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Who was Charlie Kirk and why is his assassination shaking the conservative movement?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. At this hour in Utah, officials are releasing new video in connection with the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk at a university in Utah on Wednesday. His body was returned to Phoenix where he lived today above Air Force Two. Kirk's murder is leading to an outpouring of grief online, NPR's Jeff Bronfield reports.
Throughout the conservative movement, commentators and influencers are mourning Kirk's death, like conservative podcaster Benny Johnson. Charlie Kirk is an American martyr. He is a Christian martyr. He died for his faith and his country. Many also angrily blame Democrats and the political left for his death, even as the shooter's identity and motive remain unknown. Nicole Hemer is a historian at Vanderbilt University. She says more may be to come following Kirk's assassination.
I think it expands people's capacity for imagining violent revenge.
American politics has entered what she calls a violent season. Jeff Brumfield, NPR News.
Hundreds of people arrested at an immigration raid at a Hyundai factory in Georgia are en route from Atlanta to South Korea, from member station WABE in Atlanta, Emily Woo Pearson reports.
The flight left a day later than anticipated. South Korean officials say the U.S. offered to let the people arrested, mostly South Korean citizens, stay and finish work at the electric vehicle battery plant in Southeast Georgia. Only one South Korean stayed. They have family in the U.S. Last week, the Department of Homeland Security visited the facility with an arrest warrant for four people, but arrested 475. That's according to an attorney representing more than than a dozen of those arrested. DHS claimed the workers were here on the wrong visa or overstayed their visas, but the attorney disputes that. The president of South Korea has said the raid will cause Korean companies to hesitate before investing in the US.
What reactions are emerging online and among historians after Kirk’s murder?
For NPR News, I'm Emily Woo Pearson in Atlanta.
The Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry to gauge how artificial intelligence chatbots are affecting children. As NPR's John Ruich reports, this comes amid concern about the effects of the interactive and popular technology.
The FTC says it's ordering several companies to provide information about how they measure, test, and monitor potentially negative impacts of AI technology on children and teens. The companies include some of the biggest in the arena, like Facebook owner Meta, Google Parent Alphabet, and OpenAI, which operates ChatGPT. Chatbots have been in the spotlight after reports surfaced of young people who died by suicide following discussions with them. Last month the parents of a sixteen-year-old California boy sued OpenAI, claiming that Chat GPT had coached him on how to end his life. The FTC is asking for a wide range of information, including how AI characters are developed, how the companies make money from user engagement, and how they deal with personal information obtained from users through chats.
John Ruich, NPR News.
And you're listening to NPR. The Kennedy Center in Washington DC has fired another high profile administrative leader in its ongoing shakeup. NPR's Anastasia T Old Keys has more.
Kevin Struthers had been an arts administrator at the Kennedy Center for 30 years. He ran the center's jazz programming and was in charge of other special concerts. He confirmed to NPR that he has been terminated. Struthers is the latest in a long line of staff dismissals and resignations at the famed DC Arts Institution since President Trump became its chair in February and appointed Richard Grinnell its new president. President. Previously, the Kennedy Center had been celebrated for inviting a vibrant roster of established and emerging jazz artists. The only mainstage jazz performance still on the Kennedy Center schedule is an October performance by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, a group which began recording in 1939.
Anastasiat Silkis and Pierre News, New York.
The United Kingdom's Foreign Office has fired its ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, over his alleged ties to convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein.
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