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There are a series of light aircraft accidents in the United States. On the night of the 14th, a light aircraft crashed onto a highway in North Carolina, and this time, a light aircraft crashed after getting caught in a power line in western Oregon. Three people died.

According to local police in Oregon on the 17th, emergency responders in Independence, Polk County, Oregon, received a report of a plane crash at 4:55 p.m. the previous day and arrived at the scene. We were dispatched.

As a result of the initial investigation, it was determined that a light aircraft equipped with a single engine crashed after hitting a power line, which caused a small forest fire and a power outage in the area. Rescue workers said After waiting for the power company to turn off the high-voltage line, they extinguished the fire and investigated the accident. According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which investigated the scene with the police, 3 people who were on board the light aircraft All 30 people died in this accident.

The NTSB is investigating the specific cause of the accident, including how the light aircraft hit the power line. Previously, on the night of the 14th, there were passengers. A single-engine light aircraft with two people on board crashed on a highway in North Carolina.

The light aircraft was almost burned by fire after the crash, but fortunately the passengers escaped from the plane and survived. It is reported that there is no problem.

Guilty of drug abuse and child neglect… “I regret my mistakes in life.”

Related to the incident that shocked American society earlier this year when a 6-year-old boy shot a teacher in class, the child’s mother was sentenced to prison on charges of child neglect. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), a local daily, reported on the 15th (local time) that he was sentenced to two years in prison.

According to the report, the judge of the Circuit Court in Newport News, Virginia, USA, sentenced Deja Taylor (26) on this day was sentenced in recognition of the prosecution’s indictment that Taylor had neglected her son and allowed him to shoot.

Taylor’s son shot and seriously injured his teacher while attending class at an elementary school in Newport News in January of this year.

It was found that this child talked back to the teacher’s admonition and got into an argument. The gun belonged to the mother, and she took it to school. It is unusual for prosecutors to indict the parents of a child who shot a child, but in recent years, similar cases aimed at holding guardians accountable have been increasing.

Previously, Taylor was sentenced to 21 months in prison by the Eastern District Court of Virginia last month for inhaling drugs such as marijuana while in possession of a firearm. Taylor did not inhale drugs and took parental responsibility. The prosecution and the court’s judgment are that if everything had been done, his son would not have gone to school with a gun.

Taylor said during the prosecution’s investigation that he regretted making mistakes in his life and that he had suffered from mental health issues and marijuana addiction.

The family said her son also had a serious disability. The victim teacher filed a $40 million lawsuit was filed for damages amounting to hundreds of millions.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, owner of social media X (formerly Twitter), restored conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s X account after five years.

Musk said on the 10th that in a survey on his X account asking whether Jones’ account should be restored, 70.1% were in favor of restoring it. Jones’ account was recovered five years after it was blocked in 2018.

Jones has claimed that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were a fabricated hoax, and that the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the United States that occurred 11 years ago was a fabrication. Jones previously had his account suspended by Twitter in 2018 after claiming that the Sandy Hook tragedy was fabricated by the Obama administration’s efforts to tighten gun laws.

In fact, it was a permanent ban.

In November of last year, a month after acquiring Twitter, Musk said he would reopen accounts that were suspended on Twitter but continued to block Jones’ account. However, on the 7th, it said it would consider reinstating Jones’ account, saying, “This platform dreams of becoming the world’s city square, so a permanent ban should be extremely rare.”

Musk previously restored former President Donald Trump’s account after 22 months in November of last year, and in July of last year, he also restored the account of American hip-hop singer Kanye West, who was controversial for his far-right remarks.

Meanwhile, Alex Jones was sued by the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook disaster and ordered to pay approximately $1.5 billion in compensation. He applied for personal bankruptcy protection to avoid paying the amount but was not accepted.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump, who is leading the race for the Republican presidential nomination, once again made dictatorial remarks despite growing controversy over dictatorship during his second term in office.

