Indianapolis Shooting; Scientists Develop New Human-Monkey Embryos; Remembering Selena At 50

Plus, mobile home owners are being evicted over small debts during the pandemic. by Korva Coleman and Jill Hudson First Up [A shooter opened fired at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis late Thursday night.]( Seth Perlman/AP A man opened fire inside a FedEx warehouse facility late Thursday night in Indianapolis, killing at least eight people and injuring several others. [No motive is known](. Authorities in Chicago on Thursday released body cam footage of the fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo. The highly-anticipated video was [released to the public]( more than two weeks after police said the seventh grader was armed at the time of the shooting. Testimony has ended in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, accused in the killing of George Floyd. Chauvin [chose not to testify]( in his own defense. [An ash plume rises over La Soufriere on St. Vincent on April 13. The volcano is expected to continue erupting and has caused a humanitarian crisis.]( Orvil Samuel/AP There’s a growing humanitarian crisis on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent, where the La Soufrière volcano has been erupting since last week. [Between 16,000 and 20,000 people]( have been evacuated from the area around the volcano. Some evacuees are fleeing the island entirely. The former Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer charged in the killing of Daunte Wright made her first appearance in court Thursday. Kim Potter was later [released on a $100,000 bond](. The coronavirus is spreading unchecked in Brazil, which has recorded more than 3,000 COVID-19 deaths a day. Relief groups say the country’s health care system [has almost collapsed]( as doctors are running out of medication to treat ill patients. --------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter continues after sponsor message --------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Listens [Anything for Selena weaves the life of the late Tejano singer together with that of the podcast's host, Maria Garcia.]( Illustration by Iliana Galvez/WBUR This week marks what would have been the 50th birthday of Selena, who died in 1995. Though she's been gone for over a quarter century, she seems more popular than ever. Why is it that 26 years after her death at age 23, Selena is experiencing such a remarkable revival? [Click to hear a review]( of the podcast Anything for Selena or [read a remembrance]( of the singer's life and legacy. Mobile home-owners are twice as likely during the pandemic to be behind on housing payments. And some are losing the homes they own over small amounts of rent they owe for the land the home sits on. [Listen to the story here]( or [read it](. [Using fluorescent antibody-based stains and advanced microscopy, researchers are able to visualize cells of different species origins in an early stage chimeric embryo. The red color indicates the cells of human origin.]( Weizhi Ji/Kunming University of Science and Technology For the first time, an international team of scientists has put human cells into monkey embryos in hopes of finding new ways to produce organs for transplantation. But some ethicists still worry about how such research could go wrong. [Listen here]( or [read the story](. --------------------------------------------------------------- Before You Go [A portrait of the Brooklyn Dodgers' infielder Jackie Robinson in uniform circa 1945.]( Hulton Archive/Getty Images - On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. - Some fans would like to see Game of Thrones get a different ending after HBO began plugging the show's 10th anniversary on Twitter. ([CNET]( - After weeks of speculation and denials, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez officially called it quits this week. ([The New York Times]( - Grey's Anatomy is now in its 17th season. The primetime scripted show [changed not only the way we watch TV]( but the way stories are told and shows are sold. - Disneyland fans eager to return to the park when it reopens on April 30 overwhelmed the ticket website on Thursday. ([Yahoo! News]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Stream your local NPR station. Visit NPR.org to find your local station stream. --------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoying this newsletter? Forward to a friend! They can [sign up here](. Looking for more great content? [Check out all of our newsletter offerings]( — including Music, Politics, Health and more! You received this message because you're subscribed to Daily News emails. This email was sent by National Public Radio, Inc., 1111 North Capitol Street NE, Washington, DC 20002 [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Policy]( [NPR logo]