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Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corva Coleman, authorities in Utah have held a news conference to discuss yesterday's shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Utah's commissioner of public safety, Beau Mason, says officials have an idea of what the suspect may look like. We do have good video footage of this individual. We are not going to release that at this time. We are working through some technologies and some ways to identify this individual. If we are unsuccessful, we will reach out to you as the media and we will push that part. publicly to help us identify them. But we're confident in our abilities right now, and we would like to move forward in a manner that keeps everyone safe and moves this process appropriately. Authorities say they believe the suspect is a person who is college-aged. They say they've

recovered the weapon used in the shooting. It is a high-powered bolt-action rifle discovered in a nearby wooded area. President Trump is at the Pentagon this morning speaking at the September 11th Memorial Service. One of the four planes used by military. Militants crashed into the side of the Pentagon 24 years ago. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people. Stocks opened higher this morning, as the Labor Department reported an uptick in inflation last month. NPR Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained about 438 points in early training. Consumers paid higher prices last month for groceries, gasoline, and other goods.

The overall cost of living in August was up 2.9% from a year ago. That's a bigger annual jump than the previous month, and stubborn inflation may complicate the Federal Reserve's calculation, as it considers cutting interest rates. The central bank is still widely expected to lower its benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point when policymakers meet next week. The Fed's in a tight spot, though, as it faces both rising prices and a sagging job market. In a separate report, the Labor Department says new applications for unemployment benefits jumped last week to their highest level in almost four years. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. Officials in Poland and with NATO say they are awaiting the results of a military assessment. They have not yet decided on a response to more than a dozen Russian drones that flew into Polish airspace early yesterday.

NPR's Rob Schmitz has more. Polish authorities say they found the wreckage of several drones. All of them were the Shahid-style attack drones Russia uses in its attacks on Ukrainian cities. A spokesperson for the prosecutor's office in Lublin, a city near Ukraine, says the drones. found so far were unarmed so-called dummy drones used by Russia to fool Ukrainian air defenses. Russia's defense ministry said it had not planned to hit any targets in Poland and suggested that Poland was out of range of its drones, which is not true. The incursion has reignited safety concerns over the vulnerability of civil air transport in Europe. It was the first time

in the history of NATO that alliance fighter jets engaged enemy targets in allied airspace. Rob Schmitz and Pierre News, Berlin. You're listening to NPR. News from Washington. British Prime Minister Kier Starrmer has fired his ambassador to the United States. This is over links to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And P.R.'s Lauren Freyer has more from London. Even after Jeffrey Epstein was indicted, Peter Mandelson, then a top center-left British politician, wrote him a 2008 email saying, quote,

Your friends stay with you and love you. Photos have also emerged of Mandelson in a bathrobe at Epstein's home, and a birthday message in which Mandelson called Epstein his best pal. The British Foreign Office says emails show the extent of Mandelson's relationship with the late sex offender was materially different than what was known at the time he was appointed as ambassador. Mandelson's sacking complicates Starmer's efforts to build bridges with the Trump administration, just days before the U.S. President comes here for a state visit. Lauren Friar, NPR News, London. Colorado authorities say a teenager shot and wounded two other students yesterday at his high school

outside of Denver. This student then took his own life. One of the wounded students remains in critical condition. There's no word of a possible motive for the shooting. California Governor Gavin Newsom says the Trump administration is going to stop letting motorists in electric vehicles and other clean cars use carpool lanes. The change takes effect October 1st across the country. California Governor Newsom says that means carpool lanes will only be reserved for vehicles carrying more than one occupant. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News.