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What happened at the White House Correspondents Association dinner?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. The man who authorities say tried to storm the White House Correspondents Association dinner with guns and knives has been charged with attempted assassination of President Trump. Prosecutors say Cole Allen wrote a letter to his family members saying he was targeting administration officials.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch said journalists were among those to blame for political violence in the U.S.
And many people in this room, if we're going to be honest about it, have done it, has done it as well. They're just as guilty as a lot of people on X. When you have reporters, when you have media just being overly critical and calling the president horrible names for no reason and without evidence, without proof, it shouldn't surprise us that this type of rhetoric takes place.
Officials say Allen was injured during the attack but was not shot. A Secret Service officer was shot but was wearing a bullet-resistant vest and survived. First Lady Melania Trump is criticizing late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel for a joke he made about her. As NPR's Mondele Del Barco reports, President Trump is again calling for him to be fired.
Jimmy Kimmel made his jab during a sketch on his late-night show last week, a mock speech for an alternative White House correspondent's dinner. Our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania. So beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.
Kimmel's sketch ran two days before the real White House Correspondents' Dinner, when an alleged would-be assassin tried to storm the ballroom. In a post on X, Melania Trump called Kimmel's joke about her hateful and violent, and she asked network ABC, which airs his show, to take a stand. The president then called for ABC and parent company Disney to immediately fire him.
In September, the network did briefly suspend Kimmel's show after he commented on the MAGA response to the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Mandelita Barco, NPR News.
The U.S. Department of Education normally funds millions of dollars in special education research. As NPR's Junaki Mehta reports, the federal agency may leave most of the money set aside for such research unspent.
The Education Department has until September 30th to spend $77 million on special education research and evaluation programs. An advocacy group called Knowledge Alliance analyzed department data and found that about 84% of that money is still unspent. By this point in the year, there would normally be federal notices or plans to launch grant competitions to use the money, but none exist.
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