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NPR News: 12-05-2024 5PM EST

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

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NPR News: 12-05-2024 5PM EST

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0:00.0

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear.

0:05.4

More than a day after the brazen killing of a health care executive in New York, the shooter remains at large.

0:12.4

NPR's Quill Lawrence reports police have released a photo of a person of interest.

0:16.1

Police have released a security camera photo of a man wearing a hooded coat with his mask down

0:20.8

and have offered a

0:21.7

$10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. They're treating the murder as a targeted

0:26.6

killing, but they've yet to announce a motive in the death of 50-year-old Brian Thompson who ran the

0:31.5

country's largest health insurer, United Healthcare. Police say the killer waited for Thompson for a few

0:37.1

minutes outside a midtown

0:38.2

hotel before shooting him repeatedly in the back. The shooter paused when his gun jam,

0:43.4

cleared the jam, and then continued firing. Police confirmed to member station WNYC that

0:48.6

bullet casings recovered at the scene were inscribed with words like deny, depose, and defend. Quill Lawrence, NPR News, New York.

0:56.8

Alon Mosque of Avaek-Ramu Swamy visited with lawmakers on Capitol Hill today to start work of the

1:02.3

new Department of Government Efficiency. NPR's Deidre Walsh reports there is bipartisan support to trim

1:08.3

spending. President-elect Trump tapped the billionaire entrepreneur and a former rival to form an

1:13.4

advisory panel, acronym Doge.

1:16.2

Headed into a meeting with Republican senators, Musk was asked about scaling back credits

1:21.0

for electric vehicles.

1:22.5

He suggested an even broader approach.

1:24.8

I think we should get rid of all credits.

1:26.2

Musk's goal is to slash $2 trillion in federal spending and eliminate some agencies entirely.

1:32.4

But more than 60% of the federal budget goes to mandatory spending on things like Social

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