According to the political media outlet Politico on the 10th, former President Trump protested at the New York Republican Party gala dinner held the previous day, saying, “The New York Times reported today that I want to become a dictator,” and “I didn’t say that.” “I said I wanted to be a dictator just for one day,” he said. “Do you know why I said I wanted to be a dictator? It’s because I want to build a border wall and restart oil drilling.” It is reported that chants of “Build a wall” broke out among far-right attendees.

Former President Trump also raised his voice at the event, saying, “We want to save America, which is hurting and suffering so much,” and added, “My presidential campaign is a just crusade to save our country from corrupt political groups.”

Previously, at a town hall event pre-recorded and broadcast with Fox News anchor Sean Hannity on the 5th, former President Trump made the remarks of a dictator while refuting claims by some in the Democratic and Republican parties that there is a risk of dictatorship if he returns to power. did it Former President Trump, who avoided giving a direct answer in the first question, said, “I ask you, ‘You are not going to become a dictator. Is that right?’ No, no, no. Except for the first day (inauguration),” he said. “We will block it and expand oil drilling,” he said.

After this remark, concerns that dictatorship will become a reality under former President Trump’s administration are intensifying in various circles. U.S. President Joe Biden, who is experiencing worsening public opinion within the Democratic Party’s supporters following the war between Israel and Hamas, is pleased, and is actively highlighting this in his campaign.

Julie Chavez Rodriguez, chairwoman of Biden’s campaign committee, immediately issued a statement and criticized, “Trump has said exactly what he will do if re-elected, and today he said he will be a dictator from day one,” adding, “Americans should believe him.”

“Fame is a monster…you have to be careful”.

Hollywood actor Will Smith said, “Fame is a monster.”

Will Smith recently attended the Red Sea International Film Festival held in Saudi Arabia and shared various stories with fans, filmmakers, and aspiring actors. “I had to be careful because fame is a unique monster,” he said. “

The more I accept it when everyone says nice things about me, the more it hurts me when people say bad things about me,” he said. “I learned that I had to be clear,” he said.

This is an indirect reference to the assault on Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards, which received a lot of criticism. At the time, Chris Rock made a joke aimed at Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who shaved her head due to hair loss due to illness, and Will Smith screamed, “Don’t put my wife’s name in her mouth.”

He won the Best Actor award but was disciplined and ended up withdrawing from the Academy.

He also said, “I always wanted to make people laugh, and I enjoyed the process of giving joy and inspiration,” and said that he was not a perfect human being. “I am in the process of perfecting my virtue. I knew I had to be humble to perfect my light, and I was deeply inspired,” Will Smith said. “I want to shine my light on as many people as possible,” he said.

Meanwhile, Will Smith also have revealed that he is preparing a sequel to ‘I Am Legend’ (2007). He said, “I’ve received the first script, and I’m talking to his co-star Michael Jordan.”

A suspect who committed a series of homeless murders in downtown Los Angeles has been arrested.

The arrested suspect is also suspected of a robbery and shooting death in San Dimas. A man in his 30s was arrested on suspicion of shooting and killing four people, including three homeless people and an LA County government employee, over four days last week.

The arrested suspect is 33-year-old Jerid Joseph Powell, who is accused of killing three homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles last week, as well as a robbery and shooting death in San Dimas.

The police department held a press conference on the 2nd, last Saturday, and announced that the arrested suspect was not only accused of shooting and killing three homeless people who were sleeping alone on the streets of Los Angeles over a four-day period from the 26th to the 29th of last month, but also shot and killed a man in his 40s in San Dimas.

He said he was taken into custody on suspicion of following him to commit a robbery and then shooting him to death.

Between the 26th and 29th of last month, three homeless men were found dead in different neighbourhoods in downtown Los Angeles. The first murder occurred at 3 a.m. on Sunday the 26th in the 800 block of West 110th Street, the second occurred at 5 a.m. on Monday the 27th in the 800 block of East 7th Street, and the third occurred at 2 p.m. on Wednesday the 29th.

It happened in the 30th minute at 18 South Avenue and South Pasadena Avenue.

The murdered homeless people turned out to be black and Hispanic men, and all were shot and killed while sleeping alone on the sidewalk or in an open space. On the night of the 28th, last Tuesday, 42-year-old LA County employee Nicholas Symbolon was shot and killed by a robber who followed him to his home in San Dimas and robbed him of his belongings from his garage.

