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Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Herbst. The CIA says the suspect in yesterday's shooting of two members of the West Virginia National Guard blocks from the White House, identified as a 29-year-old Afghan National, worked with agency-backed units in Afghanistan. The Guard members are in critical condition. Now, President Trump says he'll deploy hundreds more National Guard troops to D.C. And Pierce D. Pia Shiverum reports. Trump said the shooter came to the U.S. from Afghanistan in September 2020.

in the aftermath of the U.S. pull out from Kabul during the Biden administration. He said now the U.S. needs to reexamine the refugees who came from Afghanistan under the Biden administration. There are roughly 200,000 of them in the U.S. We must now reexamine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden, and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here or add benefits. to our country. Trump did not provide details on how that reexamination would take place or what the timeline would be. Deepa Chivaram, NPR News. President Trump is defending his chief negotiator

after elite recording appeared to show him coaching a Russian official on how to get a better deal with Trump. NPR's Franco, Ordonez, reports. The controversy has shined a new spotlight on his special envoy, Steve Wittkov, and drawn criticism to the administration's ad hoc approach to securing peace deal. But Aaron David Miller, who served as a negotiator for Republican and Democratic administrations, says even a negotiating giant like Secretary of State Henry Kissinger would have a tough time with Russia. My experience in negotiations, they work, that is to say, deals are cut when there is urgency. And urgency is a function of two things. How much pain the parties are under and what are the prospects for gain?

The problem is that Miller just doesn't see the urgency in Moscow. And Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't seem ready to. make the kinds of concessions required to make a deal. Franco, Ordonez, NPR News. In new court papers, chat GPT maker OpenAI says it's not liable for the death of a teenager saying he missed used the chatbot. And peers Bobby Allen reports. Lawyers for OpenAI say a 16-year-old boy from Orange County, California, used the chatbot

as a suicide coach. The tech company says the boy's death was the result of the unauthorized use of ChatGPT. It's OpenAI's first legal response to a lawsuit that set off debate about the potential mental health dangers of powerful AI chatbots. The lawsuit contained chat log showing chat GPT discouraged the boy from seeking mental health treatment and even helped him write a suicide note. Since the suit, OpenAI has changed its AI models so that interactions with the chatbot are less affirming of what a user is asking about, which could include harms. Bobby Allen, NPR News. You're listening to NPR News. from Washington.

The death toll from a public housing apartment fire in Hong Kong has risen to at least 65, and many more are trapped as firefighters continue working on extinguishing the blaze that engulfed several towers in the complex that houses around 4,600 people. Scores are injured, hundreds are listed as missing, and thousands of people are now displaced. The cause of the blaze is under investigation, but the high-rise towers were undergoing renovation and covered in bamboo scaffolding. Three construction company executives are under arrest on suspicion of manslaughter after flammable building materials were found on the exterior of the tower blocks.

Like Turkey and Pumpkin Pie, family-oriented running races have become synonymous with Thanksgiving. Today, turkey trots are being held in all 50 states. Colorado Public Radio, Stina Sig, has more. From Los Angeles to Caribou, Maine, the U.S. is home to hundreds of turkey trots. Many raise money for charity, like the race in the small city of Grand Junction, Colorado. Organizer Wes Engbarth says these events are a fun way to get outside. Plus... Everybody feels a little bit better when they eat later in the day knowing that they did a 5K in the morning.

And so I think it's kind of a combination of those factors that things that makes them so popular. More than a million people ran a turkey trot last Thanksgiving, according to the website Run Sign Up. For NPR News, I'm Stina Sieg, in Grand Junction. Colorado. Wall Street is closed today for Thanksgiving and we'll have a shortened trading day tomorrow. I'm Janine Herb's NPR News in Washington.