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  UNITED STATES

  Fighter jet crashes in Utah

  An F-35 jet crashed on Wednesday at an air force base in Utah, officials said, adding that the pilot ejected and was taken to a hospital for observation. The 388th Fighter Wing said on its Twitter account that the F-35 A Lightning II crashed at the north end of the Hill Air Force Base runway. It said the cause of the crash was unknown and would be investigated. The fighter wing said emergency crews both on and off the base responded to the crash. Brock Thurgood said the pilot landed near his property near the base, KSL.com reported. Thurgood said the pilot was “walking and he was coherent,” but added that his hands were “bloodied up and he was a little banged up.”

  UNITED STATES

  Drugs found in candy boxes

  Authorities on Wednesday seized thousands of suspected fentanyl pills hidden in candy boxes at Los Angeles International Airport. Someone tried to go through security screening with some snacks and bags of candy at about 7:30am, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement. “However, it was discovered that inside the ‘Sweetarts,’ ‘Skittles,’ and ‘Whoppers’ candy boxes were fentanyl pills,” the statement said. About 12,000 pills were seized by sheriff’s detectives and Drug Enforcement Administration agents assigned to a drug task force at the airport, authorities said. The suspected trafficker fled, but has been identified, authorities said. Authorities have warned that drug dealers have been disguising fentanyl in candy wrappers and manufacturing them in rainbow colors.

  UNITED STATES

  One killed in highway pileup

  Dozens of vehicles, including semitrailers, were involved in a deadly crash in heavy fog on Wednesday on Interstate 5 in Oregon. One person was killed in the multivehicle crash that happened in the southbound lanes of the interstate north of Eugene, Oregon State Police told KOIN-TV. About 60 vehicles, including up to 20 semitrailers, were involved in the crashes that spanned more than 1.6km and led to the closure of that part of the interstate. The Department of Environmental Quality responded to address leaking fluids from six of the semitrailers, police said. School buses from Eugene were reportedly sent to take several dozen stranded motorists to a nearby truck stop.

  ISRAEL

  Settlers attack soldiers

  Jewish settlers stormed through a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military said yesterday, throwing stones at Palestinian vehicles and using pepper spray on troops who were trying to disperse the settlers. The settler rampage late on Wednesday came days after a similar incident in the same area and as Israeli-Palestinian tensions are surging over Israeli raids in the West Bank and an uptick in shooting attacks by Palestinians.

  BRAZIL

  Bolsonaro narrows gap

  President Jair Bolsonaro narrowed his gap with challenger former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva 11 days before Brazilians cast ballots in the country’s second-round vote, a new poll released on Wednesday showed. Lula has 52 percent support against 48 percent for Bolsonaro, the Datafolha institute found, narrowing the spread of the previous week, which was 53 percent to 47 percent. The figures exclude voters who plan to cast blank or spoiled ballots — 5 percent of respondents, Datafolha estimates.
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