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The man accused of opening fire during Saturday's White House Correspondence dinner is expected
“to make his first court appearance later this hour.”
See Fetterman reports investigators are learning more about 31-year-old Cole Allen's life in Southern California. FBI agents went door to door yesterday speaking with neighbors of the suspect, trying to figure out what may have led him to carry out his attack at the Correspondence dinner. Those who know Allen say they can't figure it out.
Moses, Jim Bezzy, and whose church Allen attended when he was in college, says he was a popular person.
"He was faithful and because of the tendency, and he was always friendly and courteous to
everyone." Officials believe Allen traveled from California to Washington by train, possibly as a way to avoid detection by bypassing more stringent security measures on air flights. For MPR News, I'm Steve Fetterman, in Los Angeles. NPR has learned that White House chief of staff Susie Wells is expected to convene a security
meeting, following Saturday shooting outside the Washington Hilton Ballroom where the president, Vice President, lawmakers and hundreds more guests were gathered for the annual dinner.
“MSNow investigative journalist Carol Lenning says she's spoken with current and former secret”
service agents about security protocol at such events. "There's a playbook if you will for how to work with security at the Hilton.
And it hasn't changed a lot over the years.
It was certainly heightened for this event at the Hilton in some small ways. But in many ways, it is identical to other presidential visits. And the threat climate is actually a lot higher than secret service agents are concerned about that." Carol Lenning on NPR is here and now, while despite heightened security concerns, the White
House is preparing to greet King Charles and Queen Camilla today. Private T kicks off four days of the British monarch's state visit. Bahrain is chairing a high-level meeting at the United Nations on maritime security and it is using the meeting to call on Iran to reopen the state of Hormuz. Here's NPR's Michelle Kellerman.
The Foreign Minister of Bahrain was surrounded by dozens of ambassadors including Mike Waltz of the U.S. to show a united front against Iran. The statement by Abdullah Tief bin Rashid al-Zayani did not mention the U.S. role in blockade Iranian ports. "We are already seeing global consequences from Iranian actions which are impeeding international
shipping. Driving up course and sending shock waves through energy markets." U.N. Secretary General Antonio Gueterra says his office is ready to help the parties reach an agreement to reopen the state to, in his words, let the global economy breathe. Michelle Kellerman and PR news the United Nations.
U.S. stocks are mixed the sour the Dow is down 62 points, you're listening to NPR News. The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today about geo-fensing, a relatively new law enforcement technique that allows police to tap into giant, tacked databases in order to learn who was near the scene of a crime and may have been involved and piercing a totem bird with a tails.
Geofencing allows police and prosecutors to draw a virtual fence around an area where a crime was committed and then with the aid of a judicial warrant to require, in this case, Google, to identify any of its customers who were in the vicinity of the bank on the day it was robbed. The case is the latest clash between law enforcement and privacy.
The Geofencing in today's case relied on a Google feature called Location History that 500 million people voluntarily joined. The Trump administration argues that since the Google customers voluntarily allowed Google servers to track their movements, they have no right to privacy for that information. Nina Totenberg and PR News Washington.
The Democratic Republic of Congo says it is creating a paramilitary guard to secure mining operations in the country backed by US and Emirati investments. The new unit could involve as many
as 3,000 people. It would be operational by December. Congo is a source of critical minerals.
“It is a major supplier of a mineral essential for electronics.”
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