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NPR News: 09-17-2025 7PM EDT

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

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0:00.0

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.

0:04.4

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro says it's a tragic and devastating day.

0:08.6

A total of five police officers were shot today, three of them fatally,

0:13.0

as they followed up on an investigation that authorities say was domestic-related.

0:17.6

Grieve for the loss of life, for three precious souls who served this county,

0:25.6

served this Commonwealth, and served this country. We continue to pray for the full recovery of those

0:34.3

who are dealing with their wounds. The shooting happened in south central

0:37.8

Pennsylvania in York County, not far from the Maryland line. Officials say the two wounded officers

0:43.5

are listed in critical but stable condition and that the shooter was killed by police. Earlier

0:49.3

today in Pittsburgh, authorities took a suspect into custody after a driver rammed a car into security gates at the city's FBI building.

0:57.1

Former CDC director Susan Menares was on Capitol Hill today telling members of a Senate panel her side of events that led to her firing.

1:04.9

She said she was ousted because she refused to go along with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s demands on vaccines and other

1:11.8

issues. MPR. Selina Simmons-Duffin kept tabs on the hearing. She reached out to this Senate committee

1:17.3

expressing concerns about what she was being asked to do, and Kennedy found out. He told me,

1:22.9

he could not trust me. And I told him if he could not trust me, he could fire me. HHS spokesperson

1:29.1

Andrew Nixon sent me a statement. He denied that changes to the childhood vaccine schedule are

1:34.3

already decided. He said, quote, Susan Menares was tasked with restoring the CDC to its core

1:40.1

mission after decades of bureaucratic inertia, politicized science, and mission creep eroded

1:45.5

its purpose and squandered public trust, and she refused to do it.

1:49.9

The Vaccine Advisory Committee that Kennedy revamped is to open a two-day meeting in Atlanta

1:54.8

tomorrow to vote on new guidelines. Leading artificial intelligence chat pot, chat GPT,

2:00.4

says it's creating a version for users who are under 18.

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