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What is the memorial service planned for Turning Point USA co‑founder Charlie Kirk?
Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Duahlisa Kowtal. The conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA announced that it will hold a memorial service for their co-founder Charlie Kirk next week at an Arizona stadium that can hold as many as sixty thousand people. President Trump and the Vice President are expected to attend as well as Kirk's widow, Erica.
If you thought That my husband's mission Was powerful before. You have no idea.
She spoke Friday after escorting her husband's body home. Reporter Steve Fetterman has more in her first remarks.
Erika Kirk spoke on a live stream for around fifteen minutes.
How is the multi‑billion‑dollar school security industry responding to U.S. school shootings?
She spoke from Phoenix from the same studio that Kirk often used for his podcasts. Now at times her voice cracked, she dabbed her eyes on several occasions. But her main message seemed to be that Charlie Kirk's movement will continue.
Steve Futterman reporting from Southwest Utah. Hundreds of school shootings have happened in the US in recent decades, and Peers Meg Anderson reports that's led to the growth of a multi billion dollar industry.
The school security industry is now worth as much as four billion dollars. That's according to the market research firm Omdia. At the National School Safety Conference this summer, vendors showcased panic buttons, bulletproof whiteboards, body armor, and more. Sarah McNeely is with Sam Medical, a company that sells trauma medical kits.
It's an unfortunate circumstance, but being prepared and having these devices in the schools is essential.
Why do researchers say current school safety products are reactive rather than preventive?
Gun violence prevention researchers say many products on the market are reactive. They don't prevent shootings from happening. They say that requires restricting access to guns and supporting mental health services for children. Meg Anderson, NPR News.
Colorado River researchers say water levels at the nation's two largest reservoirs are dropping fast and they're on track for dire consequences. The authors are calling on policymakers to move with urgency to protect Lake Powell and Lake Mead, as Alex Hager of Member Station KUNC reports.
Negotiators are locked in talks about the future of those reservoirs after twenty twenty six when the current rules for managing water there expire. But the authors of this report say a dry year could bring levels so low the reservoirs stop working before any new rules go into effect. Catherine Terra with the University of New Mexico is one of them.
The consequence of drawing down these reservoirs and, you know, not conserving as a basin is that people won't get water in in a way that I don't think we've seen before.
What are the looming water‑level crises at Lake Powell and Lake Mead and why urgent action is needed?
Terra says the seven states that use the Colorado River have to quickly agree on cutbacks to fix this. That work will be hard, but Terra says it is possible with collaboration. For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager in Fort Collins, Colorado.
And you are listening to NPR News from New York City. She Yin Jong continues to make history in the classical music world. This weekend the fifty-two-year-old begins her tenure as music director of Seattle Symphony, becoming the first woman and person of color to lead the orchestra in its 122 year history. Colleagues describe her as an electric artistic leader. She told the Seattle Times, I don't try to take charge and if I do music well, then the music will win them over for me. A former college president who led a lawsuit that changed historically black colleges and universities has died. Earl Richardson was president of Morgan State University in Baltimore and put a spotlight on funding disparities for HBCUs in Pierre's Joseph Shapiro reports.
Who is She Yin Jong and why is her appointment as Seattle Symphony music director historic?
During the time he led the school in Baltimore from nineteen ninety four to two thousand ten, student enrollment doubled and the campus expanded. Richardson is known for the lawsuit he helped lead that gets compared to Brown versus the Board of Education. The lawsuit in Maryland argued that the state had failed to provide adequate funding to the state's HBCUs and had instead started and boosted competing programs at nearby majority white schools. The lawsuit took 15 years. In 2021, Maryland agreed to leave.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the memorial service planned for Turning Point USA co‑founder Charlie Kirk?
0:01–0:43
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How is the multi‑billion‑dollar school security industry responding to U.S. school shootings?
0:43–1:37
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Why do researchers say current school safety products are reactive rather than preventive?
1:37–2:40
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What are the looming water‑level crises at Lake Powell and Lake Mead and why urgent action is needed?
2:40–3:54
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Who is She Yin Jong and why is her appointment as Seattle Symphony music director historic?
3:54–4:39