NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Aug. 1)

Published on August 1, 2024

The West and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap since the end of the Cold War, releasing 26 individuals from seven countries. Russia released three U.S. citizens, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan. The Israeli military said the head of Hamas’s military wing, Mohammed Deif, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on July 13. Deif is believed to be one of the masterminds of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel. Venezuela’s socialist leader Nicolás Maduro asked the United States to restart talks and lift oil sanctions. This comes while the United States is scrutinizing Venezuela’s presidential election and waiting for Maduro to release the tabulated results....

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August 1, 2024
A federal judge on July 29 temporarily put on hold a challenge to the capital city’s ban on so-called assault weapons.Second Amendment advocates say the ban is unconstitutional; gun control supporters say it promotes public safety.Gun rights activists say the expression “assault weapon” is arbitrary and is based on superficial considerations such as the way a weapon looks, as opposed to what it do