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Who was Charlie Kirk and why is the FBI offering a $100,000 reward for his killer?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Sang. The FBI is posting images of a person of interest and offering a one hundred thousand dollars reward for information leading to an arrest in Charlie Kirk's assassination. The influential conservative activist was fatally shot at a Utah Valley University event yesterday. The Turning Point USA co founder was thirty one years old. A source tells NPR that Air Force two will transport Kirk's family in his casket from Utah to Arizona. And Pierre's Daniel Kurtz Laban has more on that.
Vice President Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance are visiting Salt Lake City, Utah to pay respects to Kirk's family. A source who was not permitted to talk about the trip on the record also confirmed the plans for Kirk's casket to be flown home on Air Force two, an uncommon honor. Vance was originally slated to attend a september eleventh remembrance ceremony in New York City.
How are officials commemorating the 24th anniversary of 9/11 in New York City?
Charlie Kirk was the founder and head of Turning Point USA, a right wing group that organizes at high schools and on college campuses and is headquartered in Phoenix. He was credited with helping President Trump gain support among young voters in twenty twenty four. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House.
In lower Manhattan at ground zero, dignitaries and families of the fallen mark twenty four years since the nine eleven attacks. killed nearly three thousand people, to this day, the deadliest act of terror on US soil in the nation's history. And Pierce Quill Lawrence reports from New York.
A somber ceremony is held each year at the site where the Twin Towers collapsed after being struck by hijacked airliners that morning in 2001. Loved ones read out the names of the people who died. Jeremiah Joseph Orhern.
What is the impact of the Arizona judge’s temporary block on deporting Guatemalan and Honduran migrant children?
Joanne Marie
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The current and several past mayors of New York attended along with the governors of New York and New Jersey. This day also marks the beginning of a global war on terror, which has killed thousands of American troops and hundreds of thousands, most of them civilians, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Quill Lawrence NPR News.
A US district judge in Arizona is temporarily blocking the Trump administration from deporting migrant children from Guatemala and Honduras. Lawyers for dozens of minors say their clients fear going home and have a right to due process. The Brazilian Supreme Court has convicted former president Jair Bolsonaro of all charges related to a plot to overthrow his successor, Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva. The ruling is unprecedented in Brazil. After Bolsonado lost to Lula, his supporters stormed government buildings on january eighth, twenty twenty three.
Why is inflation rising again and how might it affect the Federal Reserve’s interest‑rate decision?
The riots evoke comparisons to the january sixth attack on the US Capitol two years earlier after President Trump, a Bolsonar ally, lost his reelection bid and and falsely claim that the vote was stolen. US stocks have ended the day higher. At last check the Dow was up more than six hundred points. This is NPR News. Inflation rose last month, and Pierre Scott Horsley reports on what that means for shoppers and for inflation watchdogs at the Federal Reserve.
Consumers paid higher prices last month for groceries, gasoline, and other goods. The overall cost of living in August was up two point nine percent from a year ago. That's a bigger annual jump than the previous month, and stubborn inflation may complicate the Federal Reserve's calculation as it considers cutting interest rates.
How did Sabrina Carpenter dominate this week’s Billboard charts with her new album and singles?
The central bank is still widely expected to lower its benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point when policymakers meet next week. The Fed's in a tight spot though, as it faces both rising prices and a sagging job market. Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington.
Sabrina Carpenter makes quite an impression on this week's Billboard charts and Pierre Steven Thompson with details.
This week the Billboard albums chart features just one debut in the top ten Man's Best Friend by Sabrina Carpenter.
The album Man's Best Friend debuts at number one, but Carpenter's success this week runs deeper than that. She also lands two songs in the top five, Man Child, which topped the chart earlier this summer, and her new single, Tears.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who was Charlie Kirk and why is the FBI offering a $100,000 reward for his killer?
0:01–0:54
2
How are officials commemorating the 24th anniversary of 9/11 in New York City?
0:54–1:42
3
What is the impact of the Arizona judge’s temporary block on deporting Guatemalan and Honduran migrant children?
1:42–2:37
4
Why is inflation rising again and how might it affect the Federal Reserve’s interest‑rate decision?
2:37–3:28
5
How did Sabrina Carpenter dominate this week’s Billboard charts with her new album and singles?
3:28–4:39