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Live from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, President Trump has a couple of high-pro...

on his schedule today, both as Rayleigh Prime Minister Benjamin Netten-Yoh, and Ukrainian President

Bole-Demir Zelensky are in town and are expected to meet separately with Trump at the White

House. Both men are also to attend today's Memorial Service at Washington National Cathedral for the late Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.

He's in Seattle still searching for a third suspect in connection with a shooting at a crowded

food festival Sunday night at left three people dead. Authorities say a 15-year-old was arrested at the scene and that a second suspect was killed during the shooting, ready to mourn ours, a member stationed in K.N.K. X reports. Police say a 19-year-old man in a 44-year-old man died at the scene. A 56-year-old woman was later declared dead at a nearby hospital.

Seattle police chief Sean Barnes says law enforcement disarmed a person who was actively firing a weapon into a crowd. We believe that the bullets that were fired were from two individuals who appear to be firing at one another, and as the mayor stated, a 15-year-old suspect was taken into custody.

Police are asking for witnesses to come forward with any information about the second suspect.

At least four people were injured in the shooting, including a two-year-old boy who remains in the hospital. Friend PR News, I'm Freddy Monadis in Seattle. State said rely on the Colorado River, expecting word this week on a new federal plan for sharing water from the shrinking Colorado.

The interior department is coming up with the new rules, because the seven states to use the river have been unable to come to an agreement. Alex Hager is with member stationed K.J. Z.Z. in Phoenix. We don't know the exact size of cutbacks yet, but Arizona, Nevada, and California are probably going to lose the most water.

We expect the biggest cut cuts to hit the Phoenix and Tucson areas, and officials say the exact size of those cuts will probably be announced Friday.

More than a million acres of mostly-wrained land have now burned in Oregon and PR's

Kirk Sigler reports more than two dozen fire stretching resources and causing thousands

to evacuate. The wildfires have closed highways across central and eastern Oregon, including stretches of Interstate 84 that links Boise, Idaho to Portland, Oregon. Most are burning in remote federal range land and on private ranches, and are causing major headaches for ranchers, who are having to move cattle away from the flames with

sometimes no warning. Oregon is coming off its driest and warmest winter on record with very little snowpack and now extremely dry fuels, including invasive grasses. The governor has declared states of emergency and multiple counties in the state is now considered the top federal firefighting priority in the country.

Kirk Sigler and PR News Boisey. "Have you selling of stocks and chip makers have led to losses on Asian financial markets today? This is NPR. A new change to the asylum process by a Department of Homeland Security Agency could

result in more cases being sent to immigration court. The goal is to reduce the backlog of cases, but in Paris, the amount of a steel reports on warnings that people could get stuck in the process." A asylum is a protection immigrants can ask for once they are already in the country, typically they can apply at USCIS directly if they are here legally, like on a visa.

The immigration court system is usually reserved for people who are already in the deportation process, but in new rule will allow USCIS officers to send cases to immigration court without

interviewing the immigrant first.

USCIS director Joseph Edlow said in a statement that the asylum system has been exploited by people wanting a work permit, and not with legitimate fear of persecution. But immigration lawyers warn that an immigration court's asylum approvals are at a record low, and people with valid claims of persecution might be denied. He metabustio and PR News Washington.

"The FAA is warning about hundreds of passenger seats on Boeing 737 Max Jets, the FAA among the issue to propose to airworthiness directive, saying the seats may require inspections in case they were incorrectly installed." The proposed directive says the seats could injure passengers and crew members during an emergency landing or block the aisle and slow in evacuation.

A Boeing spokesman says it issue guidance about the issue in December and supports the FAA making the fixed mandatory that director would apply to hundreds of Max Jets registered in the U.S. "I'm trial Snyder, MPR News." We just passed the one year Marksons Congress eliminated federal funding for public media.

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