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and I shooting at the White House correspondence dinner made his first court appearance
“today. 31 year old Cole Allen faces three charges, including trying to assassinate President”
Trump. In Paris, Ryan Lucas was in the courtroom. This was Allen's initial court appearance. He was in the room wearing blue prison outfit. He sat at the defense table with two public defenders who the judge had appointed as his counsel. Now, the magistrate judge explained the proceedings to Allen asked Allen a few questions. He responded to many of those questions with either yes your honor or no your honor. The judge also ordered this case unsealed.
An Allen has been charged by criminal complaint with three counts. The most serious one attempted assassination of the U.S. President. The other two charges are both related to the guns he allegedly had on him on Saturday. MPR is Ryan Lucas reporting. President Trump met Monday with his national security team. The White House says they discussed the latest Iranian proposal to bring the war to an end. The terms have not been made public. But the
“Associated Press is reporting that Iran is offering to reopen the state, who for moves and”
exchange for an end to the U.S. Naval blockade. Iran also reportedly wants to set aside nuclear negotiations until after the war ends. Oil prices mean while above $109 a barrel. Today is Iran's 59th day of an internet blackout, the internet freedom monitor, net blocks as it's Iran's longest ever shut down, but a story of mascara and reports a few are still getting online. Net blocks reports Iran's internet use goes up to about 2% of normal levels. Specialized virtual
private networks or VPNs are being sold on the black market for about $10 per gigabyte of data. Google searches work intermittently. Iran does have a functioning internal web called an internet. So, services like local banking are still functional. But some Iranian officials are raising concerns about the economic cost of being cut off from the outside world. For MPR news, I'm Gary Buskaren, in Istanbul. George got so much needed rainfall over the
“weekend, but not nearly enough to put out two wildfires at a burn more than 50,000 acres in”
the southern part of the state. Emily Johnson member station W. A. B. E. reports. Dozens of homes have been destroyed and scores of people have had to evacuate. Many are clamoring to get back home. Brantley County Manager Joey Kasin says officials are allowing some people to return home, but they should be ready to evacuate again if necessary. Just understand that safety is the biggest concern that this whole group is worried about,
trying to make sure that we get folks back in their homes as soon as possible, but safely as possible. Fire officials say they're expecting more wind later in the week, which could spread the fire farther. For NPR News, I'm Emily Jones in Atlanta. And you're listening to NPR News. King Charles will be on Capitol Hill Tuesday to address a joint meeting of Congress.
The speech will only be the second time that a British monarch has addressed a joint
meeting of both the House and Senate. That's after Queen Elizabeth, 1991. Charles and Queen Camilla arrived in the U.S. Monday afternoon on a four-state visit aimed at celebrating the U.S.'s 250th anniversary. Meanwhile, the British Parliament is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to authorize an investigation into whether Prime Minister Kier Stormer misled Parliament over the appointment of former U.S. Ambassador Peter Mandelson. Stormer fire
Mandelson last September after his relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was found to be more extensive than previously known. Two books have broken a Washington State Library's record for the oldest ever returned. Northwest Public Broadcasting's Courtney Flat has more. A good Samaritan in Richland, Washington recently inherited an old book collection from a friend. While thumbing through the books, they discovered two
belonged to the Richland Public Library. The checkout cards were dated 1962. Before that, the longest the book stayed checked out was about a year. Chris North manages the library. He says both books were biographies on Henry Ford. In the books, too, we found a form about how to write essays. So they think perhaps the books were loaned to a student. If the library had collected overdue fees, which they no longer do, they would have told about $3,000.
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