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What happened during the Secret Service incident at Mar-a-Lago?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. U.S. Secret Service agents shot and killed a man entering President Trump's private club in Palm Beach, Florida, early this morning. Officials say the man breached the security perimeter of Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun. NPR's Luke Garrett reports Trump was not in Florida, but in Washington, D.C. at the time.
U.S. Secret Service said a man in his early 20s unlawfully entered the secure perimeter at Mar-a-Lago. Officials said the man was carrying a shotgun and a fuel can. Secret Service agents and a deputy with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office confronted the man and asked him to drop his weapons. Officials said the man raised his gun in a shooting position. Agents and officers then shot and killed him. He died at the scene. No agents or officers were injured, and officials said no Secret Service protectees were present at the shooting. Luke Garrett, NPR News.
Fourteen Arab and Muslim-majority countries are condemning a remark by U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. He said Israel has a biblical right to take over land in other Middle Eastern countries. As NPR's Daniel Estrin reports.
Talk show host Tucker Carlson asked Ambassador Huckabee, who has also served as a pastor, about the Bible, in which God promises Abraham land from the Nile to the Euphrates River. and whether Israel has a right to lands in Arab countries. Huckabee said, It would be fine if they took it all.
Huckabee also said, They're not asking to go back to take all of that, but they are asking to at least take the land that they now occupy, they now live in, they now own legitimately.
Fourteen Arab and Muslim-majority countries, including U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar, condemned Huckabee's remark and said he seemed to endorse Israeli control of lands in Arab countries and the occupied West Bank. The U.S. embassy said there was no change in U.S. policy. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
Tens of millions are under blizzard warnings as the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic brace for heavy snow from a winter storm. That includes Connecticut, where the governor has declared a state of emergency. Chris Polanski of Connecticut Public Radio has more.
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont says this snowstorm will be worse than one last month that dumped nearly 20 inches on parts of the state.
This is not our first snowstorm. We're in New England, but this is going to be a bad one. Probably the worst storm we've seen since 2013.
State Emergency Management Director William Turner agrees. It is going to be a very dangerous storm. We're looking at a multi-hazard event. We're not only talking heavy wet snow, but also the potential for coastal flooding and very high winds. It's been many years since the entire state was under a blizzard warning like we're under now.
State officials are asking residents to stay off the roads. Commercial travel has been banned. They also say to prepare for widespread power outages that could last for days. For NPR News, I'm Chris Polanski in Hartford, Connecticut.
And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. An artifact from the Battle of the Alamo is being restored. Texas Public Radio's Jerry Clayton has more from San Antonio.
The cannon was originally discovered in 1852 near the site of the Alamo. The owner, Samuel Maverick, was a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Colby Lanham is senior researcher and historian for the Alamo. I was kind of skeptical, if I'm being honest. The man offering to donate the artifact was a direct descendant of Maverick. Yeah, I about fell over. I think he could have knocked me over with a feather. I was so excited. I had wrote about that cannon in my master's thesis. The cannon was located on a ranch near Corpus Christi and was previously at another ranch near San Antonio, where it was used as the base of a birdbath. The three-foot-long, 90-pound cannon is being restored at Texas A&M University.
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