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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. New information is emerging about the shooter who killed four people in Manhattan last night before turning the gun on himself. NPR Sarah Bentry reports the victims include an off duty police officer and an executive at a major investment firm.
The attacker has been identified as twenty-seven-year-old Shane Tamora of Las Vegas, once a star high school football player. New York City Mayor Eric Adams told MSNBC officers found a note with Tomora's body in which he mentioned CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy. It's a degenerative brain disorder that has been associated with aggression and suicidality and commonly affects football players.
We have reason to believe that he was focused on the NFL. Agency that was located in the building.
Adams also said it appears the shooter took the wrong elevator, winding up at an asset management firm instead. CTE can only be diagnosed through an autopsy. Sarah Ventry, NPR News, New York.
Convicted sex trafficker Gaylen Maxwell is asking a congressional committee to grant her immunity in exchange for testimony under a subpoena. NPR's Claudia Grasales reports Maxwell is also seeking to delay her appearance, hoping that the US Supreme Court will take up her case.
The House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena for Guy Len Maxwell's testimony next month, but her attorneys say that's too soon. In a letter to the committee, they argue the Supreme Court could take up her case when they reconvene in October. Maxwell also wants immunity to testify, but the committee is rejecting that idea. Oversight Chair James Comer said the subpoena for Maxwell is necessary as Republican lawmakers press for more information about the federal probe into Jeffrey Epstein and respond to demands from the party's base. The panel has not ruled out a delay in the high profile sit down. Claudia Ricelles, NPR News.
The U.S. trade deficit narrowed last month. NPR Scott Horsley reports on the latest figures released today by the Commerce Department.
The nation's trade gap narrowed in June to eighty six billion dollars. Exports and imports both fell during the month, but imports dropped more. Procter and Gamble says it expects President Trump's tariffs will cost the company about a billion dollars this year. The maker of Tide Laundry Detergent and Pampers Diapers plans to raise prices as a result. Two of the country's big freight railroads are proposing a merger that would allow cargo to go from coast to coast on the same corporate track. Union Pacific wants to buy Norfolk Southern in a deal valued at eighty five billion dollars. Scott Worsley, MPR News, Washington.
Stocks traded lower today on Wall Street. The Dow was down two hundred four points at the close. The Nasdaq composite fell eighty points. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. A new report from Swiss Bank UBS says about one in ten US adults has a net worth of at least one million dollars. Last year alone, the country added nearly a thousand new millionaires a day. But with inflation still running high, a million dollars doesn't stretch as far as it used to. The long list of nominees for this year's Booker Prize is out. Thirteen candidates are in the running for one of the most prestigious awards. awards recognizing works published in the UK. NPR's Andrew Limbong reports too are debut novelists.
The first time's the charm for Maria Reva and Lady of Joga. Reva's novel Endling is about a Ukrainian scientist studying snails until the war starts, and then it becomes about a woman writing a novel about a Ukrainian scientist studying snails. Joga's novel Misinterpretation follows an unnamed interpreter who gets very involved in the lives of people she's doing translations for. Other nominees include Susan Choi for Flashlight, Ben Markovitz for The Rest of Our Lives, and Katie. Kitamura for audition. The judges this year include novelist Kylie Reed, actor and producer Sarah Jessica Parker, and author Roddy Doyle, who is the first Booker Prize winner to chair the panel.
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