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It began dumping rain on the islands this week.

The Justice Department is moving to dismiss charges against an Army veteran deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan who set fire to an American flag near the White House last year.

Jay Carey of Arden, North Carolina, was arrested in August after he set fire to a flag on the same day that President Trump signed an executive order requiring the Justice Department to prosecute people for flag burning.

DOJ moved to dismiss two misdemeanors on Friday.

France is returning a sacred drum to Ivory Coast, stolen during the West African nation's colonial era.

The return part of a near decade-long reparation effort, as Michael Koloke reports.

Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.

An airstrike has been carried out on the U.S.

Embassy in Baghdad.

The attack overnight hit a radar installation.

According to Iraqi security sources, no casualties have been reported.

As NPR's Jane Araf reports.

To Amsterdam now, where a Jewish school has been hit with an explosion.

Terry Schultz reports the attack came a day after a fire at a synagogue in nearby Rotterdam.

The attack is in Amsterdam.

Follow the Thursday attack on a synagogue in Michigan.

At a Friday evening press conference, the FBI said the man who rammed his vehicle into the synagogue in the Detroit area killed himself.

None of the children and staff inside were hurt, but a security officer was hit by the vehicle and knocked unconscious.

TSA officers have now gone without their first full paycheck.

The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down for a month now as lawmakers struggle to break a stalemate over the agency's controversial immigration policies.