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Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, law enforcement officials in Utah are trying to find a suspect in the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Steve Futterman reports from Orem, Utah. It is a massive effort involving state, federal, and local jurisdictions. Bill Mason is with the Utah Department of Public Safety. We're working in unison with the county sheriff's office, the local police department, and the university police department. For a while yesterday, law enforcement officials thought they might have the gunman.

But after intense questioning, the person was released. Utah Governor Spencer Cox. To whoever did this, we will find you. Last night, many were making a pilgrimage of sorts to the school, including Chris Stomas. It's shocking, to be honest, I would not have expected this at all. All classes have been canceled until Monday. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Orem, Utah. A Colorado high school student shot and wounded two fellow students yesterday at a Denver area.

school. Authorities say he also killed himself. A South Korean charter plane is waiting in Atlanta to bring home hundreds of detained South Korean workers. They were swept up in a U.S. immigration rate on a Hyundai plant last week. There's concern the sweep could stop South Korean companies from doing business in the southeastern U.S. from member station WABE, Marlon Hyde has more. Hyundai has said it's investing $26 billion in the United States for the next three years. Troy Stangrun is the former director of the Hyundai Motor Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy. He says the raid on the auto plant could jeopardize future investments. We're going to see not just Korean firms, but I think foreign firms more broadly, be more cautious about their workers are sending to the United States to try and help set up facilities.

He says South Korea has also committed to investing billions more into the U.S. Meanwhile, some companies are asking workers to avoid traveling to the U.S. For NPR news, I'm Marlon Hyde in Atlanta. New data from the Center's for Disease Control and Prevention show that COVID-19 is no longer one of the top 10 causes of death in the United States. And Pierce Ping Huang reports it's the first time since 2020 that COVID-19 has dropped from this list. COVID was once the third leading cause of death in the U.S. But more people died from causes such as suicide, diabetes, kidney disease, and unintentional injury, bumping COVID off the list of the top 10 leading causes.

of U.S. deaths. Many more died from heart disease and cancer, which have been the top two leading causes of death for more than a decade. Overall, deaths last year were down 4% from the previous year, and the decline extended across the board to most age groups and to people of all races and ethnicities. Within that, rates were still higher for men than women, for older adults, and for Black Americans. Ping Huang, NPR News On Wall Street in pre-market trading, Dow futures are higher. This is NPR. This is the 24th anniversary of the terror attacks on the United States that killed nearly 3,000 people. Al-Qaeda militants crashed planes into the World Trade Center buildings in New York in the Pentagon.

Passengers and crew aboard a hijacked plane stormed a cockpit on the plane they were on. The militants crashed it into a rural Pennsylvania field. The New York City Medical Examiner's Office is still trying to identify the remains of some of the people killed in the attacks and Pierce Joe Hernandez reports. Last month, the medical examiner identified the remains of three more victims of the World Trade Center attacks. The office has been reaching out to the family members of those who died and asking if they want to submit a DNA sample that can be used to try to find a match. Chief medical examiner Dr. Jason Graham says the office is working to keep a promise made more than two decades ago.

That commitment was a very solemn promise to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to get them identified. Technological advancements have also made it possible to find DNA on bone fragments that had tested negative in the past. About 40% of victims who died at the World Trade Center have never had any of their remains identified. Joe Hernandez, NPR News. The government is set to release its latest monthly report on consumer prices today.

Some analysts expect inflation rose 2.9% in August compared to a year ago. Yesterday, the federal government released its inflation. report at the wholesale level. That found that wholesale prices dropped one-tenth of one percent in August compared to the same time a year ago. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News.