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Maybe you're wondering, how do I escape quicksand or how do I break up with my dentists? Well, season two of NPR's How to Do Everything podcast is launching this fall and we will attempt to answer your questions. Sometimes we'll actually succeed. Send us your questions at how to at npr.org. That's how to at npr.org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. The influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who founded Turning Point USA, died today after being shot at an appearance at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Kirk launched his organization in 2012, targeting young voters to join the Republican Party and venturing onto liberal-leaning university campuses where many conservatives often would not go. He was taking questions about school shootings when one shot rang out. He was struck in the neck and died of children. few hours later. Utah's Governor Spencer Cock and other officials brief reporters a short time ago. Our nation is broken. We've had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the governor of Pennsylvania, and we had an attempted assassination on a presidential candidate and former president of the United States and now current president of the United

States. Nothing I say can unite us as a country. Nothing I can say right now can fix what is broken. Nothing I can say can bring back Charlie Kirk. The governor says a person of interest is in custody. Shortly before the news that Charlie Kirk had died at an event at the Utah, the Utah, the House Speaker Mike Johnson led the House in a moment of silence. On his way to the House floor, Speaker Johnson called for prayers for Kirk and his family. He says, political violence violates the country's core principles. We need every political figure. We need everyone who has a platform to say this loudly and clearly. We can settle disagreements and disputes in a civil manner, and political violence must be called out, and it has to stop.

Republicans and Democrats alike are echoing the speaker's call, saying that political violence is never acceptable. Deirdre Walsh, NPR News, the Capitol. President Trump is not giving up in his effort to fire a member of the Federal Reserve Governing Board. NPR Scott Horsley reports Trump plans to appeal a federal judges ruling Tuesday that said the firing was illegal. The Justice Department says President Trump will appeal a ruling by federal district judge Gia Cobb that allows Lisa Cook to keep her job on the Federal Reserve's governing board, at least for now. Trump tried to oust cook with a social media post last month after allegations from a Trump ally that Cook made false

statements on a mortgage application four years ago. Cook denies any mortgage. fraud. The judge said in any case, Cook should not be fired over actions that took place before she joined the central bank. The campaign to fire Cook comes amid a month-long effort by the president to exert more control over the Fed, even though the central bank was designed to be insulated from that kind of political pressure. Scott Horsley and Pear News, Washington. On Wall Street, stocks were mixed. The NASDAQ and the S&P were up. The Dow Jones Industrial was down. This is NPR. The Trump administration is moving to reverse a controversial public lands conservation rule enacted in the closing days of the Biden era. NPR's Kirk Siegler reports it is not unexpected.

The 2024 public lands rule was dense and complex, but at its core it aimed to put conservation on an equal footing with more traditional uses of federal public lands such as cattle grazing, mining, and outdoor recreating. It also aimed to limit the Bureau of Land Management's quarterly oil and gas. lease auctions required by federal law, and it allowed for conservation groups to bid on public land at auctions to preserve it instead of just opening it up for energy exploration. In a statement, President Trump's Interior Secretary Doug Bergam says the rule blocked access to those lands that rural communities depend on for timber and mining. Trump's public lands rule rescission is now subject to a 60-day public comment period before it will likely be reversed. Kirk Sigler and PR News, Boise. A lawyer for several South Korean workers who were detained last week at a Hyundai electric battery plant near Savannah, Georgia, said his clients were in the United States illegally and authorized under the B-1 business visa program.

The attorney who represents four workers said they had planned to be in the U.S. for a couple of weeks and no longer than 75 days. Last Thursday's raid at a battery factory that is under construction resulted in the detainment of 475 workers, 300 of 9,000. them are South Koreans. There's no word yet on when the workers can leave a charter flight is on hold. I'm Dan Ronan, NPR News in Washington. Support for NPR.