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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says "investigators are moving quickly to gather evidence
about the suspected gunman who tried to storm the White House Correspondence dinner last night."
“President Trump was rushed from the ballroom after Secret Service agents subdued the suspect.”
NPR's Ryan Lucas reports. "Ectin Attorney General Todd Blanche told CBS News his face the nation that the suspect in custody is not cooperating with investigators." Blanche did not name the individual, but two sources familiar with the matter tell NPR. The suspect is 31-year-old Cole Allen from Torrance, California.
Blanche says investigators are combing through evidence they've gathered so far, including from the suspect's electronic devices. Based on preliminary information, Blanche 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 Blanche says they are still looking into a potential motive. Ryan Lucas and PR News, Washington."
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is directing the Israeli military to, quote, "vigorously”
attack has well-attargets in Lebanon." The order comes just days after a temporary ceasefire was extended for three weeks. NPR's Cat lawn store reports both sides have been claiming attacks in recent days. The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders for a part of southern Lebanon beyond the area currently occupied by Israeli troops warning of upcoming strikes.
Israeli strikes in the south have killed more than 20 people since the ceasefire went into effect according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health. Hezbollah says that attacked Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into northern Israel in response to what it says are Israeli violations of the ceasefire. Many in Lebanon are closely watching the status of the U.S. Iran peace talks, which were
largely canceled yesterday, worried that if those talks fall apart, the war here will reignite again in full. Cat lawn store for NPR News, Beirut.
“Former detainees at the Dilly Immigration Processing Center in South Texas say the tap water”
there is not fit for consumption. Texas Public Radio's Cory Cook has more. Amanda Aguilar is a staff attorney at American Gateways in San Antonio. She represents multiple families detained at Dilly and said her clients claim the water there is foul.
The water that they have smells like bleach and it's not really drinkable. Aguilar said her clients were forced to pay $3 for a bottle of water or less than $40 for a case. Ice director Todd Lyon stated in a recent news release that families in Dilly receive
essential daily living needs.
General Contractor Corps civic operates Dilly their website states that the facility gets the same clean drinking water supplied to the town. I'm Cory Cook and San Antonio. This is NPR News in Washington. A car bomb exploded outside a police station in Belfast last night.
Police say a delivery vehicle was hijacked and has driver forced to drive to the station carrying the bomb. There were no injuries, a 1998 piece of agreement had ended decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, but there are occasional attacks by nationalist militants opposed to Britain's rule.
History has been made and made again at this year's London Marathon, Vicky Barker reports. In any other year, Yomif Kajelko would have been guaranteed instant stardom. He ran the London course in one hour, 59 minutes and 41 seconds, breaking the fable two-hour barrier in this, his Marathon debut. But the Ethiopian was 11 seconds behind the winner Kenyus Sebastian Saway who beat the previous
world record by 65 seconds.
Ethiopian tickets to Sephirb wrote her own women's only world record winning her second consecutive
London Marathon in two hours, 15 minutes and 41 seconds. A record 59,000 runners were expected to complete this year's race and organizers hope next years event will run over two days, allowing 100,000 runners to take part. For NPR News, I'm Tiki Barker, in London. In women's basketball, Indiana fever star Caitlin Clark was back on the court last night,
playing in her first WNBA game in nine months due to injuries. She scored the first basket of the game and finished with seven points, four assists, seven three rebounds. It was a preseason game at Clark said it felt good. I'm Noraram, NPR News in Washington.
