NPR News: 11-29-2025 10AM EST
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. Investigators are still searching for a motive for an Afghan refugee shooting of two National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C. this week. One of the soldiers has died.
What happened in the Afghan refugee shooting incident?
Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom was memorialized in her hometown yesterday. She was 20 years old. Fellow West Virginia National Guardsman Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe remains in critical condition. Retired General James Hoyer is a former adjutant general of the West Virginia National Guard. He told NPR's weekend edition that the youth of these soldiers makes the case all the more tragic.
These were just young kids, 18 years old, when they made the decision to step up and be part of less than 1% of the population of this nation that serves in a military uniform.
The Trump administration now has halted all asylum decisions and paused issuing visas for people traveling on Afghan passports. Holiday flights this weekend are facing some disruptions after Airbus ordered immediate software fixes for a number of its aircraft, a move that has forced airlines to ground planes. Rebecca Rossman has more.
About 6,000 Airbus A320 jets worldwide, including several hundred in the U.S., are affected by the required software update. The order stems from an investigation into a JetBlue flight last month that suddenly lost cabin pressure while traveling from Cancun to Newark. An analysis found that intense solar radiation may have corrupted computer code critical to the aircraft's flight control systems. In response, the Federal Aviation Administration is directing airlines to install the software fix immediately. American Airlines says around 200 of its aircraft are impacted. Delta and United report only a small number of affected jets. For NPR News, I'm Rebecca Rossman in Paris.
A collection of anecdotal reports from the Federal Reserve points to a modest slowdown in consumer spending. NPR's Scott Horsley has details.
The latest Beige Book from the Federal Reserve shows most consumers are being extra careful about discretionary spending, although wealthy shoppers are buying just as freely as ever. The report's compiled by the 12 regional Fed banks around the country. About half those banks report a slowdown in hiring. Businesses say it's easier to find workers than it used to be, although some still struggle with the drop in the number of foreign-born workers. Many factories and retailers report higher costs associated with tariffs. Some of that cost is being passed on to customers, while in other cases it's eating into businesses' profit margins. Fed policymakers will study the Beige Book as they try to decide whether to cut interest rates again when they meet in a couple of weeks.
Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
President Trump says he plans to cancel all executive orders President Biden signed with an auto pen. Legal experts say that auto pen signatures have been used multiple times and recognized as valid. This is NPR News in Washington. An Israeli raid on a village in southern Syria has left at least 13 people dead. Syria's foreign ministry says women and children are among the dead. Israel says its troops were rounding up suspects from a militant group when they came under attack and subsequently returned fire. Pope Leo XIV has visited Istanbul's iconic Blue Mosque as part of this first trip of his papacy to Turkey and then Lebanon. NPR's Ruth Sherlock is traveling with this first American pope. She reports that Pope Leo showed respect at the mosque and chose not to pray there.
This was the first time Pope Leo has visited a Muslim place of worship since he became the leader of the Catholic Church. He removed his shoes as is customary for entering the vast religious space. He walked in white socks across the red carpeted floor as he was given a tour by the mosque's Imam and the Mufti of Istanbul. The Imam told reporters he invited Leo to pray But the Pope declined. The Vatican said in a statement afterwards that, quote, the Pope experienced his visit to the mosque in silence, in a spirit of contemplation and listening, with deep respect for the place and the faith of those who gather there in prayer.
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