A top Hamas leader is killed in Lebanon
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🗓️ 3 January 2024
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A top Hamas leader was killed in a strike in Lebanon. USA TODAY Domestic Security Correspondent Josh Meyer puts the move in context.
Donald Trump sues Maine's secretary of state for disqualifying him from the state's primary ballot.
USA TODAY Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page looks at what polling tells us about who Trump supporters want as a running mate.
Harvard President Claudine Gay has announced her resignation.
A major snowstorm may again hit the East Coast after years without one in some major cities.
CORRECTION: This episode has been corrected to say that Hamas leader Saleh al-Aruri was killed in an apparent Israeli strike, outside Beirut, according to Lebanon's state-run News Agency and the Hezbollah-linked Al Mayadeen media outlet. Israel has not yet commented on the alleged strike, and the Israel Defense Forces had no immediate confirmation when asked by USA TODAY.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Wednesday January 3rd 2024. This is the |
| 0:17.8 | excerpt. Today with the killing of the Hamas leader in Lebanon might mean for regional |
| 0:26.8 | tensions, plus Trump sues over the decision to disqualify him from Maine's |
| 0:31.3 | ballot and we look at who Trump supporters want as a |
| 0:34.1 | running mate according to recent polling. Sala al-Ruri was killed in an |
| 0:39.6 | apparent Israeli strike outside Beirut according to Lebanon's state-run news agency and the Hezbollah linked |
| 0:45.4 | al-Mayadeen media outlet. I spoke with USA Today domestic security correspondent Josh Meyer |
| 0:51.2 | about the strike and its significance in the region. |
| 0:54.0 | Josh as always thanks for a put on the excerpt today. |
| 0:57.0 | My pleasure Taylor. |
| 0:58.0 | So as a refresher I know we've discussed him briefly on the show before but who is Sala Al-Aruri? So Sala Al-Rori who was |
| 1:06.3 | believed to be about 57 years old was a top leader of Hamas the US designated |
| 1:11.2 | terrorist organization he was a leader of his political bureau |
| 1:14.5 | or the deputy of it and was considered by many |
| 1:17.0 | to be the de facto leader of Hamas military wing |
| 1:20.3 | in the West Bank. |
| 1:21.6 | He traveled widely in recent years years and as we wrote in a story in |
| 1:25.5 | October he's believed to be the key link between Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran |
| 1:30.8 | that are believed part of this axis of resistance against Israel. |
| 1:34.0 | Josh, how was he killed and what do we know as of now? |
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