NPR News: 04-28-2026 11PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. A grand jury in North Carolina has indicted former FBI director James Comey for allegedly making a threat against President Trump. In response, Comey said he's innocent, and this is not how the Department of Justice is supposed to be. In Pierce Carrey Johnson reports that Trump has been pushing the DOJ to go after Comey for years. The two-count indictment in North Carolina marks the second time the Trump Justice Department has tried to pursue a criminal case against Jim Comey. A judge in Virginia threw out the first case because the prosecutor there was not legally appointed. Now, DOJ is accusing Comey a long-time critic of the president of threatening the 47th president, referring to an incident last year when Comey posted a photo of the numbers 86-47 in seashells. Comey later deleted the post and said he didn't know the slang term 86 could be considered a threat. Several legal experts say Comey's photo seems to fall in the bounds of political speech

1:02protected by the First Amendment. Carrey Johnson in PR News, Washington. King Charles was on Capitol Hill Tuesday delivering a speech to Congress in which he said the U.S. and Britain built one of the most consequential alliances in human history and urged that calls to become more inward-looking be ignored. I pray with all my heart that our alliance will continue to defend our shared values with our partners in Europe and the Commonwealth and across the world. And King Charles has speech to Congress came amid tensions between President Trump and British Prime Minister Kier Starmer over the war in Iran. He urged on yielding resolve and supporting Ukraine against Russia and praise the NATO alliance. President Trump hosted the king and Queen Camilla tonight for a state dinner. Strong storms have been moving through North Texas, local media reporting multiple injuries and damaged homes and businesses and mineral wells following a tornado warning in the region.

2:07Investigators still looking into what may have motivated a Southern California man charge with attempting to assassinate President Trump over the weekend. 31-year-old Cole Allen was a high school educator in Paris, Odette Yusuf reports. Allen's family members have told reporters that he was a radical leftist. NPR has not independently confirmed these reports. But Jared Holt, an online extremism analyst with open measures, says writings and social media accounts believed to be associated with Allen paint a different picture. They're really not that radical. Oftentimes it's quite centrist, pretty moderate, left wing, if anything. Holt says that unlike some of the prior assassination attempts against Trump, the writings do not indicate that Allen was immersed in extreme or conspiracist information systems online. Odette Yusuf and NPR news. Yeah, and you're listening to NPR news. Well, Disney's Josh Demaro is facing his first crisis as the company's new chief executive, the Federal Communications Commission under Chairman Brendan Carr, has ordered in early

3:11license review of multiple ABC television stations owned by Disney. The order Tuesday came after a joke about Melania Trump by late night host Jimmy Kimmel. It drew calls from the White House for ABC to fire Kimmel. Kimmel survived calls last year that he be fired. Disney animation released several songs from some of its most popular recent movies in American Sign Language this week to mark National Death History Month. NPR's Chloe Welman reports a reanimated scenes are receiving mixed reviews from the deaf community. Disney has given three songs and ASL spin so far. We don't talk about Bruno from Encanto, Frozen 2's The Next Right Thing, and beyond from Oana too. The release is a part of Disney animation's songs in sign language initiative, created in collaboration with Deaf West Theatre in Los Angeles to incorporate ASL gestures into the musical scenes. And they've sparked a debate among members of the deaf community on social media.

4:14In a post on Instagram, lifelong signer Rogan Shannon says he applauded Disney for the effort it put into the challenging work of animating sign language. But he says he had trouble understanding the gestures, because they were not represented clearly enough on screen. Chloe Welman, NPR News. Every day NPR reports stories that keep you informed without fear or favor. That's the promise of a free press in a democracy. It's in the First Amendment. I'm Tom Bowman and I cover the Pentagon for NPR. Stand up for independent news coverage today by donating early for public media giving days, coming up on May 1st and 2nd. We've now with donate.npr.org.