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What details are known about the Manhattan mass shooting and the suspect?
Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. Authorities in New York are seeking a motive for a mass shooting that's left five people dead and one person injured in Midtown Manhattan. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch says surveillance footage shows a man getting out of a double parked vehicle. and entering an office high rise carrying a rifle. Час the gunman is then seen shooting a police officer and a woman in the lobby.
Goes up to the thirty third floor. which is rude in management, and begins to walk the floor, firing rounds as he travelled. One person was struck and killed on that floor. He then proceeds down a hallway and shoots himself in the chest.
How did President Trump’s Scotland visit spark protests and what was the public reaction?
Tish identified the suspect as twenty seven year old Shane Tomora of Las Vegas. She says that Tomora is believed to have acted alone. President Trump is wrapping up his Scotland trip after announcing a trade deal with the European Union. And peers. Fatima Akakasab reports the demonstrators turned out in force.
Protesters at this rally outside the US Consulate in Edinburgh waved Palestinian flags and held signs that read Scotland is already great. In Aberdeen, near the president's new golf course, a van plastered with a big photo of the president with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein circulated the city. Resident Bev Luke says Trump is not welcome.
It's a hateful man.
What is the federal judge’s ruling on the Trump administration’s attempt to defund Planned Parenthood?
People seem to be coming together a bit more against this.
A recent poll found seventy-one percent of people in Scotland have an unfavourable view of Trump, higher than across the rest of the UK. Fatimal al-Kassab, NPR News Aberdeen.
A federal judge is blocking the Trump administration from defunding planned parenthood. NPR's Katie Abriddle reports that the ruling may help protect essential health services in some communities.
The Trump administration was attempting to stop Medicaid reimbursements to planned parenthood clinics across the country. It is part of the administration's recently passed policy bill. Specifically, it mandated that if clinics provided abortion care, they could not receive Medicaid. But it is already illegal to use federal funds to pay for abortions.
Why is former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper running for the U.S. Senate seat?
Essentially, the change in law would have prevented clinics from providing basic health care, like cancer screenings and access to contraception. The judge on Monday wrote in her decision that the law unfairly targeted Planned Parenthood and called it, quote, legislative punishment. Katie Reddle, NPR News.
Former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper says he will seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate seat. Cooper is seeking The vacancy that's been created by retiring GOP Senator Tom Tillis. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Watley is expected to formally seek the GOP nomination for Tillis' seat.
What are the latest developments in the Nevada casino shooting investigation?
This is NPR. Authorities in Nevada are seeking a motive for deadly shooting outside of a casino in Reno. A gunman killed at least three people and injured three others before police fatally shot him. No word on the suspect's identity or a possible motive for the attack. A suspect in Saturday's mass stabbing at a northern Michigan Walmart is facing terrorism charges. Forty two year old Bradford Gilly is being held on eleven counts of assault with intent to murder. Gilly was the subject of a mental health warrant issued on Friday. He pleaded not guilty at a hearing on Monday. For a second time this month, Jewish settlers have attacked a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank.
How is settler violence affecting the West Bank town of Taibei and what is the international response?
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee recently visited that town to support a Palestinian church. NPR's Emily Fang has more.
The West Bank town of Taibei is known for its beer brewery of the same name and a more than 1,500-year-old church that was partially burned by Jewish settlers. Huckabee criticized that act as, quote, unacceptable. Then this week, settlers set fire to two vehicles in Taipei, hurled stones at homes there, and then graffitied epithets on at least one home. Bashar Fawadle, a parish priest in Taipei, said the Israeli military raided the town soon after, but did not arrest any of the settlers.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What details are known about the Manhattan mass shooting and the suspect?
0:02–0:44
2
How did President Trump’s Scotland visit spark protests and what was the public reaction?
0:44–1:34
3
What is the federal judge’s ruling on the Trump administration’s attempt to defund Planned Parenthood?
1:34–2:19
4
Why is former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper running for the U.S. Senate seat?
2:19–2:56
5
What are the latest developments in the Nevada casino shooting investigation?
2:56–3:41
6
How is settler violence affecting the West Bank town of Taibei and what is the international response?
3:41–4:39