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Live from NPR News in Washington DC, I'm Dale Wilman. Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend a public memorial service for Charlie Kirk later today. It's being held in Glendale, Arizona, just outside of Phoenix. Among those expected to attend are President Trump and Vice President Vance. Steve Futterman reports.
The event is taking place at State Farm Stadium, normally the home of the NFL's Arizona Cardinals. It can hold more than seventy thousand people. Laura Campbell made the trip from El Paso.
It was about a seven hour drive.
She has been moved by Charlie Kirk's death.
I want to be in this place in this stadium where I know there's gonna be a whole lot of love.
Morty Burkhardt came from Helena, Montana. He has been watching Kirk videos since the shooting.
With President Trump taking part, security will be very tight. Those planning to attend have been told there could be long waits. For MPR News, I'm Steve Fetterman in Glendale, Arizona.
Police in Nashua, New Hampshire have a potential suspect in custody following a shooting Saturday at a country club. There,
an adult male entered the uh the golf course area and uh there was a shooting. An adult male died, additional people were injured. And it's currently being investigated at this point.
Peter Hinckley is a prosecutor with the New Hampshire Attorney General's office. He says it's too early to have a motive for the shooting, but he says there's no further threat to people living in the area. President Trump is adding a $100,000 fee to H one B visas, which are especially popular among big tech companies. As MPR's Maria Aspen reports, more than half a million people in the US are here on those visas.
The H one B visa program is intended for highly skilled workers, such as software engineers. Congress allows 85,000 of them to be issued every year through a lottery, and the competition is fierce. Amazon, Microsoft, and other big tech companies hire thousands of such workers every year, and until now it didn't cost them much. But President Trump and critics across the political spectrum say that companies abuse the program to exploit workers. Trump said in his executive order that companies use H one B visas to replace American workers with lower paid immigrants, and a study by the Economic Policy Institute found that most H one B employers do pay migrant workers less than market rate salaries. Maria Aspen, NPR News, New York.
Israeli strikes in Gaza City overnight have killed at least fourteen people. That's according to Gaza health officials. Israel has been ramped up uh has been ramping up its attacks on the city and have been urging Palestinians to leave. Some Western countries, meanwhile, are now considering recognizing Palestinian statehood at the upcoming meeting of the UN General Assembly. You're listening to NPR News. California is now banning the use of facial coverings for local and federal law enforcement officers while they conduct official business. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law on Saturday as a direct response to recent immigration raids in Los Angeles, where federal agents covered their faces while making arrests.
Newsome also signed measures that limit immigration agents from entering schools and healthcare facilities without a warrant. The White House says the proposed TikTok deal with China will make the video sharing social media app majority owned in the US, MPR's Ava Pukach reports.
Speaking with Fox News, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says there will be a seven-person board controlling the app's US operations with six seats held by Americans under the proposed deal. The data and privacy will be led by one of America's greatest tech companies, Oracle, and the algorithm will also be controlled by America as well. Levitt says the deal should be signed quote in the coming days. And Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by phone Friday about the fate of the app. Trump has repeatedly extended the deadline for Beijing owner Bite Dance to divest TikTok's US operations as the administration works on a deal.
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