Mr. Symbolon was found dead in his Tesla car.

The police used license plate identification technology to determine that the vehicle the suspect in the three homeless killings and the San Dimas robbery murder was driving at the time of the crime was the same BMW and conducted a tracking investigation into the vehicle.

The suspect driving the vehicle was caught by police in Beverly Hills last Wednesday night while monitoring a vehicle for traffic violations. Police found the firearm used in the crime in the suspect’s car and arrested the suspect.

Fentanyl is the number one cause of death for those aged 18 to 49, with annual economic losses reaching $1.5 trillion.

Blocking raw materials is even on the agenda of the U.S.-China summit. Fentanyl is one of the major problems in the United States. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration of the U.S. Department of Justice, the number of deaths in the United States due to addictive drugs will reach 107,000 in 2021. 70% of it is due to fentanyl.

Fentanyl poisoning is the number one cause of death among Americans aged 18 to 49, which is driving the United States to its peak. This trend is worsening. The number of deaths due to drug use was less than 20,000 in 2001 but has increased fivefold in 20 years.

In particular, the new growth rate in the two years from 2019 to 2021 is 94%, or double. If criminal cases become widespread to this extent, they become an economic problem.

Currently, the U.S. Congress estimates that economic losses due to drug overdose will amount to $1.5 trillion by 2020.  Last year, the U.S. trade deficit in goods and services was $948.1 billion, so the economic loss due to the drug problem is greater than the U.S. annual trade deficit.

In the United States, interest in the relationship between addiction to drugs such as fentanyl and the labour market is growing. In a report released this year, the Brookings Institution analysed that substance abuse problems account for 43% of the decline in male labour force participation. Another survey found that one in five drug overdose deaths were people working in the construction or restaurant industries. These are the industries that have had the most difficulty recruiting workers after the COVID-19 pandemic abated.

One of the main causes of current inflation in the United States is the lack of people to work. This is because salaries must be raised for recruitment, and the resulting increase in labour costs is reflected in the sales price.

As the number of people working with fentanyl decreases, the drug problem is not unrelated to the rise in U.S. prices.

The U.S. government is introducing various policies in response to fentanyl, such as distributing antidotes and expanding the rehabilitation budget. Accordingly, the United States is now targeting the manufacturing and distribution route of fentanyl from China (raw materials) through Mexico (manufacturing) to the United States (sales). The fentanyl issue has expanded into the diplomatic realm.

The fentanyl issue became a key agenda item at the U.S.-China summit held at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit that concluded last week. Although the United States did not make major concessions on the Taiwan issue or the semiconductor issue, it reached an agreement to cooperate on fentanyl policy.

The New York Times evaluated, “The fentanyl issue was one of the biggest achievements the United States could receive from this summit.” If something similar to the spread of the fentanyl problem in the United States were to happen in Korea, what would be the result?

There is scepticism about whether the economic loss can be sustained even if it increases beyond the size of the trade deficit. It is unclear whether we will be able to get what we want without making any concessions to the foreign countries involved.

Even if the United States’ economic strength weakens due to drug addiction, it can offset this with its unique financial system as a key country. Supported by global demand for dollars and U.S. government bonds, there is great room to cover socioeconomic weaknesses by increasing fiscal investment.

Even if fentanyl promotes price rises, it is possible to lower import prices to some extent with a strong dollar. We are not. We do not have the tools to automatically offset the trade deficit, labour loss, and economic loss caused by the drug problem. Although it is not as high as in the United States, the spread of drugs in Korea is also worrisome.

Some are criticizing that the golden time to eradicate drugs has already passed, citing the fact that it is cheaper and easier to obtain than expected. Despite this situation, the drug investigation budget is becoming a subject of political dispute. There may be areas in which budget allocation is more urgent than drug investigation, but if the budget for the drug sector becomes more urgent, then it may be too late to do anything about it.

A suspect who shot three Palestinian American college students during the Thanksgiving holiday was caught by police.

