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Central Command that a U.S.

military refueling plane has gone down in western Iraq, killing four American service members.

Two other crew members have not been accounted for yet.

The Defense Secretary says that the new Iranian Supreme Leader, Majdaba Khamenei, is believed to be wounded and likely disfigured.

The United Kingdom's Defense Secretary says Iranian drone tactics bear the hallmark of Russian help.

British forces based in Iraq helped shoot down some Iranian drones yesterday, as NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from London.

The Department of Homeland Security is identifying Eamon Ghazali as the attacker who rammed his truck into a synagogue outside Detroit yesterday.

From member station WDET, Alex McLennan reports Ghazali was a naturalized U.S.

citizen from Lebanon.

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The FBI is also investigating a deadly shooting yesterday at Old Dominion University in southern Virginia as terrorism.

One person was killed and two others were wounded.

Authorities say the gunman was overpowered and found dead.

New federal drought data show much of the American West is now experiencing its lowest snowpack in history.

NPR's Kirk Siegler reports.

This comes as record heat is expected to bear down on the region next week.

Cuban officials say they've recently held talks with U.S.

officials.

Speaking today, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said the conversations have been geared toward finding solutions by way of dialogue to the bilateral differences between the countries.

President Trump has been saying Cuba's government could fall or there could be a friendly takeover of Cuba.