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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman.
What happened during the Seattle food-festival shooting near the Space Needle?
Three people were killed and four others injured early Sunday evening during a shooting in Seattle. Casey Martin from KUOW in Seattle reports.
The shooting happened close to the Space Needle at a large food festival with hundreds of people around. At least one person is in critical condition. A two-year-old is among the injured. Jessica Allison was there with her young daughter and husband.
It's like pop, pop, pop. And I was like, that's fireworks, right? Like that's someone being silly. And then we heard and it was just a spray of bullets. And then we heard it again. And then you hear people screaming and we saw people running. And I just looked at him and I said, oh, my God. And he grabbed our daughter and he was gone.
Seattle's mayor said in a statement that at least one person has been taken into custody and called the shooting an act of horrific violence. For NPR News, I'm Casey Martin in Seattle.
Fighting between the U.S. and Iran has stopped, at least for now. The U.S. hasn't launched any new attacks for more than two days.
What eyewitness accounts describe how families and children were affected by the Seattle shooting?
But U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz says President Trump still has all options available to him.
Talks are ongoing. They're happening at every level, from the more traditional, technical aspect of it, all the way to the highest levels, of course, within both the Iranian government and the U.S. government. What we are constantly seeing, though, is on the Iranian regime side, they are divided. There is internal fighting.
Waltz was speaking Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press. He also said without evidence that the Trump administration inherited a depleted supply of munitions. FBI Director Kash Patel is in China. He says the FBI is delivering in the fields of cybersecurity, combating money laundering efforts and violent crimes against children. Jan Kamensen Brumby has our reports.
Patel says the FBI has built relationships and found common ground to work with others. The statement comes as the US and China agreed to more exchanges and cooperation on law enforcement following meetings between Patel and Beijing's Minister of Public Security, Wang Xiaohong. Wang said that China and the US should engage in a, quote, more constructive dialogue. Patel said previously his trip to Beijing would serve to continue work on closing fentanyl precursor pipelines and expanding operations targeting scam centers. Patel has previously said the Chinese government were the biggest counterintelligence threat facing the United States, and called for the U.S. to work together with Beijing. For NPR News, I'm Jan Cummins-Renby in Taipei.
In Spain, evacuations are now underway in the Valencia region because of several wildfires burning there. Tens of thousands of people have been forced out of their homes, both there and west of Madrid. And in France, a raging wildfire in the southwestern part of that country led to the evacuation of 55,000 more people overnight, the fires growing closer to the famed Bordeaux wine region.
What update did Seattle officials give about arrests and the mayor’s reaction to the violence?
You're listening to NPR News. More than 30 U.S. states have banned AI from campaign ads without a disclosure to voters that the footage isn't real. But enforcement varies from state to state. In Tennessee, Mariana Bakayev of member station WPLN reports that candidates might not face any consequences for breaking the law.
Two Republican frontrunners for Congress have both used AI against the other. In one ad by former Congressman Van Hillary, he shows an AI-generated version of his opponent, Johnny Garrett, at a gay pride parade.
Because woke, DEI-loving Johnny Garrett wants to transition Tennessee from conservative to woke.
The ad intentionally misrepresents Garrett, who has campaigned against DEI and LGBTQ rights.
Why has U.S.–Iran fighting paused and what are officials saying about negotiations?
But Garrett also uses AI in his ad showing Hillary driving a campaign bus into a swamp. For either candidate to face consequences, they'd either have to sue each other or a voter would have to formally file a complaint. So far, neither has happened. For NPR News, I'm Marianna Bakayau in Nashville.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:04
2
What happened during the Seattle food-festival shooting near the Space Needle?
0:04–1:01
3
What eyewitness accounts describe how families and children were affected by the Seattle shooting?
1:01–2:57
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What update did Seattle officials give about arrests and the mayor’s reaction to the violence?
2:57–3:44
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Why has U.S.–Iran fighting paused and what are officials saying about negotiations?
3:44–5:00