NPR News: 08-29-2025 2AM EDT
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. FBI director Cash Patel is calling the deadly mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis an act of domestic terrorism motivated by hate-filled ideology. |
| 0:15.9 | But some extremism analysts say materials believe to be connected to the shooter paint another picture. |
| 0:21.8 | Details from NPR's Odette Youssef. |
| 0:24.0 | YouTube videos believed to be connected with the shooter show extensive writings and weaponry with inscriptions scrawled on them. |
| 0:31.0 | They reveal an obsession with other mass shooters. |
| 0:34.4 | Cody Zossach of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue says it aligns with a category of |
| 0:39.8 | mass shooters who seek notoriety through violence. We found no evidence that this individual was |
| 0:46.8 | driven by desire for political or social change, that they were influenced by any ideology. |
| 0:55.9 | Authorities in Minnesota said the shooter was not on law enforcement's radar. |
| 1:00.2 | Odette Youssef and PR News. |
| 1:02.4 | Deputy Health Secretary Jim O'Neill will be named interim CDC director to replace Susan |
| 1:07.6 | Minares who's suing to keep her job. |
| 1:10.4 | Dozens of CDC employees staged a walkout Thursday to support top scientists who resigned after |
| 1:16.0 | Minares was fired. |
| 1:18.1 | From member station, WABE, Christopher Alston has more. |
| 1:21.5 | USA, not RFA. |
| 1:23.6 | Members of the public joined current and former CDC employees to line the street outside the center's entrance. |
| 1:29.3 | One of the officials who resigned, former chief medical officer Deborah Howry, was met with cheers and applause from the crowd. |
| 1:36.3 | I just can't tell you what CDC means to all of us, the mission, the work, your commitment. |
| 1:41.3 | Thank you, and we're so honored to have done this for you. |
| 1:44.7 | Howie was joined by Daniel Jernigan and Dmitri Daskalakis, formerly directors of |
| 1:49.2 | centers overseeing immunizations and infectious diseases. The three say they were escorted |
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