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NPR News: 07-29-2025 5PM EDT

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

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0:00.0

This summer on Planet Money Summer School, we're learning about political economy.

0:04.2

We're getting into the nitty-gritty of what government does with things like trade, taxes, immigration, and health care.

0:10.4

So politics and economics, which are taught separately, they shouldn't be separated at all.

0:14.2

I think you have to understand one to really appreciate the other.

0:16.9

So what is the right amount of government in our lives?

0:19.6

Tune into Planet Money Summer School from NPR.

0:22.0

Wherever you get, their podcasts.

0:25.1

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.

0:29.6

New information is emerging about the shooter who killed four people in Manhattan last night

0:34.9

before turning the gun on himself.

0:39.3

NPR, Sarah Ventry reports the victims include an off-duty police officer and an executive at a major investment firm.

0:45.1

The attacker has been identified as 27-year-old Shane Tamora of Las Vegas, once a star high school

0:50.6

football player. New York City Mayor Eric Adams told MSNBC, officers found a note with

0:56.2

Tumor's body in which he mentioned CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy. It's a degenerative

1:03.0

brain disorder that has been associated with aggression and suicidality and commonly affects

1:08.2

football players. We have reason to believe that he was focused on the NFL agency that was located in the building.

1:19.0

Adams also said it appears the shooter took the wrong elevator, winding up at an asset management firm instead.

1:25.2

CTE can only be diagnosed through an autopsy. Sarah Ventry, NPR News,

1:30.2

New York. Convicted sex trafficker Galen Maxwell is asking a congressional committee to grant her

1:35.9

immunity in exchange for testimony under a subpoena. NPR's Claudia Grasales reports Maxwell is also

1:42.5

seeking to delay her appearance, hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will take up her case.

1:47.7

The House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena for Gila and Maxwell's testimony next month, but her attorneys say that's too soon.

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