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Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump is vowing to crack down on legal migrants and review all Afghan immigrants admitted under the Biden administration after one of the West Virginia National Guard members, shot this week not far from the White House, died from her injuries. Sarah Beckstrom was 20 years old. The suspect is a 29-year-old Afghan national. NPR's Brian Mann has more.
Trump announced Beckstrom's death during a conference call with military leaders.
Her parents are with her. It's just happened. She was savagely attacked. She's dead.
A second National Guard soldier remains in critical condition. Federal authorities have identified the alleged gunman as an Afghan refugee. In a social media post, Trump called for a pause on migrants from what he described as third world countries and said many foreign nationals living in the U.S. legally should be deported. Federal officials say they've begun a reexamination of migrants' green cards, scrutinizing legal residents from Afghanistan and at least 18 other countries. Brian Mann, NPR News.
The death toll from a massive fire that tore through a public housing complex in Hong Kong has risen to at least 128. Cherise Pham reports bodies are still being recovered from the wreckage today, two days after the fire started.
Rescue efforts have now shifted to recovery operations. Many of the deceased haven't been fully identified and more than a dozen burned bodies remain in the buildings, authorities said at a press conference. The fire is one of the deadliest in the city's history. The apartment complex had been under renovation and was covered in bamboo scaffolding and netting. Authorities initially suspected that the netting was a problem, but they now say it met fire-resistant standards. Other construction material is believed to have spread the fire. Fire alarms also failed to operate properly, according to public broadcaster RTHK. For NPR News, I'm Charisse Pham in Hong Kong.
Stocks opened higher this morning after a technical glitch snarled futures trading overnight. And Pierre Scott Horsley reports the Dow rose about 140 points in early trading.
Futures trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange was halted for hours overnight due to problems with computer servers at a data center in Illinois. Trading resumed this morning. It'll be a short day for stock traders. The market closes at 1 p.m. Eastern time after being closed yesterday for Thanksgiving. Canada's prime minister has struck a deal with the provincial leader of Alberta that aims to build an oil pipeline to the country's west coast. The move is designed to make Canada less dependent on U.S. oil customers in response to tariffs imposed by President Trump. And UPS says its MD-11 cargo planes, grounded since a deadly crash in Kentucky earlier this month, will likely remain out of service throughout the peak holiday shipping season.
Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
Wall Street's trading higher at this hour. The Dow is up 150 points, the Nasdaq up 65 points, the S&P 500 up 15. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Fever is a common response to viral infection. Many researchers think it helps fight the virus, but precisely how it helps has been a mystery. And here's Jonathan Lambert reports on new research that suggests an answer.
There are two main ideas for how fevers fight infection. One is that the high temperature is itself the point and helps cook off the virus by messing with its ability to hijack our cells. The other is that high temperatures somehow help our immune system work better. New research in the journal Science suggests that it's the heat that counts, at least in mice. Lab mice just so happen to not get feverish when infected with the flu. So to study this question, researchers infected mice and turned up the heat. Mice housed at room temperature got sick after infection. But those housed in conditions simulating a fever fared much better, suggesting that the heat helped them fight the flu. Jonathan Lambert, NPR News.
A major winter storm tore through the northern plains, bringing snow to parts of the area and the Great Lakes, and it continues through tomorrow, with moderate to heavy accumulating snow and gusty winds forecast from the eastern plains to the western Great Lakes.
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