"Life from NBR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
investigators are moving quickly, together evidence about the suspected gunmen who tried to storm the White House Correspondence dinner last night. President Trump was taken from
“the ballroom after the Secret Service subdued the suspect and appears Ryan Lucas has more."”
Acting Attorney General Todd Lange told CBS News his face the nation that the suspect in custody is not cooperating with investigators. Blanch did 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. "And Allen has a court date tomorrow. Meanwhile, Steve Futterman has more on what's known about Cole Allen." "He had recently been working for a company that provides tutoring and help students prepare for college entry exams. One of his tutoring students was this 17-year-old 11th-grader
Jason, we're only using his first name because he's a minor. Allen helped him prepare for his physics courses. I spoke with him last night. He said Allen's politics and ideology never came up."
"No, never. We would stay on top of the whole time. Never said anything about Trump or
anything like that. So he kept it. I guess he kept most of his opinions to himself." "It was he who could teach or did he help?" "Yeah, he was very helpful." Steve Futterman reporting. 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 reports, they're forced to buy bottled water at inflated prices. 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. I Sterector Todd Lyon stated in a recent news release that families in Dilly receive
“essential daily living needs. Federal contractor Corsivic 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." You as futures contracts are trading lower at this hour, Dow futures are down 133 points, Nasek futures are unchanged, you're listening to NPR news. In Southwestern Georgia, fire officials say one of two large wildfires burning in the state
continues to grow and has now burned more than 31 square miles. Bradley County manager, Joey Cason says on Facebook that the Highway 82 fire doubled in size from last night and wins today won't help. He says evacuation notices could be issued.
A second fire about 70 miles south of the Highway 82 fire near the Florida state line
burned more than 46 square miles. The fires are fed by high winds, hot, dry conditions, and a continuing drought. And smoke from the fires is also causing air quality concerns for several parts of the state.
“Millions of birds will be migrating across the U.S. tonight, that's why conservation”
groups are asking people to turn off or dim their lights if here's Lauren Summer has more. It's the annual spring migration, almost 250 million birds are traveling across the U.S. right now. Most birds migrate at night and summer on journeys that take them from South America
all the way to the Arctic. And official lights, like from buildings, can interfere with their navigation.
So conservation groups are asking residents to turn out or dim non-essential lights overnight
for the next few weeks. The biggest hotspots are in the south, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic states, as well as the West Coast, Lauren Summer, and PR News. Sebastian Saway is the first person to break the two-hour marathon barrier at the London marathon today.
He won the race in one hour, 59 minutes in 30 seconds. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington. Every story from shortwave and pure science podcasts starts with a question. Like, "Why do we have nightmares? How does AI affect my energy bill?"
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