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Korva Coleman
in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. NPR has learned the suspected gunman at Saturday night's White House correspondent's dinner has been identified as 31 year old Cole Allen. NPR's Lydia Calitri reports. He's a teacher and Engineer from Torrance, California.
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Tamara Keith
Cole.
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Lydia Calitri
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.
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Korva Coleman
NPR's Lydia Calitri report. The suspect is scheduled to be arraigned 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 Tamara Keith reports, he is also back to criticizing the press and Democrats.
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Tamara Keith
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 as president can do to change the trajectory in the country.
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Donald Trump
It's always been there. People are assassinated, people are injured, people are hurt. And I'm not sure that there's any more now than there was. I do think that the hate speech of the Democrats, much more so, is very dangerous. I really think it's very dangerous for the country.
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Tamara Keith
Of the alleged attacker, Trump said he was radicalized and quote, probably a pretty sick guy. To Tamara Keith, NPR News.
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Korva Coleman
Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla arrive in Washington today for a state visit. British officials say despite the thwarted attack over the weekend, the Royals visit will go ahead as planned. But the trip also comes at a time when relations between the US and the UK are under increasing strain. NPR's Fatima Al Kassab has more.
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Fatima Al Kassab
President Trump has sharply criticised the UK And British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in recent months over Starmer's decision not to join the US In Israel's war in Iran. Many hope the visit from King Charles, whom the president still admires, will help mend the transatlantic relationship. But royal biographer Catherine Mayer says the British government's decision to send the king at this turbulent time puts the royal couple in an awkward position.
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Catherine Mayer
There is also then a kind of series of tightropes that they're forcing Charles and Camilla to walk by doing this.
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Fatima Al Kassab
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 Kassab, NPR News, London.
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Korva Coleman
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Wildfires continue to burn in northern Florida and southern Georgia. Officials say a volunteer firefighter has died in Florida from a medical emergency a 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 WABE in Atlanta, Alex Helmick reports there are still two large Georgia fires burning out of control.
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Alex Helmick
The Highway 82 fire began nearly a week ago about 100 miles southwest of Savannah, officials say, when a foil balloon hit 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.
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Korva Coleman
There have been deadly tornadoes this weekend in the central part of the US at least two people died when a tornado passed through towns near Dallas on Saturday. There were more tornadoes reported in Kansas and Oklahoma yesterday. One tornado confirmed by the National Weather Service hit the town of Columbus, Kansas, close to the border with Oklahoma. There are no reports of injuries. You're listening to npr.
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