A 15-year-old feminine scholar is known as because the suspect in a Wisconsin college capturing that left three useless. Authorities attempt to tamp down on worries over drone sightings. And a daughter speaks out after studying her father’s stays had been despatched for medical analysis earlier than she even knew he was useless.
Here’s what to know in the present day.
Teacher and teenage scholar killed in Wisconsin college capturing
A 15-year-old feminine was recognized as shooter of a instructor and one in every of her fellow college students at Abundant Life Christian School in Wisconsin. The teenager can also be useless. Six folks had been injured, together with two college students in essential situation with “life-threatening accidents,” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes stated yesterday night.
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The capturing occurred throughout examine corridor in a classroom on the campus east of downtown Madison, police stated. A second grade scholar known as 911 at 10:57 a.m. to report the capturing, Barnes stated. Just three miles away, a gaggle of officers had been gathered for a particular emergency coaching, Banes stated — “so what started as a coaching day grew to become an precise factor.”
Madison police recognized the shooter as Natalie Rupnow, who glided by the title Samantha. Investigators are nonetheless working to find out a motive within the capturing, and it’s not clear whether or not the instructor and scholar who had been killed had been targets. Police searched the shooter’s house, and so they’re additionally trying right into a doc on-line that was reportedly concerning the capturing.
Here’s what else we all know.
Explosion kills Russian basic in Moscow
Lt. General Igor Kirillov, the top of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Forces, was killed in an explosion early this morning in Moscow, Russian officers stated.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) stated it was behind the detonation of an explosive gadget planted in a scooter subsequent to the doorway of an residence constructing in Moscow, based on a Ukrainian supply briefed on the matter who requested for anonymity as a result of they don’t seem to be licensed to talk publicly about delicate operations.
Kirillov had been charged in absentia by a Ukrainian courtroom a day earlier over using banned chemical weapons throughout Russia’s invasion of the nation, based on The Associated Press. Here’s what else we all know.
Feds attempt to tamp down worries about drone sightings
Federal authorities sought to quell considerations about drone sightings in New Jersey and different states, as President-elect Donald Trump spoke out and lawmakers proposed the deployment of drone-tracking units. Meanwhile, conspiracy theories are spreading on-line.
In a joint assertion launched final evening, the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Defense Department stated the quite a few drone sightings don’t pose “a nationwide safety or public security threat,” echoing an analogous message launched final week. Commercial, hobbyist and legislation enforcement drones, in addition to different plane and stars, had been among the many objects recognized from greater than 5,000 suggestions authorities acquired in latest weeks. About 100 suggestions required additional assessment, the companies stated. Read extra about federal authorities’ response to the drones.
Trump, talking at his first press convention since profitable the 2024 election, criticized the Biden administration for not sharing extra data. “Something unusual is occurring,” he stated, “For some cause, they don’t need to inform folks.” Trump additionally stated he canceled a weekend journey to his New Jersey golf membership after saying some drone sightings had been “very near Bedminster.” Read extra about his feedback.
Over the weekend, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York stated the Homeland Security Department ought to ship particular drone-detection expertise to New York and New Jersey. However, the radars, from Netherlands-based Robin Radar Systems, “can’t inform you who’s flying it [or] what nation it’s from,” stated the corporate’s basic supervisor, Kristian Brost. Here’s what to know concerning the drone-detecting expertise.
A veteran’s corpse was despatched throughout state strains — earlier than his household knew he was useless
Last yr, Karen Wandel acquired an alarming message: Her father, Libero Marinelli Jr., had died greater than 5 months earlier in a South Carolina hospital and, when no household claimed his physique, the hospital despatched it for use for medical analysis.
Wandel hadn’t spoken to her father in years, however she wasn’t onerous to search out. Neither had been Marinelli’s brother or sister, who had saved in contact on birthdays and holidays. But all of them discovered of his demise solely after Marinelli’s brother despatched him a Christmas card that was returned unopened.
Wandel stays surprised by the remedy of her father, who, as a former Army service member, was entitled to be buried in a veterans’ cemetery however whose corpse as a substitute was first despatched to a physique dealer in one other state.
Supplying unclaimed our bodies for medical analysis is broadly thought of unethical, and most main medical faculties — and some states — have halted the follow. And it but continues.
Read the complete story right here.
Politics in Brief
Dismissal denied: A New York choose denied Trump’s bid to vacate the responsible verdict in his hush cash trial on presidential immunity grounds.
RFK Jr. in D.C.: Robert F. Kennedy, Trump’s decide for well being and human providers secretary, will possible face robust questions on his anti-vaccine rhetoric and his plans to reshape the well being care trade as he meets with dozens of Republican senators this week. A key determine to observe in his battle for affirmation: Mitch McConnell.
Impending ban: TikTok has requested the Supreme Court to dam a legislation that might ban the social media app within the U.S. If justices grant TikTok’s utility, they are going to then should make a closing resolution on whether or not the legislation is constitutional. If justices reject the applying, the legislation would go into impact on Jan. 19 as deliberate.
Committee management: A robust panel of congressional Democrats really helpful Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for the highest Democratic publish on the House Oversight Committee. Here’s how different votes performed out for different management spots.
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- A lady who was accused of being a stowaway on a New York-to-Paris flight final month has been arrested whereas attempting to cross the Canadian border, authorities stated yesterday.
- Did you realize the bald eagle isn’t the nationwide fowl of the United States? Well, not but not less than — however one man’s mission to repair that omission is lastly paying off.
- Hannah Kobayashi stated she is solely now studying of the widespread consideration she acquired after her household reported her lacking.
- Jay-Z’s lawyer stated he expects the hip-hop mogul to quickly be “cleared” from a lawsuit that accuses him and rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping a minor in 2000.
- Several thousand folks are feared useless after Cyclone Chido tore via Mayotte, a French territory round 500 miles off southeast Africa.
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