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Chapter 1: Who is Cole Allen and what happened at the White House Correspondents Dinner?
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. The suspected gunman from Saturday night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington, D.C., has been identified as Cole Allen of Torrance, California. He'll make his first court appearance on Monday, where he's expected to face weapons and assault charges.
Reporter Steve Futterman is working to try and better understand who Cole Allen is.
NPR has confirmed that Allen visited gun ranges in Southern California. He attended at least one No Kings march. In a LinkedIn page that appears to belong to him, he describes himself as a mechanical engineer and computer scientist by degree, independent game developer by experience, and teacher by birth.
The LinkedIn profile page also states that while he was at the universities of Caltech, he was in the Christian Fellows Program. NPR, by the way, did not find any criminal records when conducting a background check of Allen.
That's Steve Futterman in California with our report. President Trump is pointing to Saturday's shooting as a reason to finish the controversial White House ballroom now under construction. NPR's Franco Ordonez says more.
President Trump says the shooting would never have happened if it were held in the new ballroom he's having built at the White House. He called the Washington Hilton not a particularly secure site, as he explained on Fox News. Well, it's always tough when you have a thousand rooms. It's a large hotel right on top.
And so people come down in elevators and they're right over the top of where you're speaking, not very far away. And it's pretty tough. And, you know, as you know, we're building a big, beautiful, very, very secure ballroom in every way with. A massive bulletproof glass that's almost four inches thick. The White House ballroom is facing legal hurdles.
Even if it is built, it's not clear if the dinner could be held there. The annual event is private. Franco Ordonez, NPR News.
In a federal court in Oakland on Monday, Elon Musk, who's the world's richest man and OpenAI's most prominent early backer, is demanding damages from the AI company he helped found. Those damages could reach as high as $134 billion. Rachel Myrove, member of station KQED, has more on that story.
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of President Trump's comments on the shooting?
Nellie Korda led wire-to-wire this weekend in the LPGA Classic in Houston, finishing with the five-stroke win. It's her third major win, and it lifts her back to the number one spot in women's golf. Korda shot a 72 on Sunday to seal the win. Patti Tabatana-Kidd of Thailand finished strong and landed in second, while Runing Yin from China finished in third. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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