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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. Police are being deployed to synagogues across the UK after an attack on one in the city of Manchester in northern England. NPR's Lauren Frayer reports at least two people are dead, several others were injured in a car ramming and stabbing before the suspect was killed by police.
Manchester police say the attacker drove his car into a crowd outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue and stabbed one person before being shot by police. Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham notes the attack took place on Yom Kippur, one of the holiest days in the Jewish calendar.
Obviously what we would all want to recognise is how people in our Jewish community will be feeling today.
Burnham told the BBC the immediate danger is over, though. Prime Minister Keir Starmer posted on social media that he's appalled and that the timing of the attack on Yom Kippur makes it, quote, all the more horrific. He cut short a visit to Denmark and rushed home to chair an emergency meeting in response. Lauren Fryer, NPR News, London.
It's day two of the federal government shutdown, and Piers Maher Eliasson says, amid it, the White House is threatening to fire thousands of federal workers.
The president has said that a lot of good can come from shutdowns. He says he may use this shutdown, which he blames on Democrats, as an excuse to take, quote, irreversible actions, such as cutting programs Democrats like and trimming the budget to a level he couldn't do any other way. In past shutdowns, government workers have been furloughed, but then return to work after the government reopens. This time, the White House is talking about permanent layoffs. Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt says no final decision about permanent layoffs has been made, but that, quote, we have to put a plan in place. Mara Liason, NPR News, the White House.
What happened in the Manchester synagogue attack and who reported it?
And the shutdown means the country won't get a new monthly jobs report and other key statistics this week. But as NPR's Hansi Lo Wang reports, federal employees continue to work on a key step in preparing for the next national headcount.
The Census Bureau has stopped collecting, processing, and releasing new data on the U.S. economy and disaster recovery. But the shutdown has not stopped work for next year's major field test for the 2030 Census. What's called the 2026 Census Test is set to take place in parts of Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. The Bureau says it's a, quote, mission-critical priority that is supposed to help develop better ways of getting a count of every person living in each state in 2030. Those numbers will be used to determine each state's share of congressional seats, electoral college votes, and federal funding in the next decade. But the Commerce Department Inspector General's Office has raised concerns that the bureau may not recruit enough workers for next year's census test.
Hansi Luang, NPR News.
U.S. futures contracts are trading in mixed territory at this hour. Dow futures are down a fraction. Nasdaq futures are up about a half percent. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Hundreds of celebrities have relaunched a committee to defend free speech that was first formed during the post-World War II Red Scare. As NPR's Anastasia Siloukas reports, the group is spearheaded by actor and activist Jane Fonda, whose father, Henry Fonda, stood against the Hollywood blacklists of the McCarthy era.
Pedro Pascal, Mark Ruffalo, Billie Eilish and Spike Lee are among the nearly 600 entertainers to join the newly reformed Committee for the First Amendment. The group says the federal government is engaged in a, quote, coordinated campaign to silence critics in the government, the media, the judiciary, academia and the entertainment industry.
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