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The investigation into the shooting at the White House correspondent dinner and Washington
DC last night is continuing, and Piers confirmed the suspect is Cole Allen. He's a 31-year-old teacher and engineer from California, and Piers Livia Khalidri has our reports. Cole Allen graduated from Caltech in 2017 and worked as a part-time teacher at a tutoring service for high school students in Torrance, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.
The White House says Allen wanted to target administration officials.
“A White House official not authorized to speak publicly says the Secret Service and Montgomery”
County Police spoke with Allen's sister. She told them her brother had a tendency to make radical statements, and his rhetoric constantly referenced a plan to do "something" to fix the issues with today's world. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says investigators are still looking into a potential motive.
Allen will be a reigned and federal court on Monday. Lydia Khalidri and Piers News, Washington. In the aftermath of the attempted attack in the White House correspondent, Stinner President Trump is praising the response of the Secret Service and law enforcement, but he's back to criticizing the press and Democrats and Piers' Tamarachief reports.
In the hours after the dinner, Trump hit a note of unity. Then Sunday in an interview with 60 minutes, he was asked about political violence in America, and what he is president can do to change the trajectory in the country. Tellers been there, people are assassinated, people are injured, people are hurt, and I'm not sure that it's any more now than it was.
I do think that the hate speech of the Democrats much more so is very dangerous.
“I really think it's very dangerous to the country.”
Of the alleged attacker, Trump said he was radicalized and, quote, "probably a pretty sick guy." Tamarachief and Piers News. New former Israeli prime ministers have agreed to merge parties against Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of Israel's parliamentary elections, which are coming up in October.
And Piers' Eleanor Beardsley, as more. "Naftaali Bennett and Yair Lapid say their merger is intended to unite the center-right
to focus all efforts on winning the critical upcoming elections, though they have ideological
differences. They've enjoyed a close-working relationship. Bennett is an Orthodox Jew with a hard-line view towards Palestinians, Lapid is secular and seen as more moderate. Both have already served as prime minister in a previous coalition government in 2021-22
during a brief interlude in Netanyahu's 18-year grip on power. Hundreds of protesters came out against Netanyahu in Tel Aviv Saturday night. His poll numbers have dropped since the U.S. Israeli military campaign against Iran has failed to deliver a decisive outcome, and when our bears lay in their news, Tel Aviv." And you're listening to NPR News.
Fighting in Ukraine and Russia has killed at least 16 people this weekend, Ukrainian forces hit an oil-refinery deep inside in Russian territory and set off a number of fires. And one person was killed in the Ukrainian attack in the port city of Sebastopol, Russian drones and missile attacks in the Ukrainian city of Danipro killed at least nine people. More than 10,000 runners from all 50 states and 26 nations took to the streets of Eugene
and Springfield, Oregon today, for the annual Eugene Marathon, is Brian Bull of Member Station KLCC reports the event is a major one for the place known as "Tracked Town USA." First after sunrise, thousands of people dash past Hayward Field at the University of Oregon is the birthplace of Chew Giant Mikey, as well as were famed Olympic runner Steve Prefontane trained, cheering from the sidelines was flimmed home, whose daughter was running her third
marathon. "She ran my first half marathon with me, and like the energy of the people and just the camaraderie is nice. This is probably the biggest race we've been to so far." Elaine County official says the Eugene Marathon is a major economic driver, generating more
than $8 million in direct spending.
For NPR News, I'm Brian Bull in Eugene. Now the court is once again the number one women's world golfer after a strong Finnish Sunday at the LPGA Championship at Houston's Morial Park. She started at end of the day with a five-stroke lead, Patty Tabata-knocketh from Thailand placed second.
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