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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Five soldiers are being treated for injury sustained in a shooting today at Fort Stewart in southeast Georgia. The alleged gunman, a fellow soldier, is in custody. Motive is unknown. Two Texas lawmakers say they were forced to evacuate their hotel in Illinois this morning after a bomb threat. The Democrats are part of a larger group that left the state to block a Republican redistricting plan. They left Texas. The Texas newsrooms, Lucio Vasquez, has details. Texas representatives John Busey and Ann Johnson say they're safe after a bomb threat forced them out of their hotel in Illinois.

The St. Charles Police Department says more than 400 people were evacuated, but that no explosive devices were found. The two state lawmakers are part of the more than 50 Texas House Democrats who left the state earlier this week to break quorum and stop a redistricting bill from advancing. The proposed map could add as many as five new Republican-held congressional seats in Texas, a plan that's been championed by President Donald Trump. Governor Greg Abbott and other Texas Republicans have threatened to arrest officials and even remove them from office. The governor has already asked the Texas Supreme Court to remove the House Democratic leader. For NPR news, I'm Lucio Vosquez in Houston. As the U.S. prepares to move forward with new sanctions against Russia for not committing to a ceasefire with Ukraine,

Special envoy, Steve Whitkoff, paid another visit to Moscow today. Here's NPR's Charles Mainz. Despite some three hours of talks, it's not yet clear how much the two sides were able to bridge stark differences. President Putin continues to maintain Russia has the momentum on the battlefield and will reach its goals in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Trump says he means that when he says new secondary sanctions and tariffs will hit Russian energy exports starting Friday if the fighting continues. Yet Kremlin officials put a largely positive spin on what amounted to Wittkoff's fifth sit-down. with Putin this year. Kremlin advisor Yuri Ushakov called the talks constructive and useful, and Wittkov's Russian counterpart, Kremlin envoy Kareel Dmitrov, said the meetings showed

dialogue between the U.S. and Russia would prevail. Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow. Attorney General Pambandis reportedly launched a grand jury investigation into the Obama administration's handling of the now-decade-old probe of Russian interference on the 2016 presidential vote. It was first reported by Fox News, confirmed by other outlets, NPR, had not independently confirmed the reporting, and the Justice Department declined a comment. Susan Miller spent 39 years with the CIA before she retired last year. The former chief of counterintelligence defended the agency's report on Russia's interference.

We never claimed any votes were changed. All we said was that the Russians influenced the election, and they had multiple ways to do that. Susan Miller on NPR's Morning Edition. At last check on Wall Street, U.S. stocks were trading higher with the Dow up 120. points. This is NPR News. The U.S. is auctioning off a 348-foot-long Russian yacht that was seized three years ago and is now docked in San Diego. The U.S. and its allies have targeted Russian oligarchs and their super yachts as part of a broader attempt to pressure President Vladimir Putin into ending the war with Ukraine. The luxury yacht called Amadea has an estimated value of 320.2.000.

$25 million. The auction closes September 10th. Rising temperatures are complicating in operation to contain a 131-square-mile wildfire in Central California. The Gifford fire threatens more than 870 homes and other structures at the northern perimeter of Las Padres National Forest. When female guerrillas leave their social group to join a new one, they prefer to join a group that contains familiar female faces. That's according to a new study. Here's NPR's NPR's Nell Green For decades, workers with the Diane Fossi Gorilla Fund have been closely observing groups of mountain gorillas in Rwanda. Now in a science journal called Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers say they've used all this data to figure out what matters to female guerrillas

when they leave one social group and go live with another, something they can do multiple times over the course of their lives. It turns out that when picking a new group to join, Female gorillas are strongly attracted to ones with other females they've lived with and been friendly with before, even if they hadn't been together for years. Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News. This is NPR.