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WTJX NEWSFEED: September 2, 2026

Marcellina Ventura-Douglas

On today’s WTJX Radio NewsFeed: VIPD arrested brothers Deshawn and Shawn Henley as investigators work to determine whether they and other suspects are connected to a surge of roughly 40 burglaries reported across St. Croix over the past two months.
Op-Ed: The State of Our Hospitals: Progress, Partnership and the Facts

Dr. Jerry R. Smith

Dr. Jerry R. Smith is the Chairman of the Virgin Islands Government Hospital and Health Facilities Corporation.
Judge Velázquez denies Mary Moorhead’s petition for separate ballot in delegate to Congress race

Tom Eader

Elections System to use single ballot for delegate to Congress and local races after court rejects Mary Moorhead’s petition for separate ballot.

Ryan Sun

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AP

NBA suspends Clippers owner Ballmer, fines team $30M, Kawhi Leonard $700K in cap circumvention case

The Associated Press

Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer was suspended for one year by the NBA, and the team was ordered to pay $30 million for violating salary cap circumvention rules in a case involving Kawhi Leonard.
Karen Bleier

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AFP

The IRS slashed its staff. One result? More taxes going uncollected

Scott Horsley

The IRS slashed its auditing staff last year — but the move may have backfired as tax collections from enforcement efforts plummeted, an Inspector General report shows.

Jonathan Borg

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AP

A jury in Malta acquits a businessman in the killing of reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia

The Associated Press

Investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia had written extensively about suspected corruption in political and business circles in Malta. She was killed by a car bomb in 2017, at age 53.
Scott Olson

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New Jersey asks Supreme Court to resolve fight over Kalshi's future

Bobby Allyn

If the high court accepts the petition, it would tee up a case with sweeping implications for prediction markets, an industry that has unleashed billions of dollars of betting across nearly every aspect of modern life.

National News

BBC News World Service

Iranian attack on Saudi tanker killed two Filipino sailors, Saudi Arabia says

The kingdom condemns the targeting of Sidr, which was reportedly hit by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.
Protests in Spain against government's handling of Ceuta migrant crisis

Spanish opposition parties accuse Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of abandoning the residents of Ceuta.
EU and Nato vow to step up pressure on Russia after 'new escalation' in Germany

Russia is accused of growing increasingly reckless after Berlin blamed Russia for a failed drone attack on Leipzig airport.
Rosenberg: Putin's veiled threat to UK part of Russia's campaign against West

The Russian president wants to keep Britain guessing - and stressing - over Moscow's real intentions.

Parents of children who tested positive for HIV after receiving care at Kulsum Bai Valika Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, held a protest there on July 23. These families received care at Valika Hospital through an aid program run by the labor ministry. Many of the parents of children infected with HIV are low-income factory workers.

Betsy Joles for NPR

Whatever happened to ... children infected with HIV due to failures in healthcare?

Text and photos by Betsy Joles

For years, Pakistan has seen cases of children infected with HIV due to unsafe treatment in clinics and hospitals. A current outbreak numbers hundreds of cases. Why does this problem keep occurring?