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NPR News: 01-07-2025 8PM EST
Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMayhill says the Cybertruck driver, Matthew Livelsberger, used artificial intelligence to learn how much explosives he'd need and where to buy them. McMayhill says it's still unclear why he chose Las Vegas.
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NPR News: 01-07-2025 8PM EST
Authorities also released surveillance footage showing Livelsberger pouring racing fuel on the truck, which they say contained 60 pounds of explosives that ignited after he shot himself. Police say the decorated 37-year-old active-duty Green Beret had no prior record and hadn't been considered a threat. Kirk Sigler, NPR News.
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NPR News: 04-02-2025 6PM EDT
House Republicans already inserted language into budget rules that could make it easier to sell federal land. And now as lawmakers look for more revenue to offset President Trump's tax cuts, the controversy is again heating up, even as specifics of any plan are murky.
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NPR News: 04-02-2025 6PM EDT
Republicans from Western states where the federal government owns half or more of the land have long tried to wrest control of it in favor of more mining and logging, or lately home construction. Yet some in the GOP from states where hunting and hiking access is a political force have introduced bipartisan legislation to prevent any sales. This latest budget controversy follows the U.S.
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NPR News: 04-02-2025 6PM EDT
Supreme Court declining last fall to hear a challenge by the state of Utah over federal control of land in that state. Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Boise.
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NPR News: 01-13-2025 8PM EST
Utah's case was always considered a long shot. A litany of prior court rulings has upheld the federal government's right to own and manage federal public lands in the West. But the current court's willingness to overturn precedent has had legal experts saying Utah could have a shot.
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NPR News: 01-13-2025 8PM EST
State Republican leaders who filed the suit say they're disappointed, but add they think federal land managers under the incoming Trump administration will be more favorable to the concerns of locals. Coal and oil and gas companies have accused the Biden administration of being too restrictive.
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NPR News: 01-13-2025 8PM EST
Environmental groups say the Supreme Court's refusal will ensure that federal public lands in the West aren't sold off to developers. Kirk Sigler, NPR News.
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NPR News: 05-08-2025 5AM EDT
The amendment authorizes the sale of more than 10,000 acres of federal lands. Most of the proposed sale appears to be aimed at building housing outside Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada, and St. George, Utah, which Republican Celeste Malloy represents.
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NPR News: 05-08-2025 5AM EDT
Malloy is related to the rancher Cliven Bundy, whose family led armed standoffs over control of federal lands. Democrats say the amendment that still requires a full House vote is part of a broader far-right plan for a wholesale transfer of federal public lands. Kirk Sigler, NPR News.
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NPR News: 06-01-2025 6PM EDT
The first bridge collapsed as a packed passenger train was passing underneath in Russia's Bryansk region overnight. causing debris and several trucks to fall into the train carriages below. Images shared on social media showed stunned passengers trying to climb out of the wreckage in the dark.
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NPR News: 06-01-2025 6PM EDT
Meanwhile, a separate rail bridge collapsed in the neighboring Kursk region several hours later, derailing a freight train and injuring the driver. Russia's investigative committee said it was investigating both incidents as potential acts of terrorism. and several prominent Russian politicians were quick to blame Ukraine.
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NPR News: 06-01-2025 6PM EDT
The incidents come ahead of plans for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul Monday. Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow.
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NPR News: 03-01-2025 4AM EST
I want to emphasize to everyone listening that that vaccination remains the best defense against this highly contagious and deadly disease.
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NPR News: 04-18-2025 3PM EDT
In an interview yesterday on All Things Considered, Van Hollen said soldiers had initially prevented him from reaching the prison.
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NPR News: 04-18-2025 3PM EDT
Later in the day, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, posted on X that Van Hollen had met with Abrego Garcia and said that he, quote, gets the honor of staying in El Salvador's custody. The senator then posted a picture of himself and Abrego Garcia sitting at a table.
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NPR News: 04-18-2025 3PM EDT
Also yesterday, a federal appeals court declined the Trump administration's request to lift a judge's order that they help bring Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. Ryland Barton, NPR News.
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NPR News: 01-09-2025 8PM EST
I'm standing here on Pacific Coast Highway. It's really this eerie smell, among other things. You can smell the sea over here, the waves crashing, and then it's just this sulfury, charred smell of burning rubble and vegetation. I'm even looking at a fire truck trying to save a house right in front of me here.
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NPR News: 01-09-2025 8PM EST
Doesn't look like they're gonna do it, but embers have been still flying in and catching things on fire. Up and down this highway, hotel over to my right is totally burned. I can see in the distance the Getty Villa, the famous museum. It appears to be intact, although the vegetation all the way up right around it is burned.