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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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On the web at theschmidt.org. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Four people were killed Saturday night and 10 others wounded when gunfire broke out at a family gathering in Stockton, California. San Joaquin County Sheriff's Spokesperson Heather Brandt says detectives are still trying to identify a suspect and a motive for the shooting.
The victims have been transported to local hospitals throughout the area. This is a very active and ongoing investigation. Information remains very limited at this time. Early indications suggest that this may be a targeted incident.
Brent says some children are among the victims. Northwestern University has agreed to pay tens of millions of dollars to the federal government. It's an agreement that restores hundreds of millions in research funding withheld by the Trump administration. The initial loss of that money contributed to the resignation of the school's president in September. NPR's Alyssa Nadworny reports.
Part of the deal would require Northwestern University, an elite school outside Chicago, to pay the government $75 million over the next three years. In exchange, the government will unfreeze $790 million in research funding that was canceled last spring over accusations of racial discrimination and anti-Semitism.
The agreement allows the college to retain full academic freedom and says the Trump administration will end all open investigations into the school. This deal follows similar deals the Trump administration has made with Cornell University, Brown University, and Columbia University.
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Chapter 2: What happened during the Stockton shooting incident?
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Officials in Indonesia say the death toll from heavy rains and flooding driven in part by a tropical storm has now topped 300, and they're warning that number is likely to rise even more. Michael Sullivan has more from neighboring Thailand.
Rescue workers are still trying to reach some of the hardest hit areas on the island of Sumatra, with damaged roads, bridges, and downed communications lines hindering those efforts, as is a lack of heavy equipment. Relief aircraft have started to deliver aid to some of the worst-hit areas.
The governor of northern Sumatra's Aceh province, devastated by the 2004 tsunami that leveled many cities and towns, has declared a state of emergency. And the head of the National Disaster Management Agency is warning he believes many more bodies have yet to be reached.
Heavy rainfall caused by tropical storms has struck much of Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand, in the past few weeks. For NPR News, I'm Michael Sullivan in Chiang Rai.
Officials at a hospital in Gaza say Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian children in the southern part of the territory this weekend. That news comes as the Gaza Health Ministry says the number of Palestinian deaths since the war began in October of 2023 has reached more than 70,000. Israeli forces are continuing to carry out raids in the region despite the truce.
They say they're responding to violations of the deal. This is NPR. A Delta jet slid off a runway in Des Moines, Iowa Saturday night. Officials say there were no injuries in the incident. A major weather system, meanwhile, is dropping snow on parts of Iowa and across the Midwest and the Great Lakes. Northern Iowa has received more than eight inches of powder.
Tony and Oscar award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard has died. He was 88 years old. In a career that lasted more than seven decades, Stoppard wrote nearly three dozen plays. Jeff London has this remembrance.
Born Thomas Straussler in what was then Czechoslovakia, his family fled the Nazis during World War II. His father was killed, his mother remarried a man named Stoppard, and the family settled in England, the playwright told NPR in 2022. I'd been turned into a little English boy. I was very happy being a little English boy. And wrote dense, intellectual, linguistically complex plays.
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According to Adobe Analytics, which tracks online shopping, American consumers spent $111.8 billion, which is a 9.1% jump over last year. Another $6.4 billion was spent online on Thanksgiving Day. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.