morning Version host Michel Martin spoke to April Showers, founder and CEO of Afro Unicorn, whose merchandise embody attire, hair merchandise and books, are bought at Goal, about her ideas on the boycott and a attainable compromise for these taking part.
Deep dive
Hundreds of toes underground, in a laboratory northwest of Las Vegas, the U.S. conducts a few of its most delicate nuclear weapons analysis. Nuclear testing looks like a Chilly Struggle relic, however amid rising tensions, Russia, China and the U.S. are upgrading their testing services. The Nationwide Nuclear Safety Administration, the civilian company sustaining America’s nuclear stockpile, allowed journalists, together with NPR, to tour a secretive laboratory.
- 💥 Within the early Nineteen Sixties, nuclear assessments went underground to guard individuals and the setting from the harmful radioactive fallout.
- 💥 The stockpile program, a technique to check nukes with out setting them off, consists of supercomputers on the labs used to conduct large-scale digital simulations of nuclear weapons from “button to growth.”
- 💥 Undertaking 2025, a conservative agenda revealed by the Heritage Basis, says the federal government ought to find a way “to conduct nuclear assessments in response to adversary nuclear developments if essential.”
This is a look contained in the lab.
Weekend picks
Citizen Sleeper 2’s android protagonist, in a scene from the sport’s trailer.
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Take a look at what NPR is watching, studying and listening to this weekend:
🍿 Motion pictures: In Presence, a household strikes right into a haunted home, however what units this movie aside is that it is advised from the ghost’s perspective.
📺 TV: Hospital drama The Pitt, starring Noah Wyle, takes components widespread to the medical style and mixes them with up to date interested by well being care and an creative episode construction.
📚 Books: As we welcome the 12 months of the Snake, listed here are two Lunar New 12 months romances so as to add to your to-read checklist.
🎵 Music: Jazz vocalist Christie Dashiell’s sophomore album, Journey in Black, earned her a Grammy nomination for the primary time. The music displays “the expansiveness of the Black expertise.”
🎮 Video games: Citizen Sleeper 2,out right now, places you within the sneakers of an android who’s escaped a dystopian company. The sci-fi sport grapples with trauma and communities in disaster.
🍚 Meals: Dumplings are a dish NPR readers simply cannot go with out for the Lunar New 12 months. This is a no-fuss Chinese language dumpling recipe you may attempt.
❓ Quiz: If this have been college, I’d have scored a B. I’ll take it. Do you assume you may obtain an “A”?
3 issues to know earlier than you go
English singer Marianne Faithfull in her Kensington flat in 1965.
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- British musician and actress Marianne Faithfull, whose 1964 model of “As Tears Go By” made her a music star, died yesterday on the age of 78.
- Brendan Carr, the newly appointed head of the Federal Communications Fee, has opened an investigation of NPR and PBS for allegedly operating commercials, which public broadcasting stations are prohibited from doing.
- The U.S. financial system grew at an annual price of two.3% in October, November and December of 2024 as customers ramped up their spending.
This text was edited by Obed Manuel.
