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On the next through line from NPR.
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The man who saw a dangerous omission in the U.S. constitution and took it upon himself to fix it.
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If something happened to a president who is still alive, the consequences for the country would have been enormous.
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The 25th Amendment. Listen in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Ramm. Gunfire erupted this morning at a Catholic church in Minneapolis, killing two children and injuring 17 others, including children. Authorities have identified the shooter as 23 year old Robin Westman. NPR's Juliana Kim reports.
Juliana Kim (0:43)
Minnesota Governor Tim Wall says students were in the middle of their first week of classes when the unthinkable happened.
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Filled with the first days of school, beautiful children going to learn those values, share with their teachers and their classmates. And instead of that joy and that curiosity, that learning, they were met with evil and horror and death.
Juliana Kim (1:06)
Local authorities said 14 children between the ages of 6 and 15 were injured by gunfire. Three adult parishioners who were in their 80s were also wounded. Investigators also said the shooter appeared to have no prior criminal history, but they were currently reviewing an apparent manifesto written by Westman. Juliana Kim, NPR News.
Nora Ramm (1:27)
At least a dozen employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency have been suspended. NPR's Rebecca Hersher reports. The workers signed their names to a public letter warning that the Trump administration is undercutting the agency's ability to respond to disasters.
Rebecca Hersher (1:43)
The letter was sent to Congress on Monday and was signed by nearly 200 current and former employees. Most of the signatories were anonymous. Among the concerns detailed in that letter, they note that FEMA's leader has no experience managing disaster response. This as peak hurricane season gets underway. Now, at least a dozen FEMA workers who signed the letter have been suspended. That's according to the advocacy group Stand up for Science, which helped publicize the letter and spoke directly to those employees. FEMA did not respond to questions from NPR about the suspended employees. Rebecca Hersher, NPR News.