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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. President Trump says the Army sergeant who opened fire at a military base in Georgia today will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Trump called the attack on five soldiers an atrocity. The entire nation is praying for the victims and their families, and hopefully they'll fully recover, and we can put this chapter behind, but we're not going to forget. What happened? I'm going to take very good care of this person that did this horrible person.

The alleged gunman was quickly subdued by fellow soldiers and was arrested. The Army has opened an investigation to determine a motive. The servicemen are expected to recover. Speaking at the White House tonight, the president also announced that Apple is investing $100 billion to expand U.S. production. The move is aimed at protecting its iPhone business from Trump's. tariffs. It brings Apple's total planned U.S. investments to $600 billion over the next four years. Immigration and customs enforcement announced it will have a thousand beds available for detention at the Miami Correctional Center, a state prison in Indiana. NPR's Jimenez-Bustillo

reports the expansion is a part of continued efforts to collaborate with states in President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration. DHS said the agreement with the Indiana Department of Corrections was made possible by an influx of congressional funding. The large tax and spending bill signed into law gave ICE $45 billion for immigration detention centers. The American Immigration Council estimates that the new funding could expand detention capacity to at least 1,600,000 beds. Immigration detention has continued to max out capacity. Federal agents face pressure to increase arrests, and the administration now mandates detaining anyone who entered the country illegally.

Humanibustia, NPR News, Washington. Jordan says convoys of food aid to Gaza are being attacked by Israeli settlers who are trying to block the aid. NPR's JANRAF reports that some of the trucks have had to turn back. The Jordanian government says Israeli settlers have repeatedly attacked its convoys and set up roadblocks to prevent food from reaching Gaza. It said in the latest incident Sunday, settlers punctured tires of several aid trucks on route to Gaza after they crossed the border from Jordan to the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israel says it dispersed the protesters after the attack.

A group of UN-backed experts say famine is now unfolding in Gaza. Israel, in July, in response to U.S. and other pressure, began allowing Jordan and other countries to send limited amounts of food to Gaza. Jane Arraf, NPR News, Amman. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. U.S. L.A. says the Trump administration has frozen nearly $600 million in federal research funding.

The Justice Department has accused the school of violating civil rights laws by failing to prevent a hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students. The university has agreed to meet with the administration but says the freezing funding won't help address anti-Semitism on campus. When female guerrillas leave their social group to join a new one, they prefer to join a group that contains familiar female faces. NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boyce reports a new study shows the long-term power of female relationships in this species and the deep evolutionary roots of the way that humans move around while retaining long-lasting social ties. For decades, workers with the Diane Fossee Gorilla Fund have been close to. 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. I'm Windsor Johnston, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.