Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.

Two National Guard members from West Virginia are in critical condition this afternoon

after being shot several blocks from the White House.

They were part of a contingent deployed to Washington, D.C. by President Trump this summer.

A suspect is in custody and was also shot, FBI director, Cash Patel.

This will be treated at the federal level as an assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

The FBI will lead out on that mission with our interagency partners to include the Department

of Homeland Security, Secret Service, ATF, DEA, and we're thankful for the mayor's assistance

in this matter.

D.C. police say they believe the shooter targeted the guard

members. The White House was briefly placed in lockdown after the shooting occurred. President Trump has

updated his original 28-point plan to end the war in Ukraine, as NPR's Franco Ordonez reports. Trump

says there are now only a few remaining points of disagreements. President Trump says he's

dispatching his special envoy Steve Whitkokoff, to Moscow to meet with

President Putin, while sending Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to meet with the Ukrainians to work out

the final details.

It's just the latest iteration of yo-yoing proposal that Trump has presented as he tries to

cement his peacemaking legacy.

Evo Dahlder, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, says all Trump wants is a deal.

He doesn't care what the terms of the deal are.

He just wants it to end and to be seen as the person who ended it.

But Daldor says the problem is that while the U.S. agreed to plans with both Russia and Ukraine,

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