NPR News: 04-26-2026 7PM EDT
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🗓️ 26 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. |
| 0:04.9 | The investigation into the shooting at the White House correspondent dinner in Washington, D.C. last night, continues. |
| 0:11.2 | NPR confirmed the suspect is Cole Allen, a 31-year-old teacher and engineer from California. |
| 0:16.9 | President Trump and his cabinet were not injured. |
| 0:19.3 | One Secret Service agent was shot in his bulletproof vest. And here's Lydia Kalitri has more. |
| 0:25.4 | Cole Allen graduated from Caltech in 2017 and worked as a part-time teacher at a tutoring service for high school students in Torrance, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. |
| 0:35.9 | The White House says Allen wanted to target administration officials. |
| 0:39.6 | A White House official not authorized to speak publicly says the Secret Service and Montgomery |
| 0:44.0 | County Police spoke with Alan's sister. She told them her brother had a tendency to make |
| 0:49.0 | radical statements and his rhetoric constantly referenced a plan to do, quote, something to fix the issues with today's world. |
| 0:57.1 | Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says investigators are still looking into a potential motive. |
| 1:02.3 | Allen will be arraigned in federal court on Monday. |
| 1:05.4 | Lydia Kuletri, NPR News, Washington. |
| 1:08.4 | Congress leaves town for their next recess in a week, but the partial government |
| 1:12.6 | shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security continues, meaning secret service agents haven't been |
| 1:17.7 | paid. And here's Eric McDaniel reports. As though the longest agency shutdown in history weren't |
| 1:22.7 | enough pressure, Saturday night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Association dinner has |
| 1:26.5 | refocused lawmakers' attention on the lack of DHS funding. |
| 1:29.4 | Here's Utah Senator Mike Lee Saturday night in a video on X. |
| 1:32.5 | The very same secret service that just saved President Trump's life, and thank Kevin above, that he's safe, has been defunded, along with the rest of the Department of Homeland Security for more than two months. |
| 1:42.6 | My Democrat colleagues in the Senate, it's time to end this. |
| 1:45.6 | Let's end the Homeland Security shutdown now, please. |
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