Chapter 1: What recent events did Vice President J.D. Vance address at the Turning Point USA conference?
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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Vice President J.D. Vance spoke at Turning Point USA's yearly conference in Phoenix on Sunday. It was the first national conference the Young Voter Organization has hosted since its founder, right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed in September. Empire's Elena Moore reports.
Vice President Vance used his speech as a call to action, alluding to recent intraparty rifts. We have far more important work to do than canceling each other.
Chapter 2: How has the Israeli government responded to recent settlement expansions in the West Bank?
We have got to build. It comes after conservative commentator Ben Shapiro called out several right-wing media personalities. for entertaining conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's death, and singled out Tucker Carlson for his recent interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
Carlson later disputed those claims and said he's not anti-Semitic, but the pushback comes as leaders deal with a larger fight over spreading misinformation and amplifying people with anti-Semitic views. Elena Moore, NPR News, Phoenix.
Chapter 3: What actions is the U.S. Coast Guard taking regarding ships violating sanctions?
Israel's security cabinet has approved the recognition of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank. This latest move comes days after the United Nations said the expansion of Israeli settlements had reached its highest level in eight years. The BBC's Shaima Khalil reports.
This decision brings the total number of settlements approved over the past three years to 69, according to the Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who proposed the move alongside the Defense Minister Israel Katz. The approvals come just days after the United Nations said settlement expansion had reached its highest level since 2017.
Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are considered illegal under international law. Mr Smotrich, a settler himself and a vocal advocate of expansion, said the decision was about blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Chapter 4: What natural disasters are currently impacting Washington and California?
That's the BBC's Shaima Khalil with our reports. Trump administration officials say the Coast Guard is in pursuit of another ship in the Caribbean that it says is violating U.S. sanctions. Officials say the vessel is operating under what's called a false flag and is included in a judicial seizure order. It's not clear, though, what ship the U.S. is pursuing. The U.S.
has already seized two ships involved with oil deliveries from Venezuela, all as part of a pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Many legal experts say the detentions of the oil-carrying vessels violate international law.
Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has sent National Guard troops to King County, where river levees failed last week and led to the flooding of hundreds of homes. Ferguson says the troops will be patrolling the levees and looking for other problems. This natural disaster that we are facing as a state and that we continue to go through is truly historic in nature.
In California, meanwhile, evacuation orders are in place for some parts of Shasta County in the northern part of that state because of major flooding along the Yuba River there.
Chapter 5: How is the new Avatar movie performing at the box office compared to its predecessor?
You're listening to NPR News. Avatar Fire and Ash is blazing a little less fiercely than expected at movie box offices this weekend. NPR's Bob Mondello has our details.
The Avatar prequel is definitely dominating the weekend at cinemas.
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But it's not hot enough to be setting records. At $88 million for its first three days in North America and another $257 million overseas, It's running more than 20% behind Avatar Way of Water two years ago. Second place finisher David, which tells the biblical story of David and Goliath, will take in $21 million, the highest opening ever for a faith-based animated film.
And Timothee Chalamet's Marty Supreme will easily set this year's record for per theater average, with more than $145,000 in ticket sales at each of its six theaters. Bob Mondello, NPR News.
Actor James Ransom has died. Ransom was best known for playing Ziggy Sobotka in the HBO series The Wire. He also had roles in The Black Phone and Black Phone 2, and he also appeared in other television programs, including in the detective series Bosch. The Los Angeles Medical Examiner's Office says he died of suicide. He was 46 years old.
Power has returned to most of the 130,000 businesses and homes affected by an outage in northern San Francisco overnight.
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Chapter 6: What recent news surrounds the death of actor James Ransom?
The outage began Saturday afternoon. Its cause is still under investigation, but a fire at an electrical substation contributed to the problem. The outage disrupted transit in the area and caused many shops and restaurants to shut down. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.