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suspected of carrying out Saturday night shooting at the White House Correspondence Association Dinner has been formally charged with trying to assassinate the president. 31-year-old Cole Allen has also charged with transporting a firearm or ammunition in interstate commerce
and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence. Allen made his first appearance
and federal court yesterday in Washington. He's due back in court on Thursday. The White House says it's open to potential changes being made to presidential security as a result of Saturday night shooting at the Washington Hilton. NPR's Daniel Kurtz-Labin has more." In response to a question about the incident, White House press Secretary Caroline Levitt stressed that President Trump believes that Saturday's security protocols worked, but
added that changes could happen.
“"I definitely wouldn't say changes are out of the question. I think again it's up to the”
White House here and we've viewed as a great responsibility to ensure the maximum safety of the president and the vice president in the entire cabinet." Levitt also argued that Democratic politicians rhetoric helps foster political violence. She did not address, however, what part the president might play in making political rhetoric more civil. Daniel Kurtz-Labin and PR News the White House
Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla have begun their four-day state visit to the U.S., they arrived at the White House yesterday, where they had tea with President Trump
and First Lady Melania. Later today, the president and the king are scheduled to hold
a bilateral meeting before Charles heads to Capitol Hill to address members of Congress. The king's mother, Queen Elizabeth, spoke at the Capitol in 1991. Hundreds of employees at Google say they're concerned about how the Pentagon might use its
“powerful artificial intelligence systems. They've sent a letter to the company's chief”
executive as the NPR's Bobby Allen reports. "We're then 600 Google employees wrote to CEO Sundar Pachai that, quote, "We want to see AI benefit humanity, not see it being used in inhumane or extremely harmful ways. The demand comes as Pentagon leaders have pressed tech companies to harness AI for all lawful uses, a category Google workers' fear, will mean its tools will be deployed for
autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Anthropic the maker of Claude has been locked in a legal stand-off with the Trump administration. Over the company's refusal to give defense officials access to its technology without guardrails. The Google letter urges the company to reject any contracts that involve classified work, which the employees say could violate human rights." Google and the Pentagon did not return requests for comment.
Bobby Allen and PR News
“Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis has unveiled a proposed redrawn congressional map, which”
he says could help Republicans flip for house seats in the November midterm elections, it would be subject to the approval of GOP-led state lawmakers in Tallahassee. This is NPR News from Washington. The CEO of United Airlines says he approached American Airlines with the idea of a potential merger but was rebuffed by the rival carrier. In a statement, United Chief Scott Kirby
says he believes a merger would have been good for airline passengers and could have won the approval of federal regulators. He says American Airlines would not engage and publicly close the door on the idea. In Washington State, two books have broken the record for the oldest ever return to a library. Courtney flat with Northwest Public Broadcasting says the books had been checked out in the 1960s.
A good Samaritan in Richmond, Washington recently inherited an old book collection from a friend while thumbing through the books they discovered two belong to the Richland Public Library. The checkout cards were dated 1962. Before that, the longest the book state checked out was about a year. Chris Nulf 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. For Imperial News, I'm Courtney Flat in Richland, Washington. Triple A says gasoline prices in the US are climbing again despite an ongoing ceasefire between the US and Iran. The price of regular has jumped six cents a gallon since yesterday and 15 cents over the last week. Wall Street futures
are higher this morning. I'm Dave Madingley in Washington. Every day NPR reports stories that keep you informed without fear or favor. That's the promise of a free press in a democracy.
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