From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham.Policy in the nation's capital saya medical examiner in Virginia has concluded this week's death of former white house press secretary James Brady was a homicidelinked to the wounds he suffered in 1981 when a gunman tried to assassinate president Ronald Reagan.NPR's Richard Gonzales reportsthe founding could allow prosecutors to try to reopen the case and charge the assassin with murder.Brady was Reagan's white house press secretary when John Hinckley Jr. tried to assassinate the president more than 33 years ago.Reagan was shot in the chest and 3 others were wounded.Brady was shot in the head and it let the rest of his life partially paralyzed,suffering from short-term memory loss, slurring speech and constant pain.He died earlier this week from a series of health issues at age of 73.Autopsy determined that the cause of the death was Brady's gunshot wound and its ensuing health problems.The attempted president assassin, John Hinckley, was found not guilty by reason of insanityand has lived in a Washington D.C. mental hospital.Richard Gonzales, NPR News.The second wave of US air strike has hit Islamic militant target in northern Iraq.The Pentagon says drone aircrafts attacked a mortar position,then F-18 fighter jets fired on a convoy and another mortar position.Those attacks follows one this morning, in which laser-guided bombs were dropped on mobile artillery target near the Kurdish regional capital, Erbil.Volkswagen is expecting a recall of minivan which have ignition switches can be bumped out of the wrong position.
