Minneapolis Shooting Latest, New Acting CDC Director, North Korean Leader to Beijing

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🗓️ 29 August 2025

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The father of the eight-year-old boy who has killed in the shooting at Annunciation Church and School in Minneapolis has spoken publicly about his son. A top advisor to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been selected to serve as acting Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And, the leaders of North Korea, China and Russia will gather together for the first time at a Chinese military parade in Beijing next week.

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0:00.0	The father of a boy who was killed in the Minneapolis shooting has spoken publicly for the first time.
0:07.2	Please remember Fletcher, for the person he was and not the act that ended his life.
0:12.0	We're learning more about both children whose lives were taken.
0:15.1	I'm Michelle Martin. That's Lela Faddle, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:20.9	Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has appointed an acting director to run the CDC
0:25.4	following the purge and resignations of a number of top officials.
0:29.1	You can be a great administrator, but you do need to at least have a knowledge of how you'd handle an outbreak or an emerging pathogen.
0:36.3	How one expert who resigned from the CDC this week views the appointment.
0:39.9	And the leaders of North Korea, Russia, and China will gather for the first time in Beijing
0:44.9	next week for a military parade to mark the end of World War II.
0:49.6	Stay with us. We'll give you the news you need to start your day.
1:05.6	On this week's Wild Card podcast, author Ocean Vong says we need to reframe how we think about trauma.
1:11.7	The trauma comes on one side of a coin that also has strength on it.
1:16.7	Find that wild card conversation on the NPR app, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcast.
1:28.0	On Code Switch, learning to swim often means overcoming fears older than we are.
1:31.2	Her fears are in my genes.
1:35.0	And when I'm in the water, I really believe it because my mom is deathly afraid of the water.
1:40.7	How having swimming skills today is wrapped up in who was allowed to swim generations ago.
1:44.2	Check it out on Code Switch from NPR wherever you get your podcast.
1:53.2	I'm Jesse Thorne. What does it take to write a hit album? Good lyrics, catchy melody, sure.
1:58.7	But for Hymm, it starts with the drums. An album doesn't really start for us until we get the drum sound correct. Follow this one weird trick to learn how to make a Hymn album.
2:03.8	It's on Bolzai for Maximumfund.org and NPR.
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