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His sister told the AP her brother had so many hardships in his life, and after getting into Brown, he worked hard to follow through on his promise to become a neurosurgeon.

Cook, meanwhile, was vice president of Brown's College Republicans and was described as a bright light by her church pastor in Mountain Brook, Alabama, where she was from.

Her fellow college Republicans said that she was bold, brave, and had a kind heart.

They said they were devastated by her passing.

Meanwhile, authorities are still looking for a suspect in the shooting and have offered a $50,000 reward.

And finally, in Sydney, as mourners gathered to pay tribute to the victims at Sunday's Hanukkah festival shooting, one man who is being credited with saving lives insisted that he is not a hero.

The publication The Australian reports on Ahmed Alamed.

He's the man seen on video appearing to disarm one of the shooters from behind.

A man who was his immigration lawyer and visited him in the hospital said that Ahmed had no regrets and that he would do it all again if he had to.

A GoFundMe page set up for him has reportedly raised over a million dollars as he receives treatment in the hospital.

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Good morning. It's Thursday, April 17th. I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shamit Tabassu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, how a group of Democratic governors are navigating Trump's second term, the legal hurdles facing a U.S. hostage freed from Russia, and why Paris is breathing easier these days. But first, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Good morning. It's Thursday, April 17th. I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shamit Tabassu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, how a group of Democratic governors are navigating Trump's second term, the legal hurdles facing a U.S. hostage freed from Russia, and why Paris is breathing easier these days. But first, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Good morning. It's Thursday, April 17th. I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shamit Tabassu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, how a group of Democratic governors are navigating Trump's second term, the legal hurdles facing a U.S. hostage freed from Russia, and why Paris is breathing easier these days. But first, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

is making research into autism one of his major initiatives. But he's also making proclamations about the disorder that scientists who study autism say is in direct contradiction to the research.