Name the drone was spotted by 2 different members of my staff and so is it we had to close the runway for movements since then the drone is a paid and dissipate indicating dissipates police are still searching for the drone operator some 100000 airline passengers may be affected officials say it may take days for flights to recover this is n.p.r. . The Senate has approved a bill that would make lynching a federal hate crime it was sponsored by Democrats Harris of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey and South Carolina Republican Tim Scott Harris says Congress has failed 200 times previously to pass anti-lynching legislation she knows lynching was an instrument of terror and intimidation in American history Illinois attorney general has released a report on clergy sexual abuse in his state from member station in Springfield Sam gun club reports the attorney general revealed hundreds of new allegations Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says her office has been investigating the
Traded political parties and all preparing acts of violence in the capital and so they suspended the campaign in Kinshasa and this announcement was made just hour ahead of the scheduled meeting for the opposition candidates Malton site You Tube but thousands of supporters were present at the location where the meeting was scheduled and that huge team believe that this announcement was an attempt to stop him from campaigning Well news from the b.b.c. . Uganda has stepped up efforts to screen for possible cases of Ebola spreading across the border from the Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of the elections there on Sunday Catherine behind a hunger reports community surveillance teams in Uganda have intensified their monitoring of Ebola cases more medical screening materials like the monitors are being sent to border areas the by the outbreak centered on Benny town in eastern d.r. C. Has been hard to contain because of rebel activity in the area Ugandan and World Health Organization off
Interest rates today N.P.R. s Emily Sullivan reports Fed officials have signaled they re ready to raise the key borrowing rate to the highest level in a decade a range from 2.25 percent to 2.5 percent the decision influences rates on all kinds of borrowing from home mortgages to credit cards since the Fed last raised rates in September the job market has remained strong with unemployment at the lowest level in nearly 50 years growth clocked in strong in the 3rd quarter but a few troubling economic signals have emerged the stock market has tumbled sharply in recent months amid ongoing trade tensions between the United States and China and auto and home sales have fallen Emily Sullivan n.p.r. News Washington Google is facing a complaint by several consumer and privacy groups N.P.R. s Jasmine gars reports they allege some of Google s apps are harmful to children Google s Play Store has a section for family where Android users can buy apps that are deemed safe for kids but the complaint a
Jolie n.p.r. News Rome hard to believe but it was 50 years ago this month that NASA launched its 1st flight to the moon on December 21st 1968 Apollo Astronaut Frank Borman Jim Lovell and Bill Anders orbiting the moon in what is still considered among the space agency s boldest and most dangerous missions ever NASA was able to put together the moon orbit in just 4 months Assad to beat the then Soviet Union photo taken by Anders of the earth rising above the lunar landscape remains with the most iconic space pictures of all time crude oil futures continued their plunge oil is down more than 7 percent today to end the session at 4624 barrel I m Jack Speer n.p.r. News in Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include Subaru with their Subaru share the love event now through January 2nd details on the not for profit organizations that it supports are at Subaru dot com slash share love it s what makes a Subaru a Subaru. Good afternoon to 6 minutes past
States all closed more than 2 percent down it was the 2nd successive trading day that s the main Wall Street index the Dow Jones registered a 2 percent fall analysts say it reflects concerns about slowing economic growth. A u.n. Brokered ceasefire in Yemen has got off to a shaky start with fighting breaking out in the port of hard data shortly after it was due to have begun Martin patience reports just minutes after this cease fire was supposed to come into facts reports say there were sporadic clashes between the who the rebels and pro-government forces and parts of who they that but overnight the fighting appears to have subsided 8 people are now saying the city is relatively quiet this cease fire agreement was fresh the noms last week at a peace conference in Sweden but I had to be delayed by sad for all days because of fierce fighting the Saudi backed jam in the government and the rebels which are supported by Iran both say they are not committed to the truce Martin patients repor