Cockpit recordings have been recovered from the jet involved in a collision just outside of Washington, DC, a German far-right party is participating in mainstream politics for the first time since World War Two and researchers are studying nuclear weapons at an underground facility in Nevada. Want more comprehensive analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? Subscribe to the Up First newsletter. Today's episode of Up First was edited by Denice Rios, Ryland Barton, Gisele Grayson, Janaya Williams and Alice Woelfle. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas, Claire Murashima and Chris Thomas. We get engineering support from Arthur Laurent and our technical director is Stacey Abbott. Our executive producer is Kelley Dickens. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
We're starting to learn the identities of crew members on board the flights that collided just outside Washington, D.C.
cockpit recordings.
From the jet have also been recovered.
What can they tell investigators about why this happened?
I'm Michelle Martin.
That's a Martinez.
And this is up first from NPR News.
The German parliament passed a motion to restrict immigration by turning back asylum seekers at the border.
It narrowly passed with the support of the country's extremist far right party lawmakers.
Cooperation with them broke a long standing taboo against working with the far right.
What does it mean that these extremists are now participating in mainstream politics?
And we pay a visit to a top secret lab underneath the Nevada desert where nuclear weapons are tested and studied.
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