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NPR News: 12-19-2025 7PM EST

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0:00.0

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0:18.4

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.

0:22.5

Police say the gunmen behind Saturday's deadly campus shooting at Brown University

0:26.9

also murdered an MIT professor two days later.

0:30.5

The shooter was a 48-year-old former graduate student at Brown.

0:34.3

Ocean State Media's David Wright says police were able to identify the suspect after a

0:39.1

witness came forward. He described having seen a middle-aged man in a mask loitering in the

0:45.2

bathroom of Barrison Holly, that's the Brown Engineering Building. This was hours before the

0:50.3

shooting took place in that same building. And something didn't sit right with him. And the man

0:54.9

ran off. And John followed him. He told police that it was like cat and mouse as he stalked him

1:01.1

through the streets near the engineering building. At one point, the suspect approached a gray

1:06.1

Nissan. And a car of the same make and model had also been spotted in Brookline, Mass, where that MIT professor was murdered Tuesday.

1:14.0

David Wright with Ocean State Media reporting.

1:16.5

The Department of Defense is spending $2.6 billion meant for housing assistance on a bonus to troops.

1:23.5

Steve Walsh of member station WHRO in Norfolk has the story.

1:27.1

The White House is calling it the Warrior Dividend.

1:30.2

1.28 million active duty troops and 174,000 members of the reserves are in the process of

1:37.2

receiving a one-time payment of $1,776.

1:42.0

President Trump says that the money is in honor of the country's 250th anniversary next year.

1:48.1

The funds are actually from $2.9 billion set aside by Congress to supplement the money given troops to pay their rent or mortgage.

1:55.5

According to a Defense Department official who was not authorized to speak publicly, The Defense Department says the $1,776

2:04.1

will arrive over the next few days. For NPR News, I'm Steve Walsh. President Trump has signed into law

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