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Chapter 1: What are the highlights of President Trump's upcoming State of the Union address?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly. President Trump delivers his State of the Union address tonight to a joint session of Congress, though some Democratic lawmakers have said they plan to boycott the speech. The president is expected to highlight the U.S. economy, trade and tariffs, as well as immigration enforcement and efforts to convince Iran to give up its nuclear program.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger is scheduled to give the Democratic response. Ahead of the president's State of the Union address, the House is expected to vote on an aviation safety bill. It was prompted by last year's deadly mid-air collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Washington, D.C. NPR's Joel Rose has more.
The Rotor Act, as it's known, would require wider use of a safety system known as ADS-B, which transmits an aircraft's location. Federal safety investigators say that could have prevented the mid-air collision of a U.S. Army helicopter and a passenger jet that killed 67 people last year. The Senate approved the bill unanimously, and it has support from families of the crash victims.
But it faces headwinds in the House, where some powerful Republican committee leaders have proposed their own bipartisan bill. The Pentagon also has concerns. After supporting the Rotar Act last year, the Pentagon now says it could create, quote, unresolved budgetary burdens and operational security risks. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
The National Transportation Safety Board has blamed the collision on multiple system-wide failures, including equipment and human error. Three feet of snow was being reported in areas of Rhode Island and Massachusetts from a powerful nor'easter. Much of New York and New Jersey received about two feet of snow, as Bruce Convisor reports.
Air travel ground to a halt Sunday and Monday, but today more than half the scheduled flights departing from Newark Liberty, JFK, and LaGuardia are expected to take off. Rail travel on New Jersey Transit is expected to resume today, but with limited service. Buses will be running again. The blizzard was also packing strong winds, including gusts topping 50 mph.
Those winds brought down trees and snapped power lines. Overnight, more than 40,000 remained without electricity. And nearly 450 schools across the state will remain closed today or reopen late. For NPR News, I'm Bruce Kahnweiser in Greenbrook, New Jersey.
More than 250,000 homes and businesses are without power in Massachusetts this morning. Today marks four years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. More than a dozen senior European officials are in Kiev to show support to Ukraine, as commemorations are being held in numerous cities.
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Chapter 2: How is the aviation safety bill related to last year's mid-air collision?
So far, efforts by the U.S. and Europe to negotiate a ceasefire between Moscow and Kiev have been unsuccessful. This is NPR News from Washington. The 32-year-old son of slain Hollywood film director and actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in a Los Angeles courtroom. Nick Reiner is accused of killing his parents at their home in L.A.
's Brentwood neighborhood in December. He appeared in court yesterday behind security glass in an enclosed area. Reiner has been held without bond since his parents were stabbed to death. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for late April. The state of Maryland is suing the Department of Homeland Security.
It's seeking to block DHS from converting a large industrial warehouse in Williamsport into an immigrant detention facility. Scott Massione with member station WYPR has more.
Maryland's suing to halt the conversion of an 825,000 square foot warehouse into an ICE detention facility. Attorney General Anthony Brown says the White House is moving ahead with construction without required public input and environmental assessments.
A facility this size would generate nearly four times more wastewater than the site was designed for, risking sewage overflows on the property and backups throughout the surrounding community. Increased traffic, air quality impacts, and the burden of local emergency services were never assessed.
Brown also mentioned health risks, noting recent measles cases at a Texas detention center. The facility would hold as many as 1,500 people. For NPR News, I'm Scott Mascione in Baltimore.
Wall Street is coming off a day of sharp losses. The Dow, the S&P, and the Nasdaq each lost more than 1%. I'm Dave Mattingly in Washington.
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