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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Two National Guard members are in critical condition after being shot just two blocks from the White House this afternoon. Police say a suspect walked up to the troops and opened fire before being subdued. The suspect was also shot and is now in custody. M. Pair's Tom Bowman is near the Farragut-West Metro Station where the shooting took place. Police closed off the area. We couldn't get within a block of the metro station, but we did talk with two young women, Eminem McDonald and Lela Christopher. her from northern Virginia, who were just coming out of the metro, moments after it happened.

Here's Layla. We were getting off the metro coming from Vienna, and we were getting off at Farragut Square, and then we, like, came up to the street, and a National Guardsperson told us to, like, run. So they ran into a bakery a few steps away. Customers in there told them they heard six shots. Many people were afraid. Others were just sitting there drinking their coffee. That's NPR's Tom Bowman.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegsa says the city is safe, but, he's ordering 500 more troops there. A state court judge has dismissed the election interference criminal case in Georgia against President Trump at the request of the special prosecutor. From member station W.A.B.E. in Atlanta. Alex Helmick has more. Prosecutor Pete Scandalakis took over the massive RICO case that involved 14 others earlier this month after Fulton County D.8 Fawney Willis was removed. In a statement, Scandalakis said he decided not to pursue the case against the president

in the interest of justice. It was unlikely that legal action against Trump could have moved forward while he's president. The case stemmed from Trump narrowly losing Georgia to President Joe Biden in 2020, launching a series of events, including Trump's phone call to state officials looking for 11,780 votes.

Trump's attorney said the case should never have been brought. For NPR News, I'm Alex Helmick in Atlanta. The Hong Kong government says at least 36 people have died in a massive fire. that tore through a high-rise complex in that city, 279 people are still missing. The fire began in one building before jumping to six more in a public housing complex.

And as NPR's Emily Fang reports, it's already prompting questions about why the complex went up in flames so quickly. The fire also spread from the high-rise housing complex, which is home to about 4,600 people, to a nearby school. The buildings had been due for renovation, and they had been encased in bamboo scaffolding,

which quickly caught fire. Last year, the region's government started phasing out bamboo in favor of steel because it is fire resistant. All this week, Hong Kong has been under a red grade for fire danger because of warm and dry weather. Hong Kong's chief executive, John Lee, visited hundreds of the surviving residents now sheltering in a nearby community center. Emily Fang and Pierr News. Stocks finished up across the board today.

The S&P 500 rose 46 points. The Dow was up 314 points. You're listening to NPR News. New research highlights that costs climate change as having on Africans' health. The studies come on the heels of the United Nations' international climate negotiations where many African countries pushed for stronger commitments to clean up climate pollution. NPR's Alejandro Burundup has more on that story. Countries across Africa are responsible for a tiny fraction of climate pollution,

but the bad outcomes from climate change, are far higher, according to a new report in the medical journal The Lancet. It says climate change is increasing the risks from things like insects spread diseases like dengue fever or malaria, and climate fuel disasters like Libya's 2023 floods are displacing or killing thousands of people. Another study in the journal science advances focuses on the growing danger of nighttime heat. Extra warm nights are a hallmark of climate change, and they're particularly unhealthy since people's bodies usually recover during nights. Increased night heat in Africa, where few people have air conditioning,

has driven a nearly 20% increase in heat deaths since 2010. Alejandra Burunda, NPR News. The Trump administration says it will end what's known as temporary protected status for some 353,000 Haitians now living in the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Christine Noam says they have identified no extraordinary or temporary conditions in that country that would prevent those migrants from returning back to their home country. The U.N. says most of the nation's capital is controlled by warring gangs.

Much of the nation is also facing a major health crisis because of the ongoing fighting there. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.