Louise Schiavone

military, family and friends last night honored U.S.

Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, the 20-year-old soldier who died in an ambush while patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C.

At a vigil at her former high school in Webster County, West Virginia, school principal Greg Burleson remembered Beckstrom.

Like Beckstrom, Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe was critically injured, but he is still alive.

Suspect Ramanula Lakanwal, one of thousands of refugees from Afghanistan, now faces first-degree murder charges.

Police say he had driven across country to launch the ambush attack.

The Trump administration is halting all asylum decisions as a result of this shooting.

And they have paused the visa process for people traveling on Afghan passports.

and plan to review the status of Afghans already in the United States.

In Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney says that he plans to travel to Washington in the coming week and will see President Trump.

But as Dan Karpinchuk reports, Carney also cautioned Canadians not to read too much into the visit,

in connection with any resumption of trade talks.

This is NPR News in Washington.

On this heavy holiday travel day, the forecast is for heavy snow in parts of the Midwest.

Hundreds of flights out of Chicago have been canceled since yesterday.

The Atlantic hurricane season draws to an official close today with 13 named storms at three Category 5 hurricanes.

It did fulfill forecasts it would be an active season, but as NPR's Greg Allen reports, for the first time in a decade, no hurricane made landfall in the United States.

In Hong Kong, authorities say the death toll has risen to 146 in a massive apartment blaze that erupted Wednesday and burned for more than two days.

Investigators have been combing through seven blocks of buildings, finding bodies both inside apartments and on the roof.

The building contractor for the complex has 28 projects underway, all of which have been suspended by authorities, company leaders suspected of gross negligence.