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Brady was Reagan's white house press secretary when John Hinckley, Jr tried to assassinate the president more than 33 years ago. Reagan was shot in the chest and 3 others were wounded. Brady was shot in the head and it let the rest of his life partially³ paralyzed, suffering from short-term memory loss, slurring⁴ speech and constant pain. He died earlier this week from a series of health issues at age of 73. Autopsy⁶ determined⁷ that the cause of the death was Brady's gunshot wound and its ensuing health problems. The attempted president assassin, John Hinckley, was found not guilty by reason of insanity⁸ and has lived in a Washington D.C. mental hospital. Richard Gonzales, NPR News. 

 

The second wave of US air strike has hit Islamic militant⁹ target in northern Iraq. The Pentagon says drone aircrafts attacked a mortar¹⁰ position, then F-18 fighter jets fired on a convoy¹¹ and another mortar position. Those attacks follows one this morning, in which laser-guided bombs were dropped on mobile artillery¹² target near the Kurdish regional capital, Arbil. 

 

Volkswagen is expecting a recall of minivan which have ignition switches can be bumped out of the wrong position. Michigan radio Tracy Simonton reports the move follows the massive recall by GM related to faulty ignition switches. 

Volkswagen recall includes 2009 and 2010 model year Routan mini vans. The mini vans were made by Chrysler which also recalled nearly 300,000 of its own mini vans for ignition switches defects. Michelle Carob was an auto⁵ trader. She says in appearance ignition switch recalls are getting more intention than others. In a case of Volkswagen recall, no accidents or injuries have been reported. 

"Nobody wants to get caught in the situation that GM has been caught in."

Carob says there's a danger consumers will stop paying attention to recalls because there are so many of them. She says the government may need to start calling attention to very urgent recalls, especially ones involving a risk of fire. For NPR News, I'm Tracy Simonton. 

 

General Motors is recalling an additional 310,000 vehicles. Most of them are sedan view SUVs. The auto maker¹³ says the key can be removed when ignitions are not in the off position. 

 

Oracle¹⁴ Corporation is filing a breach¹⁵ of contract suit against Oregon public plate health insurance exchange claiming it's using Oracle software despite 23 million dollars in dispute bills. The exchange called cover Oregon never launched to the general public. in the stage blamed Oracle. Governor John Kitzhaber is calling for a counter suit against Oracle. 

 

On Wall Street today, the Dow closed up 185 points. 

 

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The United Air of Arab Emirates National Airline has purchased the major stake in Italy's trouble-plagued fly carrier, Alitalia. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports the deal gives Etihad a foothold in European markets. 

Etihad bought 49% stake on Alitalia jetting 715 million dollars into their airline that rarely made a profit in its 68 years history. Announcing the deal, Etihad's CEO James Hogan said Alitalia is a strong airline but a poor business financially did need to be turn around. The deal took months of negotiation¹⁶ over debt restriction¹⁷, proposing job cut, and other issues that sparked intense opposition¹⁸ from Italian unions. The latest protest came from Alitalia ground staff which staged a wildcat strike this week that let thousands of passengers' suitcases on the ground. Sylvia Poggioli, NPR News, Rome. 

 

Hurricane Julio is losing steam as its burrows¹⁹ across the Pacific and forecasters now say Julio is likely to miss the Hawaii islands by about 200 miles. That's just fine with Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie, who says islands have taken a beating from tropical storm Iselle which proceeded the Julio. 

"Some locations have seen close to 50 inches of rain. I see as Iselle moves through with more rain comes down, the rivers are high as storms running faster."

And he says Hawaiians should remain vigilant²⁰. 

"Gusting²¹ winds and heavy rains is still to come. Do not be fool by the fact that they may appear to be a low right now."

Abercrombie is facing a political storm as well. His primary election is scheduled in Hawaii tomorrow. Poll show he's trailing his Democratic challenger. If he loses, he will be the first sitting governor in the state history to be ousted²² after one term. 

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