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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. Police in Chester County, Pennsylvania, say at least one person was killed and six others injured Saturday night during a shooting at Lincoln University. It was homecoming weekend at the historically black university. The shooting took place about 9.30 in the evening outside the school's international cultural center. Police have detained one person, they say, had a gun, but are not saying he was involved with a shooting. The county's district attorney also says there may have been more than one shooter. So far, they've offered no motive for the incident. President Trump is in Malaysia for the Southeast Asian Nation Summit, while there he hopes to formalize a trade deal with Malaysia.

As Trump arrives, he's facing criticism from some of the group's members, as NPR's Anthony Kuhn tells us, they're concerned about Trump's U.S. focus. There's some criticism in the region that ASEAN and APEC are multilateral forums. They're promoting regional integration and free trade, while the U.S. seems to be focused on great power competition and trade protectionism. President Trump wants to preside over a Thai-Cambodian ceasefire deal, apparently to burnish his peacemaker image, which has led to some criticism in the region that Trump is more focused on himself than Southeast Asia. NPRS Anthony Cune. Hurricane Melissa is in the Caribbean Sea and moving toward Jamaica, where it's expected to make landfall by early next week. It's slow moving, and Horace Glance of the Red Cross says rainfall is expected to be as high as 35 inches in some places.

A lot more is going to be expected in terms of the quantity. quantity to the volume of water that's going to be bearing down on us and, of course, more severe winds than would have experienced in previous events. Weather officials say Melissa could become a category four storm before making landfall, which would mean winds exceeding 130 miles an hour. Polls were open Saturday in Ivory Coast, with his oxygenarian leader hoping for a controversial fourth term. As Kate Bartlett reports, major opposition contenders have been barred from contesting the election. Ballot stations opened an ivory coast with over 8 million people registered to vote in the West African country, which is the world's biggest cocoa producer.

Alison Mutara, who came to power in 2010, says changes he oversaw to the Constitution in 2016, allow him to run for more than the two-term limit. Ahead of today's vote, he restricted gatherings and deployed thousands of security personnel. Four candidates are challenging the 83-year-old for the presidency, but the major candidates have been. blocked from running. Contested elections in the country, which fought a brutal civil war in the early 2000s, have seen deadly violence breakout in the past. For NPR news, I'm Kate Bartlett in Johannesburg. The World Series is now tied at one game apiece. That after the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday night by a score of 5 to 1. Yoshiyamamo Ramamoto retired his final 20 batters. Game 3 in the Best of 7 series takes place Monday night in Los

Angeles. This is NPR News. With more reports that Paramount is looking to buy Warner Brothers Discovery, the Writers Guild of America has released a statement which says that such a merger would be, quote, a disaster. While reports of the merger are unconfirmed, Warner Brothers Discovery did announce it was putting itself up for sale earlier this week. MPR's Andrew Limbong sorts it all out for us. To set the stage a bit, Warner Brothers Discovery is currently in the middle of separating itself into two companies. That move has generated unsolicited interest from multiple parties who are open to buying all or parts of the company. When reports came out that Paramount might be one of those interested parties, the Writers Guild of America, both East and West

branches, issued a statement sent to NPR stating that media mergers, harm workers, diminished competition, and would be a disaster for consumers. The unions also said they'd work with regulators to block the potential merger. NPR has reached out to representatives from both Paramount and WBD. Andrew Limbong and Pairn News. In college football Saturday, number two Indiana trounce UCLA 56 to 6. Marcel Reed threw for two touchdowns and ran for two more as number three Texas A&M beat number 20 LSU 49 to 25. It took a last minute rally for number four Alabama to be unranked South Carolina 29 to 22. Jordan Davis meanwhile ran for 102 yards and a pair of touchdowns as number six Oregon overcame a slow start to hand Wisconsin. It's six straight

loss, 21 to 7. Dante Moore threw for just 86 yards for the ducks. And Whitworth beat Lewis and Clark, 42 to 35, while the Grange beat Huntington 30 to 14. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.