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Immigration raids, masked ice agents, Operation Patriot. Our podcast, Here and Now Anytime is looking at Trump's agenda of mass deportation through the eyes of one state. I'm coming to Boston. I'm bringing hell with me. Listen to the podcast, Here and Now Anytime from NPR and WBOR. A manhunt continues for the assassin who killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. In a video response, President Trump blamed the attack on political rhetoric from the left. In the video, shot in the Oval Office, President Trump praised Kirk for his conservative activism and commitment to open debate. Trump said what happened to Kirk is a direct consequence of people demonizing those they disagree with in hateful and despicable ways.

and then turned his ire to the political left. Radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives. Tonight, I ask all Americans to commit themselves to the American values for which Charlie Kirk lived and died. There have been recent cases of right-wing political violence as well, but Trump didn't mention those. Tamara Keith, NPR News. The Trump administration's federalization of policing in the nation's, capital expired at midnight eastern time. But as NPR Squirrel Lawrence reports, the Washington D.C. National Guard has extended its deployment. The D.C. Guard's 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 and P.R. News.

Poland's foreign minister, Radislav Sikorsky, says Russia is mocking U.S. efforts to get a ceasefire in Ukraine. The remark coming after Russian drones violated Polish airspace during a major assault on Ukraine, early Wednesday. Sikorski says Poland, NATO and the European Union will not be intimidated by Russia. Poland has activated NATO's Article 4, which provides for joint consultations between NATO allies, quote, whenever in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the parties is threatened, end quote. In a post on social media, Sikorsky said that NATO and Poland have determined. that drones made in Russia did not enter Poland's airspace by accident. He says it has happened

19 times. At least two teenagers are in critical condition following a shooting at their high school in Evergreen, Colorado. Authorities say the 18-year-old suspected shooter died later of apparently self-inflicted wounds. Evergreen is situated 30 miles west of Denver. This is NPR. It's been 24 years since terrorists used planes to attack the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon killing almost 3,000 Americans. Another 40 people were killed by forcing another plane to crash in southwestern Pennsylvania, preventing terrorists from reaching another target. NASA scientists say they're a step closer to learning whether Mars once hosted forms of life.

NPR's Bill Chappell has the story. NASA researchers say they're a step closer. They found potential signatures of life in a rock sample from an ancient river valley on Mars. Nikki Fox is an associate administrator of NASA's science mission directorate. This finding by our incredible Perseverance Rover is the closest we've actually come to discovering ancient life on Mars. The rock sample has patterns of what researchers call leopard spots made of minerals. Fox says that on Earth, such patterns are often linked to biological processes. It's kind of the equivalent of seeing leftover fossils, you know, leftovers from amoeuvre.

and maybe that meal's been excreted by a microbe, and that's what we're seeing in this sample. NASA wants to bring the samples back to Earth for more analysis, but right now, there's no plan or money to do that. Bill Chappell, NPR News. Award-winning actress Polly Holliday has died at the age of 88. Holliday is best known for her role as Flo in the sitcom Alice, which aired on CBS from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. She appeared in more than three dozen TV shows, movies over a career that spanned more than five decades. U.S. futures are flat in pre-market trading on Wall Street. This is NPR News.