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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan.

Conservative youth organizer and media personality Charlie Kirk died today after being shot while speaking at the University in Utah.

He was 31.

As NPR's Elena Moore reports, Kirk spent more than a decade in GOP politics and became one of the most influential voices in the young conservatism movement.

Charlie Kirk co-founded Turning Point USA when he was just 18, with a goal of building an organization for young conservatives.

He became a face of the young MAGA movement, and his group's advocacy wing worked with the Trump campaign to mobilize new voters.

Speaking to NPR the day after the election, Kirk reflected on Trump's gains with young Americans.

They

Elena Moore, NPR News.

This evening at the White House, President Trump recorded a video statement discussing his friend and political supporter, Charlie Kirk.

This is a dark moment for America.

Charlie Kirk traveled the nation, joyfully engaging with everyone interested in good faith debate.

His mission was to bring young people into the political process, which he did better than anybody ever.

The White House ordered American flags at all federal buildings and military installations lowered to half staff until Sunday evening, September the 14th, to honor Kirk.

The Trump administration's control of Washington, D.C.'s police department is set to end tonight.

Local leaders are breathing a sigh of relief.

From member station WAMU, Alex Coma has more on what happens next.

Trump has had ultimate authority over the department for the last month after taking the unprecedented step of declaring a crime emergency in the city.

Congress could have extended the emergency beyond 30 days, but Republican leaders declined to vote on the matter.

D.C.

Mayor Muriel Bowser says this means D.C.

police will once again limit their cooperation with immigration agents, a particular point of friction with the city.

Immigration enforcement is not what MPD does.

And with the end of the emergency, it won't be what MPD does in the future.

Though Trump's control of the police may be ending, he's vowed to keep federal law enforcement agents and National Guard troops in D.C.

indefinitely.

For NPR News, I'm Alex Coma in Washington, D.C.

Three former FBI agents are suing their former employer to get their jobs back, and they allege that the FBI director Cash Mattell caved to political pressure to dismiss them.

The lawsuit said Patel indicated to one of the agents he likely knew the firings were illegal, but he was unable to stop them because of pressure from the Justice Department and the White House.

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A shooting at a school about 30 miles west of Denver sent three teenagers to hospitals today.

The shootings took place at around midday at Evergreen High School.

It's in Jefferson County, Colorado.

That's about 20 miles east of Columbine High School, the site of one of the worst high school shootings in U.S.

history that left 13 students and one teacher dead in 1999.

The sheriff's office said tonight that a suspect is in custody, and that person has a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Actor Polly Holliday, who starred as Flo in the sitcom Alice and then later her own spin-off, has died.

She passed away at her home in Manhattan on Tuesday at the age of 88.

NPR's Elizabeth Blair has this appreciation.

Flo Castleberry was the gum-chewing, wise-cracking waitress in Mel's Diner on Alice in the late 1970s.

She had a famous catchphrase, Kiss Matt!

The role earned Polly Holiday four Emmy nominations and two Golden Globes.

Polly Jean Holiday was born in Jasper, Alabama in 1937.

After earning a master's in music education from Florida State University, she joined the Oslo Repertory Theater Company in Sarasota, where she performed classic plays by Shakespeare and Chekhov.

Holiday was nominated for a Tony Award for her portrayal of Big Mama and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Her movie credits include Gremlins and the Parent Trap, Elizabeth Blair, NPR News.

The Republican majority in the House of Representatives is shrinking by one.

Democrat James Wackinshaw was sworn in today.

I'm Dan Ronan, NPR News in Washington.

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