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In Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. Authorities in Utah are calling the killing of right wing activist Charlie Kirk a targeted attack. NPR's Kirk Siegler reports. Two people initially taken into custody in connection with the shooting have been released.
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Wednesday's shooting here at Utah Valley University is still in active investigation as a manhunt continues. The large, sprawling campus north of Provo is closed and police were seen barricading all the entrances. Details are few, but police say they're working multiple active crime scenes. The shooter is believed to have fired down from the roof of a building to the outdoor event where Kirk was speaking. Graphic video posted to social media shows a chaotic scene as people ran for cover. There were an estimated 3,000 people in attendance and six police officers. Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Orem, Utah.
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Colorado authorities say a teenager shot and wounded two other students yesterday at his high school outside Denver. He then took his own life. One of the wounded students is in critical condition. There's no word of a possible motive for the shooting. Opening statements are set for next hour. In Florida in the trial of the man charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump last year. NPR's Greg Allen reports. The judge hearing the case is allowing the defendant, Ryan Ruth, to represent himself.
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Ryan Ruth was arrested in September after a Secret Service agent said he spotted him holding a rifle near where Trump was golfing in West Palm Beach. Ruth is a former contractor, not a lawyer. But in a series of hearings, he told U.S. district Judge Eileen Cannon he was dissatisfied with with his federal public defenders and wanted to represent himself in court. He'll be delivering an opening statement in his own defense today. Judge Cannon has ordered his former attorneys to remain on standby. Most of the people he wants to call as witnesses are friends and co workers, people who are being called to testify on his character. If convicted, he faces a potential life sentence. Greg Allen, NPR News, Fort Pierce, Florida.
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As fall draws nearer, many people are thinking about vaccinations for flu and Covid, but NPR's Sidney Lupkin reports it may be harder to find Covid shots this year.
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The Food and Drug Administration's approvals for this year's Covid boosters are narrower, but drug companies say they're still making similar volumes of the jabs as last year. Claire Hannon is the executive director of the association of Immunization Managers. She says pharmacies are able to order the shots and they've been shipped out.
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I think it's going to be harder to access, but I think anybody that wants it, you know, will be able to get it, but they're just going to have to work hard to find it.
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She says patients can use vaccine finders, which Pfizer and Moderna both have up and running, to find pharmacies with COVID shots in their area. Sidney Lupkin, NPR News.
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Members of Congress will hold a moment of silence later this hour. It's to commemorate the nearly 3,000 victims who died on September 11, 24 years ago. Later this morning, President Trump will attend a memorial ceremony at the Pentagon. You're listening to npr. The British government has dismissed its ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson. Leaked emails have disclosed Mandelson expressed close support for late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. This comes after Senate Democrats lost a vote yesterday. Senate Republicans rejected the Democrats effort to force the Justice Department to release all information into the Epstein investigation. Smoke from the Canadian wildfires in 2023 poured into the U.S. for weeks. A new study reports more than 300 million people were affected by that smoke. NPR's Alejandro Barundo reports it contributed to at least 5,000 deaths.
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That was the summer when New Yorkers woke up to orange skies. People in Minnesota, New Hampshire and even Georgia got hit with haze and ash. For many, it was the first real experience dealing with wildfire smoke. A study now published in the journal Nature calculated the impacts it found. Smoke from those Canadian wildfires affected millions of people across North America and even Europe. And because wildfire smoke hurts people's lungs, hearts and even brains, the study found that it contributed directly to at least 5,000 deaths and played a smaller role in some 64,000 more. Scientists determined before that climate change played a role in making the 2023 wildfires worse. More major wildfires have plagued Canada again this summ. Alejandra Barunda, NPR News.
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The star of the next season of ABC's the Bachelorette will be influencer Taylor Frankie Paul. Paul is also the star of the series the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. I'm Korva Coleman, NPR News.
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