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This is NPR News Now. The latest headlines every hour. Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. New York City, Mayor Azamam Dani is calling for federal immigration officers to leave his city following a shooting that wounded a man in the Marble Hill neighborhood. New York City will not stand by while ICE agents shoot New Yorkers, and we will not back down from the demand that so many, including myself, have put forward time and again, this is an agency that must be abolished.

Speaking at a press conference Thursday evening, Mondani said a five-year-old child was with the man in his car at the time of the shooting but was unharmed. Mom Dani said he spent two hours on the phone with President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen, but that his efforts to free the man failed. Following treatment at a hospital where protesters clash with police, Mom Dani said the man was taken away by ICE agents in an unmarked vehicle. He's been identified as a 28-year-old from the Dominican Republic. Police say he's been arrested twice in the city.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegsses says the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hassan will be viewed by the public. NPR's Quill Lawrence reports U.S. has not had a public execution since 1936. Hegsts says members of the public will be able to watch a live stream of the execution by firing squad, which is scheduled for December. He said it in an interview with a right-wing news service, Real America's voice that was posted on social media by an account associated with the Pentagon. Hassan killed 13 fellow soldiers, including a pregnant woman, and wounded dozens more on Fort Hood in 2009. The last U.S. military execution was in 1945 of a soldier convicted of desertion.

The last public execution in the U.S. was a black man accused of raping and murdering a white woman in Kentucky hanged in 1936. Quill Lawrence NPR News. Minister proposing solutions to the school crisis that has rocked the country. His proposals came as high school students gathered in cities across the country for a second big day of rallies and what is now their weeks-long push for better conditions in schools. M.P.R.'s Eleanor Beardsley reports. Some 25,000 high schoolers rallied in Paris's Place de la Bastille. They were joined by college students and some parents, teachers, and union members. The rallies were smaller than Mondays and more violent. Police charged

to clear the plaza, there was tear gas and some 500 people were arrested. Hours later, French Education Minister Eduardo Giffrey spoke on television. He says there will be immediate help for 500 schools in real difficulty. In the next hours, we will

send 3,000 replacement teachers to these schools, he said, calling it the first part of a bigger plan, but the plan has not stopped the students from calling for another day of nationwide protests next Tuesday. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris. This is NPR News. An Army report blames a deadly mid-air collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a Black Hawk helicopter on systemic failures. The report

seen by NPR, but not publicly released, was completed in May. It says communication was a key factor that the helicopter crew did not receive critical information from air traffic control. 67 people were killed in the crash. Open AI has banned Russian in Iranian accounts that, among other things, used to chat GPT to document their influence operations. One of these operations appeared to be the most impactful campaign OpenAI has come across so far. In Paris Hōjing Nunn reports. In one case, Open AI says operatives from Russia managed to trick Peruvian schools into organizing activities about Ukraine featuring a controversial Polish figure.

Those events angered a Polish member of the European Parliament. The whole thing stoked tensions between Poland and Europe. Ukraine, which aligns with Kremlin's goals. In a different case, operatives from Iran made up fake authors to pitch articles to small media outlets around the world and publish almost 100 articles in this way. OpenAI says these internal reports show that for influence campaigns, tricking established outlets into spreading the message can be far more effective than simply creating fake accounts on social media. Hu Jinnan, NPR News. Hurricane ECIS is getting stronger. The National Hurricane Center,

as the storm's top sustained winds increased to 105 miles per hour Thursday, making it a Category 2 storm. ECIS has its site set on the northern Gulf Coast. I'm Jail Snyder. This is NBR News.