"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nor-Rom.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch says investigators are moving quickly to gather evidence
about the suspected gunmen to try to storm the White House correspondence dinner last night.
“President Trump was rushed from the ballroom after secret service agents subdued the suspect,”
and PR's Ryan Lucas reports." Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch told CBS News his face the nation that the suspect in custody is not cooperating with investigators. The judge should not name the individual, but two sources familiar with the matter cell NPR.
The suspect is 31-year-old Cole Allen from Torrance, California. Blanch says investigators are combing through evidence they've gathered so far, including from the suspect's electronic devices. Based on preliminary information, Blanch says the suspect is believed to have traveled by train from Los Angeles to Chicago and then on to Washington, DC, where he had a room
at the Hilton Hotel where the correspondence dinner was taking place. Investigators believe the suspect was targeting Trump administration officials, but Blanch says they are still looking into a potential motive. Ryan Lucas and PR News, Washington.
“"A White House source tells NPR investigators found that the suspect had attended a no-king's”
rally at some point and had posted anti-Trump and anti-Christian writing on social media accounts. It's unclear what will happen next on ending the war in Iran. President Trump had planned to send U.S. envoy's to Pakistan yesterday, but canceled it after the Iranian foreign minister met with Pakistani officials and left his on-the-bud before
the U.S. representatives could arrive. NPR's Daniel Kurtz-Lavin has more." Trump told reporters on Saturday that Iran had "offered a lot but not enough, and so Trump said the trip would be a waste of a trip. So, the fate of these talks is still unknown and the end really isn't in sight yet."
NPR's Daniel Kurtz-Lavin, meanwhile, Iran has virtually shut down the straight-of-form news, and U.S. ships are blockhating the waterway, which carries about one-fifth of global oil and liquid-fi natural gas shipments. Six in ten U.S. adults say they favor abortion rights.
“That's according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute or PRRI,”
NPR's Jason Derrowe's reports. "Support for abortion rights has risen among some religious groups and declined among others according to the survey, 70% of black Protestants now favor abortion being legal in all or most cases." That's up from 56% in 2010.
Meanwhile, favorability has drops lately among men-line Protestants and white Catholics, but majorities of both groups still favor abortion rights overall. The four religious groups without majority support are Hispanic Protestants, Latter-day Saints, White Evangelical Protestants, and Jehovah's Witnesses. PRRI surveyed more than 22,000 people from all 50 states.
Jason Derrowe's NPR News. This is NPR News in Washington. A carbomics bloated outside a police station in Belfast, last night, police say there were no injuries. A peace agreement in 1998 had ended decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland,
but the police occasionally come under attack by nationalist militants opposed to Britain's rule in the region. Kenyan runners Sebastian Saway smashed a world record today at the London Marathon. NPR's Amy Held reports, he's the first person to officially break the two-hour mark. "Are we going sub-tune?
We might be going sub-tune here on the streets of London has never happened."
Sebastian Saway made it happen, finishing at one hour, 59 minutes, 30 seconds. More than a minute faster than the previous record. "It's one of the greatest human achievements we've ever had." The excitement of the BBC announcer and the crowd's mining the London streets. Sebastian Saway, from Kenya, is in the record, but not just here today forever."
Saway is the first ever sub-tune hour finisher under official race conditions. "It's still in good. I'm so happy. It's the day to remember." The 31-year-old spoke to the BBC.
"Raging the finishing line, I saw the time, and I was so excited to see running a world record today." The runner-up from Ethiopia also came in under two hours, Amy Held and PR News. "In women's basketball, Indiana fever star Caitlin Clark was back on the court last night,
playing her first WNBA game in nine months due to injuries.
She scored the first basket of the game and finished with seven points for his seventh three rebounds. It was just a pretty seasoned game, but Clark said it felt good. I'm Nora Rom and PR News in Washington." On Consider This, NPR's Afternoon News podcast, we cover everything from politics to
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