White House Backs Gun Legislation | North Korea Meeting Details Hazy

+Plus: Five Die in NYC Private Helicopter Accident [| The Presidential Daily Brief | ](5aa651842cab4ef6190d9dca:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/87993bc8/d56f88e3a5da091e8e7cf40b284953e6/-7/) 5aa651842cab4ef6190d9dca:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/87993bc8/d56f88e3a5da091e8e7cf40b284953e6/-7/ [JPMorgan Chase & Co.](5aa651842cab4ef6190d9dca:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/63a406e2/a2fe7f88c05ab94af5db287d1a1b7555/-7/) 5aa651842cab4ef6190d9dca:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/e5b35026/02532f1fc936339e7ea9a7f4523968cc/-7/ 5aa651842cab4ef6190d9dca:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/e5b35026/02532f1fc936339e7ea9a7f4523968cc/-7/ IMPORTANT March 12, 2018 5aa651842cab4ef6190d9dca:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/55d97420/b9e5a56618a391922072937e6bc24122/-7/ [As the debate over gun control rages, exhibitors sold firearms at yesterday's Sweetwater Rifle and Pistol Club Show in Texas. 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Sources: [Reuters](5aa651842cab4ef6190d9dca:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/3c9262ba/332aadfac7645c639c7f1c8e9909f40a/-7/), [NYT](5aa651842cab4ef6190d9dca:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/340b2f9c/ab8ec141d68f1c6cf6cb94b1f71c4f9b/-7/), [BBC](5aa651842cab4ef6190d9dca:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/30c77359/56fe749c0f6856fcf466be53a75c60da/-7/) [Facebook](5aa651842cab4ef6190d9dca:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/7022fcef/eeec87af3edb86f36edccc040bdec0f7/-7/) [Twitter](5aa651842cab4ef6190d9dca:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/d17a0f33/9162a5ed15af31cd3a00b4dd20bd6536/-7/) [Five Die in NYC Private Helicopter Accident](5aa651842cab4ef6190d9dca:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/b5be461a/58a36f218fbe238f43a8170610424dc3/-7/) Only the pilot survived when a chartered helicopter carrying six people plunged into New York City’s East River yesterday evening. The Eurocopter AS350 was in the middle of a private flight allowing its five passengers to take photos of the [Manhattan](5aa651842cab4ef6190d9dca:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/cef2b2b9/e19ba1dc0cab0f62bc19d20ddb6c24df/-7/) skyline. A helicopter crash in 2011, also in the East River, killed three tourists, and nine died in 2009 when a copter collided with a small plane over the Hudson. The cause of last night’s accident is still unclear, but authorities say the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating. 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Though the [Kremlin](5aa651842cab4ef6190d9dca:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/c0b25d0a/14e2d517a93a2180adf079294d5bbf30/-7/) hasn’t been formally linked to the attempted murder of a former Russian spy and his daughter on U.K. soil, Britain’s National Security Council is meeting today to discuss retaliatory measures, reportedly including sanctions, should such evidence arise. Russia’s foreign minister has categorically denied that his country was behind the nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal. Meanwhile, police are urging anyone who ate at the same Salisbury restaurant as Skripal the day he was poisoned to wash their clothes to avoid contamination. 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