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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jail Snyder. Police in Minneapolis have stepped up patrols around houses of worship following Wednesday's shooting during mass at Annunciation Catholic Church and school. NPR's Jason DeRose reports that area clergy are working to comfort a grieving community. After inexplicable loss, Pastor Sarah Jensen of Lutheran Church of Christ Redeemer, says she often hears people say, God doesn't give us anything we can't handle. I don't believe. that God gives us things one way or the other world.

The world gives us things. And often the world gives us things we can't handle. But that doesn't mean, Jensen says, abandonment. God gives us each other because we can't handle everything on our own. We weren't created for that. We were created to lean on each other. Jensen says neighbors, friends, and congregations can help to buoy each other in a world that's sometimes scary and often doesn't make sense.

Jason DeRose, NPR News, Minneapolis. Two students were killed in the shooting, 18, wounded, nearly all of them, children, at least seven victims were still hospitalized as of Saturday. Chinese President Xi Jinping says China and India are partners and not rivals. The world today is swept by once in a century transformations. The international situation is both fluid and chaotic. China and India are the world's most populous countries. It's the right choice for both sides to be friends,

who have neighborly and amicable ties, partners who enable each other's success, and to have the dragon and the elephant dance together. President Xi heard through a BBC interpreter. He and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met today on the sidelines of a regional security summit in the Chinese city of Tianjin. Modi is on his first visit to China

since relations deteriorated after border clashes five years ago between Chinese and Indian soldiers. The meeting coincides with President Trump's decision to impose steep tariffs on India because it continues to buy Russian oil. The labor movement preparing for mass Labor Day protests across the country, MPR's Andrew Hsu reports organizers have planned events in all 50 states. The theme of many of these events is workers over billionaires. AFL-CIO president, Lou Schuller, says, workers have stood up to billionaires before, but...

What we've never seen is those same CEOs and billionaires being handed full control of our government, our democracy, our lives. She highlighted four members of President Trump's cabinet who fit that category. Schuller says Trump is reversing progress on union jobs, including by stripping most federal workers of their collective bargaining rights and putting immigrant workers and their families in a state of fear. Meanwhile, in a proclamation, Trump called the American worker the beating heart of the economy and said his administration is restoring the dignity of labor. Andrea Shue, NPR News. This is NPR News.

The president of Indonesia has canceled a trip to China days of protests over excessive housing allowances that lawmakers gave themselves has spread further outside the Capitol. Former CBS News Radio White House correspondent Mark Nuller has died at the age of 73, known as a number guy, listeners, and later social media users counted on him for his meticulous record keeping of the president's activity. Here's NPR's Amy Health reporting. Born in Brooklyn in 1952, Mark Nuller became known as the Wikipedia of the White House. Starting at CBS News in 1988, the network says he grew frustrated by the lack of a central database chronicling the president's daily actions. So he became an unofficial presidential statistician. Let me call up my numbers.

A lot of numbers. How many trips the president made and where? Summits and golf outings. He tallied speeches and interviews. The minutia that make history. Nola reported across eight administrations and didn't mind the long hours, he told CBS's Katie Couric. I'm one of those lucky people that gets to work at something he loves doing. Nola retired from the radio in 2020, but kept up on Twitter as a source of presidential news.

Amy held and PR News. The powerball jackpot now tops $1 billion. The lottery says there was no winner from last night's drawing and that no one has matched all six numbers since the end of May, allowing the jackpot to grow to an estimated $1.1 billion, which would be Powerball's fifth largest jackpot ever. The next drawing is tomorrow night. I'm Jail Snyder, NPR News.