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. Police are continuing their search at this hour for a gunman who killed two people and wounded nine others at Brown University on Saturday. The mass shooting took place during final exams.
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley is urging people living near the campus to stay indoors while police continue their efforts to capture the shooter.
We have two priorities right now as a community. One, to bring the individual responsible to justice. And two, to pray for the full recovery of those affected. The Brown community's heart is breaking and Providence's heart is breaking along with it. We're a week and a half away from Christmas. And all of us are getting calls from concerned families, parents, employees.
Police have released a video showing the suspect, who was last seen leaving the school's engineering building. A shelter-in-place order is in effect for the campus as well as people living near the school. House Republicans are unveiling a health care policy package they say will reduce health costs.
But as NPR's Jude Joffe Block reports, Democrats are blasting the proposal for not extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits.
Yes. A Democratic bill to extend the tax credits for three years failed in the Senate, as did a Republican proposal.
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Chapter 2: What happened during the mass shooting at Brown University?
Members of Congress are running out of time to address health care costs before the holiday recess at the end of the week. Jude Jaffeblock, NPR News.
As fighting continues in Sudan, the United Nations says six Bangladeshi peacekeepers were killed and eight others injured following an attack on a UN base in the south of the country Saturday. Michael Koloke has more.
In a statement, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that the attack at a UN base in Kadugli, a city in Sudan's South Kordofan state, involved the use of drones. Guterres warned that attacks targeting UN peacekeepers... may constitute war crimes under international law.
Fighting between the paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, and the Sudanese Armed Forces has been going on for more than two years now, with the armed forces accusing the RSF of carrying out the attack, claims that the RSF has rejected.
Meanwhile, the government of Bangladesh has condemned the attack on the UN base and sent condolences to the families of the Bangladeshi peacekeepers who were killed. For NPR News, I'm Michael Kaluki in Nairobi.
President Trump says there will be serious retaliation after three Americans were killed and three others injured in an attack in Syria Saturday. Two of those killed were members of the Iowa National Guard and the third was a U.S. civilian. The Pentagon says it was an ambush by a lone gunman. The gunman was killed. You're listening to NPR News.
The Church of England has produced a short Christmas video. It's an effort to counter attempts by the far-right to turn that holiday into a celebration of Christian nationalism. Vicki Barker reports from London.
The promotional video for far-right leader Tommy Robinson's Christmas Carol event promises it will, quote, put the Christ back into Christmas. Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rallies have increasingly wed his anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant messages to the tropes of fervent evangelical Christian rhetoric, a new departure for British political discourse.
So this appears to be the Church of England's response.
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