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President Trump says he wanted to continue the White House correspondent's dinner last
“night after a gunman opened fire, but that it was the right thing to leave the Washington”
Hilton. NPR's Franco Ordonia's reports now Trump is pointing to the shooting as a reason to finish the controversial White House ballroom under construction."
President Trump says the shooting would never have happened if it were held in the new
ballroom he's having built at the White House. The other Washington Hilton not a particularly secure site as explained on Fox News. "Well, it's always tough when you have a thousand rooms, it's a large hotel right on top, and so people come down and elevate it and they're right over the top of where you're speaking, and not very far away, and it's pretty tough, and you know, as you
know, we're building a big, beautiful, very, very secure ballroom in every way with a massive bulletproof glass that's almost boring, just take." Even if it is built, it's not clear if the dinner could be held there. The annual event is private, Franco, Ordonia's NPR news. The suspect is due to be a rain tomorrow in federal court, initially facing weapons and
assault charges. Officials say more charges may be added as the investigation continues.
He's been identified as Cole Allen, a 31-year-old man from the Los Angeles suburb of
Torrance, California. Steve Fotterman went there and spoke with people who knew him. On the street, where Cole Thomas Allen lived, law enforcement spent much of the night gathering evidence that might explain what led to last night's shooting. Allen, a graduate of Caltech, worked for a company that provides tutoring and preparation
for college entrance examinations. Among the evidence that law enforcement was looking for overnight, were such things as computers, cell phones, and external digital storage devices. Steve Fotterman reporting, Congress has just one week in town before its next recess. The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down since February 14th, which means
“lawmakers haven't appropriated money to pay secret service agents, NPR's Eric McDaniel”
reports.
Though the longest agency shut down in history weren't enough pressure, Saturday night shooting
at the White House Correspondent Association dinner has refocused lawmakers' attention on the lack of DHS funding. Here's Utah Senator Mike Lee, Saturday night in a video on X. "The very same secret service that just saved President Trump's life, and thank heaven above that he's safe, has been defunded along with the rest of the Department of Homeland
Security for more than two months. My Democrat colleagues, in the Senate, it's time to end this. Let's end the Homeland Security shutdown now. Please." Justice twice advanced a unanimous bipartisan deal to fund all of the agency with the exception
of some immigration enforcement teams that House Republicans have refused to take up. The GOP is now advancing a slower one-party plan, Eric McDaniel and PR News Washington. This is NPR News.
“It was 40 years ago today that the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded, and what was then”
the Soviet Union. It exposed millions of people in the region to dangerous levels of radiation, and forced the permanent evacuation of hundreds of towns and villages in Ukraine and in Belarus. Thousands have died from radiation-related illnesses. There are reports from Molly that the Defense Minister has been killed in the attack on
his residents. Militian groups have claimed responsibility for a series of attacks in various parts of the West African nation yesterday. More gunfire was reported today. Michael Coloky reports.
The Al-Qaeda linked militant group, JNIM, claimed responsibility for attacks in parts of the country, while the rebel group, FLA, also claimed to have carried out a number of attacks. In a statement, Molly's military said that several assailants had been killed during the incidents, with a government spokesperson adding that a number of people had also been
injured. Meanwhile, the American embassy in Molly has issued a security alert, calling on U.S. citizens in the West African nation to shelter in place. During the attacks, the UN has called for an international response to violence in the West Africa-Sahal region.
For NPR News, a Michael Coloky in Nairobi. A runner from Kenya said a new record at the London Marathon today. Sebastian saw way finished in under two hours, at one hour, 59 minutes, 30 seconds. He later thanked the crowds that lined the streets for the race, saying, "With them calling, you feel so happy and strong.
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