NPR News: 12-09-2024 5PM EST
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| 0:19.3 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. |
| 0:23.9 | Police said they have identified a strong person of interest in the killing of United |
| 0:28.7 | Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. |
| 0:31.4 | The only say 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was found with a ghost gun that matches the one |
| 0:36.3 | used last week to kill Thompson. |
| 0:38.5 | They also say they found a fake ID and a document indicating a possible motive, describing, quote, ill-will toward corporate America. |
| 0:46.3 | Sydney Roach of member station WPSU has more from Altoona, Pennsylvania, where the man was taken into custody, about 230 miles southwest of New York City. |
| 0:54.5 | Corporal August Stickle is with the Altoona City Police Department. |
| 0:57.6 | Today at 9.14 a.m., Altuna police officers were dispatched to a McDonald's restaurant |
| 1:02.8 | for reports of a mail matching the description of the United Healthcare CEO murder suspect. |
| 1:08.3 | Sickle says officers arrested the man on unrelated charges. |
| 1:11.4 | The Altoona Police Department is cooperating with local, state, and federal agencies. |
| 1:16.0 | For NPR news, I'm Sydney Roach in Altoona, Pennsylvania. |
| 1:18.9 | The situation in Syria remains chaotic after the dramatic downfall over the weekend of the country's authoritarian leader, President Bashal Assad. |
| 1:27.5 | Israel, after fighting wars on multiple fronts, is concerned about unrest there as varying |
| 1:32.2 | factions seek to fill a power vacuum that could spill over into its territory. |
| 1:36.9 | Israel also views it as an opportunity to disrupt Iran's ability to smuggle weapons through the country |
| 1:41.7 | to the militant group Hezbollah. |
| 1:43.7 | Assad flew to Moscow, which has long ties with Damascus dating country to the militant group Hezbollah, Assad flew to Moscow, |
| 1:44.7 | which has long ties with Damascus dating back to the Soviet era. |
| 1:48.9 | President Joe Biden is designating a new national monument in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, |
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