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What recent events are impacting Hollywood and the film industry?
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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Hollywood is mourning the death of filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle. However, police have not yet confirmed the identities of two people found dead in the Reiner's Los Angeles home on Sunday afternoon. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is calling the deaths a devastating loss for the city and the country. The Los Angeles police are investigating the deaths as an apparent homicide. Police in Providence say the person they detained in connection with the fatal shooting at Brown University on Saturday is being released. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Nerona says the man is no longer a suspect.
Certainly there was some degree of evidence that pointed to this individual, but that evidence needed to be corroborated and confirmed. And over the last 24 hours, leading into just very, very recently, that evidence now points in a different direction.
Two students were killed and nine others injured when a man walked into a school building and opened fire during final exams. Police say the investigation is complex. At least 15 people were killed and dozens of others injured in a mass shooting Sunday at a Hanukkah celebration on a beach in Sydney, Australia. Police say the two gunmen were a father and his son. One of them was killed. As 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 loudly celebrate Hanukkah because that was such a horrible attack. That was a purely anti-Semitic attack.
Tamara Keith, NPR News, the White House.
The first winter storm of the season has hit the New York metropolitan area. Bruce Kahnweiser reports from New Jersey.
As the snow started falling, forecasters were predicting 2 to 3 inches across much of New Jersey. By mid-morning, a large swath of the state was buried under 6 inches of snow. Travel disruptions were relatively limited as the storm hit early Sunday. but more than 80 flights were canceled at the three New York City area airports. The snowstorm will clear out but will be followed by strong winds and a blast of Arctic air. Temperatures will struggle to break through the freezing point over the next two days. For NPR News, I'm Bruce Kahnweiser in Greenbrook, New Jersey.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he would consider dropping his country's bid to join NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees. But he again rejected U.S. proposals for Ukraine to give territory to Russia to end the war there. Zelensky held talks in Berlin on Sunday with U.S.
How are police investigations unfolding in connection with recent shootings?
officials. This is NPR News. A major protest took place in Rio de Janeiro Sunday. Tens of thousands of people were protesting legislation that would reduce the prison sentence of former President Jair Bolsonaro. He received a 27-year sentence after being found guilty of attempting a coup. The measure has been passed by the country's lower chamber and is now with the Senate. The protests reflect growing discontent with Congress and fears that Brazil's democracy is being undermined. President Trump recently announced a $12 billion plan to help farmers across the country. The Farmer Bridge Assistance Program is a one-time payment meant to help farmers make it to the next growing season. As the Gulf State's newsroom's Drew Hawkins reports, farmers have been hit hard this year.
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