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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Vice President. J.D. vance spoke at Turning Point USA's yearly conference in Phoenix on Sunday. It was the first national conference the young voter organization has hosted since since its founder, right wing activist Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed in September. NPR's Elena Moore reports.
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Vice President Vance used his speech as a call to action, alluding to recent intraparty riffs.
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We have far more important work to.
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Do than canceling each other. We have got to build.
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It comes after conservative commentator Ben Shapiro called out several right wing media personalities for entertaining conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's death death and singled out Tucker Carlson for his recent interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Carlson later disputed those claims and said he's not anti Semitic. But the pushback comes as leaders deal with a larger fight over spreading misinformation and amplifying people with anti Semitic views. Elena Moore, NPR News, Phoenix.
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Israel's security cabinet has approved the recognition of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank. The this latest move comes days after the United nations said the expansion of Israeli settlements had reached its highest level in eight years. The BBC's Shaima Khalil reports.
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This decision brings the total number of settlements approved over the past three years to 69, according to the Israeli finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who proposed the move alongside the defense minister, Israel Katz. The approvals come just days after the United nations said settlement expansion had reached its highest level since 2017. Israeli settlements in the occupied west bank are considered illegal under international law. Mr. Smotrich, a settler himself and a vocal advocate of expansion, said the decision was about blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state.
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That's the BBC's Shaima Khalil with our reports. Trump administration officials say the Coast Guard is in pursuit of another ship in the Caribbean that it Sundays is violating U.S. sanctions. Officials say the vessel is operating under what's called a false flag and is included in a judicial seizure order. It's not clear, though, what ship the US Is pursuing. The US has already seized two ships involved with oil deliveries from Venezuela, all as part of a pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Many legal experts say the detentions of the oil carrying vessels violate international law. Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has sent National Guard troops to King county, where river levees failed last week and led to the flooding of hundreds of homes. Ferguson says the troops will be patrolling the levees and looking for other problems. This natural disaster that we are facing as a state and that we continue to go through is truly historic in nature. In California, meanwhile, evacuation orders are in place for some parts of Shasta county in the northern part of that state because of major flooding along the Yuba river there. You're listening to NPR News. Avatar fire and ash is blazing a little less fiercely than expected at movie box offices this weekend. NPR's Bob Mondello has our details.