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Windsor Johnston
In Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. New information is emerging about the man who shot and killed four people yesterday in Manhattan before taking his own life. More from Steve Futterman in Los Angeles.
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Steve Futterman
Shane Tamura grew up here in the LA area. He was a running back on his high school football team. Mason Thomas was a teammate.
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Mason Thomas
My heart just dropped when I saw that it was Shane.
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Steve Futterman
Police in New York say Tamura claimed to be suffering from cte, a brain disorder often linked to repetitive hits, and that was why he appeared to be targeting the National Football League office located inside the building. Thomas never saw anyone but a regular teammate.
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Mason Thomas
I can't even, like, think of a time of him, like, raising his voice like he was very gentle.
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Steve Futterman
Tamura never played in the NFL. Most recently, he had been working as a security guard in Las Vegas. In a note recovered by police, Tamura said, please study my brain. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles.
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Windsor Johnston
The EPA says it wants to roll back a major climate finding that's been on the books since 2009. The original decision stated that greenhouse gases like carbo dioxide and methane, mostly from burning fossil fuels, pose a threat to public health and the environment. It gave the federal government the power to regulate those emissions under the Clean Air Act. Joe Goffman, former head of the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, says ignoring science won't change the fact that extreme weather is becoming more common.
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Joe Goffman
The chances of bad weather, severe weather events are going to increase. And that's what the science tells us and has been telling us for a long time. And that's what the reality we're all experiencing telling us as well.
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Windsor Johnston
The Trump administration is celebrating the proposal as a potential economic win and a boost to its agenda to increase fossil fuel use. The Health Ministry in Gaza says the death toll from Israeli airstrikes and attacks in the war has surpassed 60,000. NPR's Aya Batrawi reports. Nearly half of those killed have been women and children.
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Aya Batrawi
The Health Ministry says a third of the more than 60,000 people killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza are children. Groups like Oxfam, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the UN and others say Gaza is the deadliest place on earth for women, children, aid workers, journalists and medics. The latest figures from Gaza's Health ministry say nearly 18,600 children under the age of 18 have been killed in Israeli attacks. Another nearly 9,800 women are among the dead. The war began with Hamas's deadly attack on Israel nearly 22 months ago. The Health Ministry the country's death toll does not include people who've died as a result of malnutrition, lack of medicine and other consequences of the war. Under mounting international pressure, Israel is allowing more aid in, but aid groups say it's a fraction of what's needed. Eyel Batrawi, NPR News.
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Windsor Johnston
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern say they finalized a proposed merger of the two freight rail companies. The $85 billion merger would create the nation's first coast to coast rail network serving 43 states. Union Pacific says the deal would also link roughly 100 ports across the country. A Republican Congress member from Missouri has introduced legislation to officially change the name of the John F. Kennedy center for the Performing arts in Washington, D.C. to instead honor President Trump. But NPR's Neta Ulaby reports the bill may not have as much support in Congress as Trump hopes.
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Neta Ulaby
Renaming the Kennedy center after the current president has been under discussion ever since Trump took over the organization's board of trustees in February. Republicans recently voted as part of the Big Beautiful bill to dedicate more than $250 million towards improving the modernist cream colored building perched on the Potomac river that opened in 1971. But renaming the Kennedy center after President Trump or its opera house after his wife may run afoul of the laws that created it. The new legislation, introduced as the Make Entertainment Great Again act by Congressman Bob Onder, is expected to struggle to find enough votes to pass. Neta Ulupi, NPR News.
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Windsor Johnston
Stocks traded lower today on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 204 points at the close today to 44,632. The Nasdaq composite fell 80 points, the S&P 500 down 18. I'm Windsor Johnston, NPR News, in Washington.
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