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Giles Snyder
O.Com live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. Police in Minneapolis have stepped up patrols around houses of worship following Wednesday's shooting during Mass at Annunciation Catholic church and school. NPR's Jason DeRose reports that area clergy are working to comfort a grieving community after inexplicable loss.
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Pastor Sarah Jensen
Pastor Sarah Jensen of Lutheran Church of Christ Redeemer says she often hears people say God doesn't give us anything we can't handle.
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I don't believe that God gives us things one way or the other. The world gives us things and often the world gives us things we can't handle.
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But that doesn't mean, Jensen says, abandonment.
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God gives us each other because we can't handle everything on our own. We weren't created for that. We were created to lean on each other.
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Jensen says neighbors, friends and congregations can help taboo each other in a world that sometimes scary and often doesn't make sense. Jason DeRose, NPR News, Minneapolis.
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Giles Snyder
Two students were killed in the shooting, 18 wounded, nearly all of them children. At least seven victims were still hospitalized as of Saturday. Chinese President Xi Jinping says China and India are partners and not rivals.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping
The world today is swept by once in a century transformations. The international situation is both fluid and chaotic. China and India are the world's most populous countries. It's the right choice for both sides to be friends who have neighbourly and amicable ties, partners who enable each other's success and to have the dragon and the elephant dance together.
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Giles Snyder
President Xi heard through a BBC interpreter. He and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met today on the sidelines of a regional security summit in the Chinese city of Tianjin. Modi is on his first visit to China since relations deteriorated after border clashes five years ago between Chinese and Indian soldiers. The meeting coincides with President Trump's decision to impose steep tariffs on India because it continues to buy Russian oil. The labor movement preparing for mass Labor Day protests across the country. NPR's Andrea Hsu reports. Organizers have planned a events in all 50 states.
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Andrea Hsu
The theme of many of these events is workers over billionaires. AFL CIO President Lou Schuller says workers have stood up to billionaires before.
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AFL CIO President Lou Schuller
But what we've never seen is those same CEOs and billionaires being handed full control of our government, our democracy, our lives.
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Andrea Hsu
She highlighted four members of President Trump's cabinet who fit that category. Shuler says Trump is reversing progress on union jobs, including by stripping most federal workers of their collective bargaining rights and putting immigrant workers and their families in a state of fear. Meanwhile, in a proclamation, Trump called the American worker the beating heart of the economy and said his administration is restoring the dignity of labor. Andrea Hsu, NPR News.
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Giles Snyder
This is NPR News. The president of Indonesia has canceled a trip to China. Days of protests over excessive housing allowances that lawmakers gave themselves have spread further outside the Capitol. Former CBS News Radio White House correspondent Mark Knoller has died at the age of 73. Known as a number guy, listeners and later social media users counted on him for his meticulous record keeping of the president's activity. Here's NPR's Amy Held reporting.
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Amy Held
Born in Brooklyn in 1952, Mark Noler became known as the Wikipedia of the White House starting at CBS News in 1988. The network says he grew frustrated by the lack of a central database chronicling the president's daily actions. He became an unofficial presidential statistician.
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Mark Knoller
Let me pull up my numbers, a.
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Amy Held
Lot of numbers, how many trips the president made and where summits and golf outings. He tallied speeches and interviews, the minutiae that make history. Knoller reported across eight administrations and didn't mind the long hours. He told CBS's Katie Couric, I'm one.
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Mark Knoller
Of those lucky people that gets to work at something he loves doing.
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Amy Held
Knoller retired from the radio in 2020, but kept up on Twitter as a source of presidential Amy Held, NPR News.
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Giles Snyder
The Powerball jackpot now tops $1 billion. The lottery says there was no winner from last night's drawing and that no one has matched all six numbers since the end of May, allowing the jackpot to grow to an estimated $1.1 billion, which would be Powerball's fifth largest jackpot ever. The next drawing is tomorrow night. I'm Jahiel Snyder, NPR News.
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