>> Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corva Coleman, NPR has learned the su...
at Saturday night's White House Correspondence dinner has been identified as 31-year-old Cole Allen, NPR's Lydia Colletry reports, he's a teacher in engineer from Torrance, California. >> Cole Allen graduated from Caltech in 2017 and worked as a part-time teacher at a tutoring service for high school students in Torrance, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.
The White House says Allen wanted to target administration officials.
“A White House official not authorized to speak publicly says the Secret Service spoke with”
Allen's sister. She told them her brother had a tendency to make radical statements and his rhetoric constantly referenced a plan to do "something" to fix the issues with today's world. >> NPR's Lydia Colletry reporting, the suspect is scheduled to be a rain today in Washington on multiple federal charges.
President Trump is praising the response of the Secret Service and law enforcement to the attack on the event, but as NPR's camera Keith reports, he is also back to criticizing the press and Democrats. >> In the hours after the dinner, Trump hit a note of unity. Then Sunday in an interview with 60 minutes, he was asked about political violence in America,
and what he is president can do to change the trajectory in the country.
>> To always be there, people are assassinated, people are injured, people are hurt, and
I'm not sure that it's any more now than it was. I do think that the hate speech of the Democrats much more so is very dangerous.
“I really think it's very dangerous to the country.”
>> Of the alleged attacker, Trump said he was radicalized and, quote, "probably a pretty sick guy." >> Tamer Keith and PR news, Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived in Washington today for a state visit. British officials say, despite the thwarted attack over the weekend, the royal's visit
will go ahead as planned, but the trip also comes at a time when relations between the U.S. and the U.K. are under increasing strain, and P.S. Fatima Al-Kasab has more. >> President Trump has sharply criticized the U.K. and British Prime Minister Kiaz-Stommer in recent months, over Stommer's decision not to join the U.S. and Israel's war in Iran. Many hope the visit from King Charles, whom the President still admires, will help men
to the transatlantic relationship. But royal biography Catherine Mayer says the British government's decision to send the king at this turbulent time puts the royal couple in an awkward position.
“>> There is also then a kind of series of tight ropes that they're forcing, Charles and”
Camilla to walk by doing this. Another delicate matter she says is the subject of the king's disgraced brother, Andrew, who had close ties with convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, Fatima Al-Kasab and Piannih's London. >> You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
Wildfires continue to burn in northern Florida and southern Georgia. The official say of volunteer firefighter is died in Florida from a medical emergency while working on a brush fire. In Georgia officials say they're battling several fires, too, including new ones that broke out over the weekend.
From member station W.A.B.E. in Atlanta, Alex Helmick reports that are still too large, Georgia fires burning out of control. >> The Highway 82 fire began nearly a week ago about a hundred miles southwest of Savannah. Officials say when a foil balloon had a power line.
And over the dry windy weekend, a Brantley County official said it has basically doubled
in size to more than 21,000 acres and is just 7% contained as of late Sunday. Meanwhile, about 70 miles south of the Highway 82 fire, the Pineland fire has grown to more than 32,000 acres and is threatening more than 300 structures. Officials say a new round of evacuation orders could come soon as more dry, warm temperatures and wind gusts are expected Monday.
Smoke from the fires is also causing air quality concerns for several parts of the state. For NPR News, I'm Alex Helmick in Atlanta. >> There have been deadly tornadoes this weekend in the central part of the U.S. at least two people died when a tornado passed through towns near Dallas on Saturday. The remort tornadoes reported in Kansas and Oklahoma yesterday.
One tornado confirmed by the National Weather Service hit the town of Columbus, Kansas, to the border with Oklahoma. There are no reports of injuries. You're listening to NPR. >> You know, every day on up first NPR's golden globe nominated morning news podcast,
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