Local police are continuing their investigation, weighing the possibility of a hate crime.

According to a report by the New York Times on the 27th, police in Burlington, Vermont, arrested Jason Eaton (48) on charges of shooting and injuring three young men of Palestinian origin and are investigating.

Referring to a police statement, Eaton is accused of shooting three Palestinian college students with a pistol in front of his apartment near the University of Vermont in Burlington at around 6:25 p.m. on the 25th.

Local police said that two of the young victims are currently in stable condition, but the other is seriously injured. According to the victims’ families, the three students, all college students in their early 20s, were attacked while on their way to the grandmother’s house of one of the victims for the Thanksgiving holiday.

The suspect approached the people walking by talking in a mix of English and Arabic and fired four shots without saying a word.

Vermont, located in the northeastern United States, borders Quebec, Canada, and is known to have a relatively low crime rate in the United States. More than 90% of the resident population is made up of white people, and the suspect, Eaton, is also white.

All three victims were from Palestine, two of them were U.S. citizens and the other was a legal resident, police said. It was discovered that two of the victims were wearing kaffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian dress with a black and white check pattern, at the time of the attack.

Local police are considering the possibility that this incident was a hate crime and have requested cooperation from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).The American Arab Non-Discrimination Committee (ADC), a Muslim human rights group in the United States, released a statement the day before and said that the three victims were Hisham Awathani, a student at Brown University, Kinnan Abdalhamid, a student at Haverford University, and Tahsin Ahmed, a student at Trinity University.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders also said in a statement the day before, President Joe Biden also issued a statement, saying, “I was shocked to hear that three Palestinian college students were shot,” adding, “They were just spending Thanksgiving with their families and loved ones.”

He continued, “There is no place for violence or hate in America. No one should have to worry about being shot while going about their daily lives. We will never accept that.”

The average credit score of Washington state residents was found to be the 7th highest in the United States. According to a recent survey by the personal finance information site ‘WalletHub’, the average credit score of Washington state residents was 717 points, which is 21 points higher than the average credit score of the entire United States, which is 696 points.

In the United States, a credit score of 700 or higher is considered a ‘good’ credit score, but as the coronavirus epidemic continues, many residents have had difficulty maintaining their credit scores, but it has recently been found to have recovered significantly.

Looking at the Northwest American region, Washington State ranked 7th, Oregon ranked 16th with 713 points, Montana ranked 10th with 715 points, Idaho also ranked 13th with 715 points, and Alaska ranked 27th with 705 points.

Except for Alaska, the credit scores of residents in Northwest America are generally good.

In the United States, the state with the highest average credit score for its residents was Minnesota with 725 points, followed by New Hampshire with 722 points. Vermont ranked third with 721 points, Massachusetts ranked fourth with 718 points, and Wisconsin ranked fifth with 718 points.

The state with the lowest credit score in the United States was Mississippi with only 672 points, followed by Louisiana with 676 points, Alabama with 680 points, Texas with 680 points, and Oklahoma with 681 points.

In the United States, cases of filing for bankruptcy to be exempted from student loan repayment responsibilities have been found to be increasing.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on the 16th, this is a change that came after the Biden administration significantly relaxed the requirements for bankruptcy determination, such as income and expenditure standards, for student loan borrowers in November last year.

The Federal Ministry of Justice announced that from November of last year to September of this year, 632 people filed for bankruptcy to be exempt from student loan repayments. Before the pandemic halted federal student loan payments, the average number of applicants was 480 per year.

The absolute numbers are still not high, but it has definitely increased compared to before. The federal Department of Education predicted that bankruptcy filings will continue to increase as more people become aware of the guideline changes.

The government appears to be recommending a new method of debt relief. “It has become easier for borrowers to apply for forgiveness, and courts have largely accepted the Department of Justice’s recommendations to forgive student loans in eligible cases,” said Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta.

The Biden administration has actively promoted this change in student loan forgiveness policy to young voters. Currently, approximately 40 million student loan borrowers hold $1.6 trillion in federal student debt, and more than 3 million of them are seeking forgiveness of $127 billion in loan debt.