NPR News: 04-26-2026 9PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herfst. 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 taken from the ballroom after the Secret Service subdued the suspect, and here's Ryan Lucas has more. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told CBS News his face to 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, 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. And Allen has a court date tomorrow. Meanwhile, Steve Futterman has more on what's known about Cole Allen. He had recently been working for a company that provides tutoring and helps students prepare for college entry exams. One of his tutoring students was this 17-year-old 11th grader Jason, who were only using his first name because he's a minor. Allen helped him prepare for his physics courses. I spoke with him last night. He said Allen's politics and ideology never came up. No, never. We would stay on topic the whole time, never said anything about Trump or anything like that. So he kept it, I guess he kept most of his opinions to himself. Was he a good teacher? Did he help you? Yeah. He was very helpful. Steve Futterman reporting. Former detainees at the Dilly Immigration Processing Center in South Texas say the tap water there is not fit for consumption.

2:03Texas Public Radio's Corey Cook reports they're forced to buy bottled water at inflated prices. Amanda Aguilar is a staff attorney at American Gateways in San Antonio. She represents multiple families, detained at Dilly and said her clients claimed 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. Federal contractor Core Civic operates Dilly. Their website states that the facility gets the same clean drinking water supplied to the town. I'm Corey Cook and San Antonio. U.S. futures contracts are trading lower at this hour. Dow futures are down 133 points. Nasdaq futures are unchanged. You're listening to NPR News. In southwestern Georgia, fire officials say one of two large wildfires burning in the

3:06state continues to grow and has now burned more than 31 square miles. Bradley County manager Joey Kason says on Facebook that the highway 82 fire doubled in size from last night and winds today won't help. He says evacuation notices could be issued. A second fire about 70 miles south of the highway 82 fire near the Florida state line burned more than 46 square miles. The fires are fed by high winds, hot dry conditions and a continuing drought. And smoke from the fires is also causing air quality concerns for several parts of the state. Thousands of birds will be migrating across the U.S. tonight. That's why conservation groups are asking people to turn off or dim their lights. If here's Lorenzo or has more. It's the annual spring migration. Almost 250 million birds are traveling across the U.S. right now. Most birds migrate at night and summer on journeys that take them from South America all the way to the Arctic.

4:07Artificial lights, like from buildings, can interfere with their navigation. The conservation groups are asking residents to turn out or dim non-essential lights overnight for the next few weeks. The biggest hot spots are in the south, midwest and mid-Atlantic states as well as the west coast. Lorenzo and PR News. Sebastian Saway is the first person to break the two-hour marathon barrier at the London Marathon today. He won the race in one hour 59 minutes and 30 seconds. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington. Want to 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.