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News in Washington I'm sure Stephen's doctors in Washington d.c. Say House Majority Whip Steve is doing better but remains in critical condition after being shot as N.P.R.'s Don Gonyea reports investigators are learning more about Wednesday's attack on school and 3 others as they practice for a charity baseball game the guns used in the shooting are a 7.62 caliber rifle and a 9 millimeter handgun both weapons were owned by the man identified as the assailant James Hodgkinson of Bellville Illinois authorities say they've traced the recovered weapons history in. Found no evidence they were acquired is illegally each was purchased from a federally licensed dealer the f.b.i. Statement reiterated there was one shooter he died from wounds suffered when the police returned his fire investigators have also recovered a cell phone computer and camera from Hodgkinson vehicle Don Gonyea n.p.r. News Washington both Republicans and Democrats pay tribute to school East Thursday during the annual caress Congressional Baseball game in Washington Democrats won the charity event 11 to 2. In order town Pennsylvania judge is telling the jury in the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby to keep trying to reach a verdict after deliberating more than 30 hours over 4 days jurors told the judge Thursday they couldn't reach a decision deliberations resume on Friday cause for a spokesman Andrew Wyatt says he's not surprised by the indecision is there a lot of you know. You know to do this because he has been saving their time trying to stop due to you know these charges if he tried to bring about women's rights attorney Gloria Allred says a deadlock is not a vindication for Cosby and that the case isn't over all right this representing some of cause we saw her accusers White House officials say President Trump's revised policy on Cuba is aimed at halting the flow of u.s. Dollars to companies controlled by the island's military Trump is expected to disclose the details Friday in Miami an explosion outside a kindergarten in eastern China has killed at least 8 people and injured dozens more as N.P.R.'s Rob Schmitz reports investigators are calling it a criminal act the explosion occurred around 5 in the afternoon at the front gate of a kindergarten outside the city of Shu Joe in the coastal province of John Sue images and video taken in the aftermath of the explosion showed the lifeless bodies of children and adults strolling about in pools of blood their clothes burned child as officials seen one news agency has reported that local police are investigating the explosion as a criminal offense and that they have identified a suspect according to the report 2 people died on the spot in 6 more died of their injuries at hospital of the 65 injured 8 are in critical condition at a press conference on Friday morning Local authorities said the blast did not injure any students or teachers of the school Rob Schmitz n.p.r. News Shanghai You're listening to n.p.r. News. A fast moving wildfire in northern New Mexico is prompting the evacuation of as many as 200 people the blaze are up that early Thursday and quickly spread to about 600 acres in an area of the him as mountains west of Los Alamos blaze is burning far away from the Los Alamos National Laboratory but officials there say they're keeping tabs on it Nike says it's cutting 2 percent of its workforce or $1400.00 jobs a sneaker manufacturer says it's also eliminating a quarter of its you styles to focus on bestsellers Nike says it plans to sell more products directly to const customers online as part of a restructuring effort to cope with increasing competition. One of the most beloved songs of the 20th century has a new songwriting credit Yoko Ono's formal recognition as a co-writer of the song Imagine comes almost 50 years after her late husband John Lennon recorded it more from N.P.R.'s Neda Ulaby a richly the National Music Publishers Association was just going to honor a song that song pretty much every major list of the best. At an event in New York organizations president surprised the audience by announcing it now recognizes Yoko Ono's part in creating a magine with songs based on poetry she wrote Lennon himself said in interviews he should have shared credit with Ono and I was present at the ceremony in a wheelchair her son Sean Lennon said on social media she was in tears Meanwhile the Yoko Ono reissue project has been reading a string and releasing most of her avant garde albums net a living n.p.r. News and I'm she Stevens n.p.r. News in Washington support for n.p.r. 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