U.S. suspect ‘encouraged and aided’ mass shooter in Canada
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U.S. suspect ‘encouraged and aided’ mass shooter in Canada

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 6, 202658 min
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The FBI announces the arrest of a Washington State resident who allegedly spent at least six months in contact with the shooter who killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. A young woman from Okinawa tells us why she joined protests after a U.S. Marine allegedly killed a local woman. She tells us it's time for the American military to leave the island for good. A Canadian scientist who works with the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics explains Francis Halzen's work on the small bu...

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