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What happened during the shooting at Brown University?
Authorities say two people have been killed and nine others are in critical but stable condition following a shooting at Brown University on Saturday. Police say the suspect remains at large. NPR's Lydia Kalitri has more.
Providence police say the shooting took place around 4 p.m. outside the Barris and Hawley building, which houses the School of Engineering and Physics Department. School officials say final exams were taking place at the time. Deputy Police Chief Timothy O'Hara says authorities are searching for a suspect described as, quote, a male dressed in black.
We're utilizing every resource possible to find this suspect.
A shelter-in-place order remains active for the university and surrounding areas. Lydia Kalitri, NPR News.
President Trump says the U.S. will retaliate after an ISIS militant shot and killed two American soldiers and one U.S. civilian in central Syria on Saturday. As NPR's Greg Myhre reports, this marks a rare attack on the U.S. forces that still remain in that country.
The Pentagon said a lone gunman with the Islamic State, or ISIS, carried out the shooting ambush near the ancient desert city of Palmyra. The gunman killed the two soldiers, as well as a U.S. civilian interpreter, and also wounded three U.S. troops. The Americans were on a joint mission with Syrian forces and the Syrians killed the ISIS gunmen, the Pentagon said. U.S. forces were sent to Syria a decade ago to combat ISIS. The Americans defeated the group, but remnants still carry out periodic attacks. U.S. forces have remained in Syria to guard against a resurgence of ISIS. Greg Myhre, NPR News, Washington.
The Skagit River north of Seattle has crested this weekend at a record high level. Hundreds of people in western Washington who did not evacuate in time had to be rescued from their homes, sometimes from rooftops and even from their cars. Scott Greenstone from member station KUOW reports the thousands of people who did evacuate may not be able to return to their homes for several days.
In Burlington, just about an hour north of Seattle... The water levels have begun to recede and some people are returning to their homes assessing damage. Jocelyn Alm's home was still too submerged to get in, so a friend waited in to look in the windows and told her,
He goes, all your couches are floating. All your stuff is just floating. He goes, your bananas are floating. And I said, oh, well, God, if we lost our bananas, we lost everything. The only thing we had in this back bedroom there was pictures that we had forever.
That's her husband, Kenneth. Officials are saying it's still a little early to tell the extent of the damage statewide, especially with more rain in the forecast Sunday. For NPR News, I'm Scott Greenstone in Burlington.
And you're listening to NPR News. Israel says its military has killed a Hamas leader who was one of the architects for the October 2023 attack that led to the war with Hamas. Officials say Ra'id Saad was in a civilian vehicle that was destroyed near Gaza City, and they say he was working to rebuild Hamas. The attack killed four people and wounded three others, according to officials in Gaza. Israeli airstrikes and shootings in Gaza have killed more than 380 Palestinians since the latest ceasefire took hold. The former Soviet Republic of Belarus has released more than 120 political prisoners under a deal brokered by the Trump administration. NPR's Charles Mainz has our reports.
The prisoners were freed in exchange for the U.S. agreeing to lift sanctions on trade in Belarusian potash. a key export for Belarus, and it means long-sought freedom for many of the most high-profile critics of the regime of Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko. Among them, Nobel Peace Laureate Ales Belyatsky, one-time presidential candidate Viktor Babaryko, and Maria Kolesnikova, who led a wave of pro-democracy protests in 2020 before a violent government crackdown.
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