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This message comes from Bayer. Science is a rigorous process that requires questions, testing, transparency, and results that can be proven. This approach is integral to every breakthrough Bayer brings forward. Innovations that save lives and feed the world. Science Delivers.com. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. Two National Guard members from West Virginia were shot just two blocks from the White House today. They're now in critical condition.

Police say the suspect came around a corner and immediately. started firing at the troops. The suspect was shot and is now in custody. Defense Secretary Pete Hagsath says 500 more troops are needed in the district. The drop in crime has been historic. The increase in safety and security has been historic. But if criminals want to conduct things like this, violence against America's best, we will never back down. When Trump said in the Guard, violent crime in D.C. was at its lowest levels. In 30 years, the Guard was initially deployed for crime fighting. But some much of their time has since been spent picking up trash and doing beautification projects.

The Georgia criminal case against President Trump and more than a dozen of his allies for their efforts to try to overturn the 2020 election result is officially over. A state judge dismissed the case in its entire today after a special prosecutor moved to drop all charges. And Pierre Sam Greenglass has our reports. The prosecution was the last outstanding criminal case against the president after a pair of federal prosecutions were dropped earlier this year. In 2023, a grand jury in Fulton County charged Trump and 18 others in a sweeping racketeering case, spurred in part by Trump's call to Georgia's Secretary of State asking him to find votes.

Pete Scandalakis, director of the state prosecuting attorney's counsel, took over the case after a court disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fawney Willis over an alleged conflict of interest, stemming from an improper relationship with a special prosecutor. Scandalakis found that the alleged criminal conduct was conceived in Washington, D.C., writing the federal government is the appropriate venue for this prosecution. Sam Gringlass, NPR News. White House Envoy Ste Wyckoff heads to Moscow next week looking for approval from Russian president, Vladimir Putin, for a draft peace plan with Ukraine. The plan is now said to be fine-tuned after Kiev had dismissed the initial plan because it favored Moscow. As NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports, meanwhile, leaked telephone,

conversations appeared to show Whitkoff coaching a Putin aid on just how to handle Trump. NPR can't independently confirm the authenticity of the mid-October call leaked and published by Bloomberg, but in the call, Whitkoff expresses his, quote, deep respect for Putin. He instructs the advisor to tell Putin to call President Trump and flatter him over his recent mid-east deal. Ukrainian parliamentarian Alexander Moresko believes Whitko should have been replaced after an interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson highlighted his lack of, of knowledge about Ukraine and the conflict. We know that we're dealing with people in the entourage of President Trump who take

pro-Russian position, unfortunately. Luckily, there are people who stand firm with American national interests and who continue to support Ukraine. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Key. And you're listening to NPR News. Federal judges are allowing North Carolina to use a redrawn congressional map in next year's midterm elections. The map is designed to give Republicans an additional seat in the U.S. House. The map is targeting the state's only swing district, which is currently held by Democratic

Representative Don Davis. President Trump has been pushing for such mid-decade map changes ahead of the 2026 elections. Warner Music Group, which is one of the biggest record labels in the world, has signed licensing deals with two artificial intelligence companies he was formerly suing. NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento has our reports. Warner is partnering with two AI song generators, Suno and UDio. The new deals will allow paid users of the AI platforms to create songs with the voices of artists and compositions of songwriters who agree to participate.

Some of Warner's biggest stars include Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, and Dua Lepa. Warner was previously part of several labels suing Suno and Udio, for copyright infringement. The company pledges that these new deals will allow artists and songwriters to be properly compensated for how their work is used in AI music models.

Isabella Gomez-Armiento NPR News. A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new photo of the butterfly nebula. The nebula is 2,500 to 3,800 light years away. At the heart of the nebula

is a white dwarf star that long ago discarded its outer layers of gas. That gas gives the nebula its butterfly-like appearance. The National Science Foundation released that photo today. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News. This message comes from Wise, the app for using money around the globe.

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