NPR News: 04-26-2026 3PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nur Rahm. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says, investigators are moving quickly to gather evidence about the suspected gunman who tried to storm the White House correspondence dinner last night. President Trump was rushed from the ballroom after secret service agents subdued the suspect. NPR's Ryan Lucas reports. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told CBS News his face the nation that the suspect in custody is not cooperating with investigators. Blanche did not name the individual, but two sources familiar with the matter, tell NPR the suspect is 31-year-old Cole Allen from Corinth's, California. Blanche says investigators are combing through evidence they've gathered so far, including from the suspect's electronic devices. Based on preliminary information, Blanche says the suspect is believed to have traveled by train from Los Angeles to Chicago and then onto Washington, D.C., where he had a room at the Hilton Hotel, where the correspondence dinner was taking place. Investigators believe the suspect was targeting Trump administration officials, but Blanche

1:02says they are still looking into a potential motive. Ryan Lucas and P.R. News, Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is directing the Israeli military to, quote, vigorously, attack Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. The order comes just days after a temporary ceasefire was extended for three weeks. NPR's Kat Lonsdorf reports both sides have been claiming attacks in recent days. The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders for a part of southern Lebanon beyond the area currently occupied by Israeli troops, warning of upcoming strikes. Israeli strikes in the south have killed more than 20 people since the ceasefire went into effect according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health. Hezbollah says it attacked Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into northern Israel in response to what it says are Israeli violations of the ceasefire. Many in Lebanon are closely watching the status of the U.S. Iran peace talks, which were largely canceled yesterday, worried that if those talks fall apart, the war here will reignite again in full.

2:04Kat Lonsdorf and P.R. News, Beirut. Former detainees at the Dilly Immigration Processing Center in South Texas say the tapwater there is not fit for consumption. Texas Public Radio's Cory Cook has more. Amanda Aguilar is a staff attorney at American Gateways in San Antonio. She represents multiple families detained at Dilly and said her clients claim the water there is foul. The water that they have smells like bleach and it's not really drinkable. Aguilar said her clients were forced to pay $3 for a bottle of water or less than $40 for a case. ICE Director Todd Lyons stated in a recent news release that families in Dilly receive essential daily living needs. Several contractor Corsific operates Dilly. Their website states that the facility gets the same clean drinking water supplied to the town. I'm Cory Cook and San Antonio. This is NPR News in Washington. A car bomb exploded outside a police station in Belfast last night.

3:05Police say a delivery vehicle was hijacked and its driver forced to drive to the station carrying the bomb. There were no injuries. A 1998 peace agreement had ended decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, but there are occasional attacks by nationalist militants opposed to Britain's rule. History has been made and made again at this year's London Marathon. Vicki Barker reports. In any other year, Yomif Kajelko would have been guaranteed instant stardom. He ran the London course in one hour, 59 minutes, and 41 seconds, breaking the fabled two-hour barrier in this, his marathon debut. But the Ethiopian was 11 seconds behind the winner Kenya's Sebastien Saue, who beat the previous world record by 65 seconds. Ethiopian Tigast Asefa broke her own women's only world record, winning her second consecutive London marathon in two hours, 15 minutes, and 41 seconds. A record 59,000 runners were expected to complete this year's race, and organizers hope next

4:09year's event will run over two days, allowing 100,000 runners to take part. For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London. In women's basketball, Indiana fever star Caitlin Clark was back in the court last night, playing in her first WNBA game in nine months due to injuries. She scored the first basket of the game, and finished with seven points, four assists, three rebounds. It was a preseason game, but Clark said it felt good. I'm Nora Rom, NPR News in Washington. Wanna hear this podcast without sponsor breaks? Amazon Prime members can listen to NPR News now, sponsor free through Amazon Music. Or you can also support NPR's vital journalism and get NPR Plus at plus dot NPR dot org. That's plus dot NPR dot org.