US to send 100 troops to operate anti-missile system in Israel
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🗓️ 14 October 2024
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The U.S. will send an anti-missile system to Israel, and the troops to operate it.
A Nevada man was arrested with loaded firearms, multiple passports bearing different names and an unregistered vehicle at a checkpoint ahead of a Donald Trump rally. Who is he?
USA TODAY Congress & Campaigns Reporter Riley Beggin discusses uncommitted Democratic voters and how they could impact next month's election.
USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Bart Jansen talks about how Donald Trump could fight to overturn election results if he were to lose.
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday, October 14th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:18.9 | excerpt. Today, the latest from the Middle East |
| 0:24.4 | as the US plans to send a new anti-missile system to Israel |
| 0:27.9 | with limited US troops. |
| 0:29.7 | Plus a man has been arrested near a Donald Trump rally with loaded firearms and multiple passports bearing different names. |
| 0:36.7 | And can voters who previously marked themselves as uncommitted still swing the presidential election. |
| 0:43.0 | The U.S. said yesterday it will send an advanced anti-missile system to Israel, |
| 0:48.0 | along with the U.S. troops to operate it. |
| 0:50.0 | President Joe Biden said he was sending the system to defend Israel and about a hundred troops will be deployed as part of the effort according to multiple reports. |
| 0:59.0 | The move comes to help bolster Israel's air defenses following missile attacks by Iran. That country's foreign |
| 1:04.8 | minister warned yesterday that the United States was putting the lives of |
| 1:08.1 | US troops at risk. Iran earlier this month fired ballistic missiles at Israel after Israel assassinated Hassan Nasrilah, leader of the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in an air strike in Beirut last month. |
| 1:20.4 | Meanwhile Israel continues to strike Lebanon, killing at least 15 people in recent strikes and injuring at least two UN peacekeepers. |
| 1:28.0 | Over the weekend, Israel also ordered the evacuation of 23 southern Lebanese towns as their escalating conflict. the had fired nearly 320 projectiles from Lebanon into Israel on Saturday. |
| 1:47.0 | A Las Vegas man was arrested with loaded firearms, multiple passports bearing different names, |
| 1:55.2 | and an unregistered vehicle at a checkpoint ahead of a rally by former President Donald Trump |
| 2:00.4 | in Southern California on Saturday, according to officials. |
| 2:04.0 | Trump was never in danger, the Secret Service, the FBI, and the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a joint statement. |
| 2:11.0 | The arrest comes after two assassination attempts against Trump in recent months. |
| 2:15.2 | The 49 year old man, Vem Miller, was associated with a far right movement called the sovereign |
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