NPR News Now - NPR News: 09-10-2025 4PM EDT

Episode Date: September 10, 2025

NPR News: 09-10-2025 4PM EDTLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump is asking for prayers for Charlie Kirk, an influential figure in the MAGA movement after a shooting today at an event in Utah. NPR's Tamara Keith reports Kirk was the apparent target. The extent of his injuries is not yet known. In a post on truth social, Trump said, quote, we all must pray for Charlie Kirk, who has been shot, a great guy from top to bottom. God bless him. Kirk was a key Trump surrogate and supporter registering voters and rallying young conservatives to back Trump in 2024. A MAGA influencer with a wide reach, Kirk was speaking at a rally at Utah Valley University in Orem when the shooting took place. It was the first stop on Talking Point USA's American comeback tour, which was set to visit 15 college campuses. Trump joins a groundswell of politicians in both parties calling for prayers for Kirk and his family. Tamara Keith, NPR News, the White House. In recordings on social media, there were discussions about mass shootings when the single gunshot could be heard.

One video shows Kirk sitting in a chair holding a microphone under a tent when the shot is fired. He's seen grabbing his neck and falling out of his chair. University officials say a suspect is in custody. The Trump administration's federalization of policing in the nation's capital expires today, but as NPR's Quill Lawrence tells us, the Washington, D.C. National Guard has extended its deployment assisting law enforcement in the district. The D.C. Guards encampment has been extended

through at least November 30th, which should guarantee the troops will qualify for uninterrupted benefits and pay, according to National Guard rules. In a Facebook video, Brigadier General Leland Blanchard notes that they're spending time away from their families and their normal day jobs. Thank you to all of our soldiers and airmen.

Thank you to the families. Thank you to our employers. Without you, we couldn't do this. It's not clear if the other eight states that have sent almost 1,400 additional guard will also extend. The White House says crime is down, but the D.C. mayor's office says violent crime had already been falling for months. Quill Lawrence, NPR News. Russia's drone incursion in Poland airspace overnight prompted the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tust to invoke Article 4 of the NATO Treaty. And PR's

Dronica Kisses has more. Poland's military has said that it shot down several of these drones. And Tusk says it's the first time NATO has shot down a Russian military asset since the the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Now, NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta calls the incursion reckless, even if it wasn't deliberate and said NATO forces from Poland. The Netherlands, Germany, and Italy helped shoot down these drones. NPR's Joanna Kisses reporting on the fallout of the breach resulting from Russia's ongoing war with Ukraine, Poland's neighbor. At last check on Wall Street, we see the Dow is down 253 points before the close. You're listening to NPR.

The Senate Committee advanced Stephen Myron's nomination of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors along party lines. The White House Economic Advisers widely expected to be approved by the full Senate. Scientists are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their ability to detect shock waves from colliding black holes. NPR's Nell-Greenfield voice reports they've detected hundreds of black hole mergers, allowing them to probe some of the most extreme events in the universe. It was September 14th, 2015, when two massive detectors, one in Washington State and one in Louisiana, caught the distinctive signal of so-called gravitational waves. predicted by Albert Einstein almost a century earlier, these waves moved through space after being created by cataclysmic events, in this case two colliding black holes. Since then,

scientists have improved their detectors dramatically. And now in the journal, physical review letters, researchers describe the clearest signal yet. It let them essentially watch two black holes growing as they merged into one, allowing them to verify a key theory about the growth of black holes that was put forth by physicist Stephen Hawking in 1971. Nell Greenfield Boyce, NPR News. Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison replaces Elon Musk as the world's richest man, according to Bloomberg. Ellison is said to be worth $393 billion. However, Forbes apparently still ranks Musk as the richest man in the world. The Dow's closed down 220 points, ending the day at 45,490. It's NPR.