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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. A member of the National Guard shot near the White House Wednesday remains hospitalized. His colleague died of her injuries Thursday. The suspect is an Afghan national who had worked for the CIA in Afghanistan. The State Department says it stopped issuing visas for anyone traveling on afghan passports. NPR's Dia Hadid has been speaking with Afghans who've been waiting for years to be allowed to come to the United States.
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These are really dark days for the sub 265,000 Afghans who advocates say were in the pipeline to come to the US Like Roshangar, he was in the Afghan military. He used to sign off on airstrikes targeting Taliban fighters. He's now in hiding in Afghanistan in fear of his life, which is why I won't use his full name. But Roshangar told me that he was ashamed of the Afghan national behind the.
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Wednesday attack in D.C. that's NPR's Dia Hadid reporting from Mumbai. Northwestern University has agreed to pay tens of millions of dollars to the federal government. It's an agreement that restores hundreds of millions in research funding withheld by the Trump administration. NPR's Alyssa Nadworny reports.
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Part of the deal would require Northwestern University, an elite school outside Chicago, to pay the government $75 million over the next three years. In exchange, the government will unfreeze $790 million in research funding that was canceled last spring over accusations of racial discrimination and anti Semitism. The agreement allows the college to retain full academic freedom and says the Trump administration will end all open investigations into the school. This deal follows similar deals the Trump administration has made with Cornell University, Brown University and Columbia University. Alyssa Nadworny, NPR News.
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This is the biggest shopping weekend of the year in the U.S. as NPR's Matt Bloom reports, retailers are seeing steady turnout despite some headwinds.
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At the Lakeside Shopping center outside New Orleans, shoppers came out in droves for a sip and shop event, which offered champagne for customers. Grandmother and granddaughter Sandra and Lacey Lemoine said they were having a fun day together.
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Take your grandma to the mall and make memories with her because it's the best thing to do. It's all about memories.
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A record number, nearly 170 million people are planning to shop in stores or online between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, according to an annual survey from the National Retail Federation. Adobe analytics, which tracks online transactions, says sales this year are topping last year by more than 9%, despite rising living costs and worries over tariffs. Matt Bloom, NPR News, in New Orleans.