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22-year-old Tyler Robinson has been charged with murder and the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Kirk was shot Wednesday while speaking on a university campus in Utah, and Pierre's Bobby Bobby Allen has more on the suspects.

He doesn't have a criminal history.

Public records show that he doesn't seem to be affiliated with any political party.

He was a really bright student in high school.

He even earned a scholarship to attend Utah State University.

That's just north of here in Logan.

But he dropped out after one semester.

The university says that was back in 2021.

More recently, Robinson's family noted that he's become more politically active, which is a really crucial point since authorities are calling Charlie Kirk's killing a political assassination.

That's NPR's Bobby Allen reporting from Orem, Utah.

President Trump says he's sending the National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee.

NPR's Frank Ordonius reports on his next moves in his federal crackdown on crime.

In an interview with Fox and Friends, President Trump says his administration would next target Memphis after hearing concerns raised by business leaders.

We're going to Memphis.

I'm just announcing that now.

And we'll straighten out

National Guard and anybody else we need.

And by the way, we'll bring in the military too if we need it.

Trump said he would have preferred his next target to be Chicago, but he's faced resistance from the mayor and Illinois governor.

Last month, Trump sought to use emergency powers to take over control of the Metropolitan Police Department.

He deployed National Guard soldiers and sent hundreds of federal law enforcement officials to the capital.

Trump's also floated the idea of sending troops to New York and Baltimore.

Franco Ordoñas, NPR News, New York.

The U.S.

has the most expensive health care in the developed world, and it's about to get even more expensive.

As M.

Perez Maria Aspen reports, people who get insurance through their employers are going to pay a lot more for their benefits next year.

More than 150 million Americans get their health insurance through their employer, and now the price they pay is about to go way up.

Employers who provide health benefits are bracing for the highest cost increase in 15 years.

That's according to a new survey from Mercer, a benefits consultant.

The drug companies, hospitals, health insurers, and other for-profit companies that control much of the U.S.

healthcare system have been raising prices.

That gets passed on to employers, and now most employers told Mercer they're going to pass on some of those price hikes to their workers.

That means most workers will see higher paycheck deductions for health care premiums next year and higher out-of-pocket costs.

Maria Aspen, NPR News, New York.

NATO is adding more military equipment to regions bordering Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.

The equipment includes ground-based defense systems, a frigate, and Danish F-16s.

The move follows an incursion by Russian drones into Polish territory this week.

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The Trump administration has disbanded a controversial climate working group, which issued a report that scientists say was full of errors and misrepresented climate science.

And as NPR's Jeff Brady reports, now environmental groups want the report retracted.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright picked a group of four scientists and an economist with a history of casting doubt over climate science.

Then they issued a report to bolster the Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to end regulations on climate pollution.

Speaking at a conference in Belgium, Bright said the goal was to spur debate.

We've got all sorts of comments.

We're going to have public dialogues back and forth.

That's what we want, is to bring people that have different perspectives or disagree to dialogue together and argue it out.

But for nearly all climate scientists, the debate Secretary Wright wants is settled.

They say continuing it now is a tactic to forestall regulation.

Jeff Brady, NPR News.

The UN General Assembly Friday endorsed what it calls the New York Declaration, which offers support for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

The non-binding resolution sets out a phased plan to end the almost 80-year conflict.

The vote was 142 to 10 with 12 abstentions.

The war in Gaza is expected to be at the top of the agenda when the World Body begins its annual meeting on September 22nd.

Health officials in Central Africa are continuing their efforts to stop an Ebola outbreak in southern Congo.

The World Health Organization says it sent 400 vaccines to the affected area and plans on sending additional 1,500 doses from the capital of Kinshasa, but they say a lack of funding is severely limiting its response.

I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.

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