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--:-- Shea Stevens: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens.
--:-- Shea Stevens: President Trump touted his economic policies Wednesday while attending the American Business Forum in Miami.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Trump told top executives and other elites there that the U.S. economy is doing great. The stock market has set 40-time all-time record highs, and just recently record high, record high. All of them, all of the different exchanges.
--:-- Shea Stevens: GDP growth in the second quarter was an amazing, almost 4 percent.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Trump's comments came at a time when an increasing number of Americans are worried about their finances. He blamed the ongoing government shutdown on Democrats.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegsseff have given closed-door briefings on the growing U.S. military presence in the Caribbean.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The two officials have updated congressional leaders on U.S. military strikes on small boats in the Pacific and Caribbean. Two people were killed in the latest incident on Tuesday That brought to 66 the number of people killed in 16 U military strikes on alleged drug boats since September
--:-- Shea Stevens: Federal investigators say they've recovered flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the UPS cargo plane that crashed in Louisville.
--:-- Shea Stevens: At least 12 people died in Tuesday's mishap, including the UPS flight crew.
--:-- Curtis Tate: From member station WEKU, Curtis Tate has more.
--:-- Curtis Tate: The National Transportation Safety Board says the plane's voice and data recorders both sustained fire damage in the crash.
--:-- Curtis Tate: NTSB member Todd Inman says investigators won't know the condition of their contents until they are sent to a laboratory in Washington for analysis.
--:-- Curtis Tate: Inman also says, according to airport security footage, the left engine became detached from the plane while it was attempting to take off.
--:-- Curtis Tate: That correlates with the video that we've seen of it detaching from the airplane while it is in flight.
--:-- Curtis Tate: Inman says the debris field stretches half a mile.
--:-- Curtis Tate: For NPR News, I'm Curtis Tate in Richmond, Kentucky.
--:-- Allison Sherry: In Colorado, the man who's accused of firebombing a group of peaceful pro-Israel demonstrators has pleaded not guilty in state court.
--:-- Allison Sherry: Colorado Public Radio's Allison Sherry has the story.
--:-- Allison Sherry: Authorities say that 46 Mohammed Suleiman had told them he planned the June 1st attack for a year and wanted to use a firearm but was denied purchase of one because of his immigration status Instead he used Molotov cocktails
--:-- Allison Sherry: Suleiman pleaded not guilty to more than 100 state charges related to that attack on a crowd gathered on a pedestrian mall in Boulder.
--:-- Allison Sherry: Fifteen people were injured, including one elderly woman who died later from her injuries.
--:-- Allison Sherry: Those charges include first-degree murder and attempted murder.
--:-- Allison Sherry: Suleiman also faces federal hate crimes charges.
--:-- Allison Sherry: Both trials are planned for next year.
--:-- Allison Sherry: For NPR News, I'm Alison Sherry in Boulder.
--:-- Host: U.S. futures are lower in after-hours trading on Wall Street following Wednesday's games.
--:-- Host: Unionized workers at Starbucks are threatening to walk off their jobs in at least 25 cities beginning November 13th if they don't have a new contract by then.
--:-- Host: In a letter to employees, Starbucks says the union is proposing an immediate 65 percent pay hike and a 77 percent increase over three years, among other things.
--:-- Host: Around 550 of the roughly 10,000 Starbucks locations are unionized.
--:-- Host: The coffee chain closed dozens of union shops in September as part of a restructuring.
--:-- Emily Feng: Three Chinese astronauts are not returning to Earth as scheduled They are assessing damage from a small amount of space debris that hit their space station before leaving NPR
--:-- Emily Feng: Emily Fang has details
--:-- Emily Feng: Just a few days ago a new team of astronauts launched into space and successfully docked at the Tiangong station But the outgoing group of astronauts is now delayed after a six-month stint aboard the station.
--:-- Emily Feng: China's space agency believes space debris hit the station.
--:-- Emily Feng: China's been making big strides in its space program.
--:-- Emily Feng: The Tiangong, or Heavenly Palace in Chinese, is China's first permanently crewed station and was designed to rival the U.S.-led International Space Station.
--:-- Emily Feng: The space agency says the next crew to Tiangong will include an international astronaut from Pakistan for the first time.
--:-- Emily Feng: And this week, China said it was on track to land a person on the moon by 2030.
--:-- Emily Feng: Emily Feng, NPR News.
--:-- Host: Victor Conte, who founded the now-defunct Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative, or BALCO, has died at the age of 75.
--:-- Host: Conte was a leading provider of undetectable steroids to elite athletes in track and baseball.
--:-- Host: This is NPR News.
