NPR News: 03-08-2023 6AM ET
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🗓️ 8 March 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington on Corvac Olman, Mexican authorities say it appears likely |
| 0:05.4 | that four Americans kidnapped in Northern Mexico were simply in the wrong place at the |
| 0:10.1 | wrong time. |
| 0:11.5 | NPR's Adapurral to reports two Americans were found dead, two others are back in the |
| 0:15.7 | U.S., and one Mexican has been arrested. |
| 0:18.6 | At a press conference, the Attorney General for the State of Tamalipas, Irving Barrios |
| 0:22.3 | Mojica, says the four Americans drove into Mexico at 9.18 a.m. and by 11.45, Gunmen |
| 0:29.1 | had opened fire on their white minivan. |
| 0:31.5 | It all seems like it was a confusion. |
| 0:33.9 | Barrios Mojica says one of the Americans was in Mexico for a cosmetic surgery procedure, |
| 0:38.7 | and the group got caught in the crossfire, likely between rival drug cartels. |
| 0:43.6 | The two Americans who survived are now back in the U.S. at a hospital in Brownsville, |
| 0:47.8 | and Mexican authorities say the investigation continues. |
| 0:51.0 | Most homicides in Mexico go unsolved, and to date, there are more than 100,000 Mexicans |
| 0:56.5 | who are missing. |
| 0:57.5 | Adapralta, in Pairnews, Mexico City. |
| 1:00.2 | The Justice Department is suing to block JetBlue's purchase of rival spirit airlines. |
| 1:05.2 | Attorney General Marik Garland claims the merger will wreck Spirit Airlines' unique business |
| 1:10.2 | model of disrupting the airline industry and will erase ultra-low prices for airline |
| 1:15.4 | passengers. |
| 1:16.6 | As outlined in the complaint, if the acquisition is approved, JetBlue plans to abandon |
| 1:22.5 | Spirit's business model, remove seats from Spirit's planes, and charge Spirit's customers |
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