Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
President Trump and Cabinet members were evacuated from the White House Correspondence Dinner at a hotel in Washington, DC tonight after loud sounds were heard. And here's Deepa Shiveram is covering the dinner and says they sounded like gunshots, though that's not confirmed.
“Secret Service told people to stay inside the building.”
Shiveram says authorities apparently have a person in custody.
This is the first time Trump has attended the dinner as president.
Meanwhile, President Trump says he's canceled the US allegations trip to Islamabad for talks with Iran if he has deeper shiveram has more on this story. Trump says there was too much time wasted on traveling for in-person talks. On the way back to Washington, Trump told reporters in Palm Beach, Florida that Iranians could continue negotiations over the phone.
"Have people traveling for 16, 17 hours? We're not doing it that way. We'll do it. When they want, they can call me." He also claimed that there's infighting among Iranian leadership and confusion over who's
in charge. Trump extended the ceasefire with Iran earlier this week, though it's not clear when it will lift.
“The White House has just said that's up to the president.”
Trump says that after he canceled the travel to Pakistan, Iran came back with a better deal. He said Iran offered a lot, but not enough. Deepa Shiveram and PR News Ukraine says Russia fired dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones into the need for
a Ukraine killing at least five people and injuring dozens of others. And here's Fulina Litwanova. He has more. "Dresscare crews worked to clear a rubble at the site of an attack on an apartment building in the pro-incentral Ukraine.
The city was hit with ballistic missiles and drones, damaged residential areas, civilian infrastructure, and causing fires." Police in Dallas and Houston are changing policies on how they deal with ICE. This after pressure from Governor Greg Abbott. Houston, public media's Dominic Anthony Walsh has more saying that the changes are already
taking effect.
“Police officers in Houston and Dallas were forbidden from detaining people or prolonging”
traffic stops due to civil immigration warrants. It threatened to revoke public safety grants unless the policies changed.
Houston had more than $110 million on the line, while Dallas faced the loss of more than
$30 million on top of public safety funding for the FIFA World Cup in nearby Arlington. After the threat, both cities gave officers more discretion to hold people for immigration warrants. Civil rights advocates criticized the changes, while Abbott says he expects other cities to follow suit.
"I'm Dominic Anthony Walsh in Houston." Repeating our top story, President Trump and Cabinet members were evacuated from the White House Correspondence Dinner in Washington tonight for loud sounds. You're listening to "NPR News." A journalism organization that reports on American prisons is sending out one song each week
performed by an incarcerated American. Reporter Justin Kramman has more. The Marshall Project's weekly newsletter, Redemption Songs, tracks the last century of mass incarceration through 25 songs made in American prisons. One is Black Farvey, a 2022 track by an incarcerated woman known as B.E.A.L.X.
"I know the spot like you get dressed, because they're about to fake all your friends are made of plastic." B.E.L.X. is serving a 30-year sentence for murder and says creating music has helped make her story about more than just her crime. "If we still have nice after whatever we go through, whether it's a state, whatever we
deal and we're growing up." Marshall Project writer Marie Shamass as the lack of empathy for incarcerated people plays a part in extremely punitive sentences. "So I see music as a way to fight that cycle." Bren PR News, I'm Justin Kramman.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is embracing a statute at once kept at Arms Length, bringing
a bronze figure of Rocky Balboa inside for the first time.
The rising up, Rocky and the making of monuments exhibit explores how the fictional fighter became a global symbol of struggle and resilience. For decades, the museum tried to remove the statue, but it's not a pilgrimage site, drawing millions of people each year. Once the exhibit closes, the statue will move to a permanent spot on the museum's
steps. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington. This week on the NPR Politics podcast, for decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked and even infiltrated hate groups. But the Justice Department now alleges the way they funded that work amounted to bank
fraud. Is it an honest pursuit of justice or just the latest example of the Trump DOJ targeting the President's political opponents?
