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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. A gunman opened fire at the White House Correspondence dinner Saturday night, a Secret Service officer was shot. Jenny Abamu from NPR member station, WAMU, was there. Local law enforcement says a man charged a security checkpoint at the hotel host in the dinner and exchanged gunfire with officers. The suspect was taken into custody. He was not hit by gunfire. Investigators say he appears to have been a guest at the hotel. A Secret Service, uniform division officer was struck in his vest. He was transported to the hospital and officials say he appears to be in good spirits. Here's Secret Service Director Sean Curran. Very fortunate that this officer is alive, is being observed. And I'm grateful that the president

reached out to this officer and spoke with him earlier. Investigators say at this point, the subject appears to have acted alone and that there's no ongoing threat to the public. The investigation is continuing. For NPR News, I'm Jenny Abamu and Wai. Washington. President Trump held a news conference not long after the shooting took place. He acknowledged that this wasn't his first time having to deal with a scare like this one. It's always shocking when something like this happens, happened to me a little bit, and that never changes. The suspected gunman is expected to be arraigned on Monday on weapons charges and assault. The expected peace talks in Pakistan are off, President Trump said Saturday, that he told his

envoys not to travel to Islamabad and Tehran's prime minister left Pakistan on Saturday. Iranian officials have questioned the trustworthiness of the U.S. while President Trump said too much time has been spent traveling. British pharmacists are warning that the Iran War has left cancer patients without vital drugs. Vicki Barker reports from London. The National Pharmacy Association reports that supply chain issues caused by the Iran War have already created severe shortages of drugs used to treat skin and skin. pancreatic cancers. And its research, shared with Britain's daily telegraph newspaper, found all 400 pharmacies

surveyed also report price increases in some of the most common medicines used to treat the side effects of cancer treatment. The disruption to shipping and air freight routes, as well as higher fuel costs, means some pharmacies have seen prices rise by as much as 11-fold since February. And they warn that, without a resolution to the conflict, more medications could soon run out or see further price rises or both. For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London. Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister, Victor Orban, says he will not take his seat in Parliament after his landslide election loss this month. In a video statement released Saturday, he said that he will instead focus on rebuilding his nationalist political community. His loss on April 12th ended his 16 years in power. His challenger

one a two-thirds majority after promising to end corruption. You're listening to NPR News. Researchers have found remnants of what they say is the largest invertebrate ever documented, gargantuan octopuses. All right, Daniel, has more. A team of scientists sliced through large rocks that had formed on the seafloor a hundred million years ago. They created 3D reconstructions of any fossils inside, which included a handful of octopoles. jaws, the only hard part in these soft-bodied creatures. The jaws allowed an estimation of the animal's body size, and they were likely colossal, each one larger than a school bus.

Yorg Mutalosa is a paleontologist at Rory University, Bohem. Just few fossil findings may shed very new light on the evolution of the biosphere. The results paint a vivid picture of the ocean ecosystem of the late Cretaceous, one that would have been filled with a variety of large and hungry predators. For NPR news, I'm Ari Daniel. Officials in Colombia say 13 people were killed Saturday when an explosive device was ignited on a bus. At least 38 other people were injured.

The governor of the southwest region where the attack occurred posted on social media that the explosion happened while the bus was traveling along the Pan American Highway. Violence linked to drug trafficking has been escalating in the area over the past several months. A pregnant woman and her two children were buried in Gaza, Saturday. Saturday, they were killed along with at least 10 others and strikes by Israeli forces on Friday. Israel's military says they were targeting militants who were threatening Israeli troops. Eight people were killed in Con Unis when Israel targeted a police vehicle there.

I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.