What happened during the mass shooting at the Hanukkah celebration in Sydney?
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Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Herbst. At least 15 people are dead, dozens injured, in a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration on a beach in Sydney, Australia. Police say there were two gunmen, a father and his son, and one of them was killed. NPR's Tamara Keith reports President Trump praised a man who disarmed one of the gunmen.
President Trump said the attack in Australia on Jewish families celebrating the first night of Hanukkah was terrible. And that was an anti-Semitic attack, obviously. And I just want to pay my respects to everybody. Trump said the man who was seen on video grabbing a gun from one of the shooters at great risk to himself was a very, very brave person. Trump said he saved a lot of lives.
The president was speaking at a holiday reception at the White House and offered an addendum to his usual Merry Christmas. Today we can very say loudly we celebrate Hanukkah because that was such a horrible attack. That was a purely anti-Semitic attack.
Tamara Keith, NPR News, the White House. The investigation into the motive of the deadly attack on Brown University in Rhode Island yesterday that left at least two people dead and nine injured continues. Police say they have a person of interest in custody, a man in his 20s, identified by sources as Benjamin Erickson.
Paul C. Kelly, campus of member station Ocean State Media, visited the campus and spoke to one student.
The atmosphere there today was quiet and somber during the snowy day. Students I spoke with there were visibly distraught and shaken. A Brown University med student, Anna Nguyen, said he was in the middle of exams when the lockdown order came in.
Unfortunately, this is like a second school shooting that I've been to. My last one was my undergrad. And I feel like something this unimaginable is happening way too often. But, you know, praying for everyone out there. And then hopefully there will be action in the future.
Providence's Mayor Brett Smiley says the shooting shook the city and the state to its core. The government is set to release the latest jobs data as well as the latest consumer inflation report this week. And Perez Rafael Nam reports both were delayed by the government shutdown.
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