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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. The Pentagon says it's cutting ties with Harvard University. NPR's Shondalese Duster reports officials are accusing the Ivy League school of promoting anti-American ideals.
Defense Secretary Pete Hexef says the Pentagon is ending all professional military education. certificate programs, and fellowships with Harvard University. Heksev, who received a master's degree from Harvard but later denounced it, said in a video posted to social media that many officers received, quote, radical ideologies that do not improve our fighting ranks.
For too long, this department has sent our best and brightest officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our warrior class. Instead, too many of our officers came back looking too much like Harvard.
Hexef says service members currently enrolled at the university will be able to finish their studies. Shondalese Duster, NPR News.
In a new message posted to social media, Today Show anchor Savannah Guthrie appealed directly to whoever is holding her mother. She appeared in the video with her siblings. We received your message and we understand.
We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.
Investigators have been searching for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie since she disappeared from her home in Tucson, Arizona last week. Police have not released many details, but say the circumstances suggest she was abducted. It was a devastating moment at the Winter Olympics in Cortina, Italy today after American skier Lindsey Vonn crashed in the women's downhill competition. She spun out of control early in her run, landing hard. NPR's Brian Mann reports she was airlifted off the course by a helicopter.
Roughly 13 seconds into a run, Vaughn appeared to catch her arm on a gate, then launched into the air on the first jump of the course. She twisted awkwardly and landed hard, her skis tangling underneath her before coming to a rest. The cheering crowd went silent as rescue personnel raced to her side. She was tended to on the snow for more than 10 minutes before being lifted from the mountain by a rescue helicopter Vaughn, age 41, was attempting a stunning comeback in these Olympics, but in the final pre-games race late last month, she tore her ACL. Still, she had successfully completed two training runs in the days leading up to this race. Brian Mann, NPR News, Milan.
Vaughn's teammate Breezy Johnson went on to take the gold in the women's downhill. She became the second American woman in 16 years to win the Olympic gold medal in downhill skiing after Lindsey Vaughn's Vancouver win in 2010. This is NPR News. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet with President Trump in Washington this week as the U.S. continues talks with Iran. The meeting comes after Iran's foreign minister threatened U.S. military bases in the region following indirect discussions in Oman. Netanyahu's office says Israel wants any agreement to address Iran's nuclear program, its ballistic missiles and its support for armed groups in the region. Exit polls show that Japan's first female prime minister and her ruling coalition scoring a decisive victory in snap elections.
NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports that official results are expected early Monday morning in Japan.
Japan's public broadcaster NHK's exit polls show Prime Minister Sanae Takeuchi and her ruling Liberal Democratic Party securing a standalone majority in the lower house of parliament. At present, Takeuchi's coalition has a narrow majority in the lower house while the opposition controls the upper house. If, as the exit polls suggest is possible, she gets a two-thirds majority, that would enable her to override upper house opposition to her bills. The results represent a comeback for the LDP, which has suffered two electoral defeats in a row. Takeuchi could take the results as a mandate to pursue her conservative agenda, including boosting defense spending.
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