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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. A teenage student opened fire this morning at a small Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin, killing a fellow student and a teacher, then turned the gun on themselves. Six people were taken to area hospitals. Police say two are in critical condition. Chuck Hornbach of member station WUWM has more.
The shooting took place at Abundant Life Christian School, a kindergarten through 12th grade school that serves students from about 200 families. Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes says he believes the shooter was a teenage student who was armed with a handgun. Barnes says he doesn't know the shooter's motive, but says his detectives are working on the case.
So that we can further prevent these things from happening, not only in this community, but in other communities around our country.
Barnes says the suspect was dead when police entered the school in response to a 911 call from inside the building. For NPR News, I'm Chuck Quirmbach in Milwaukee.
In a wide-ranging interview from his Florida home, President-elect Donald Trump touched on a number of topics, including downplaying concerns his administration would revoke the polio vaccine.
I don't like mandates. I'm not a big mandate person. So, you know, I was against mandates. Mostly Democrat governors did the mandates, and they did a very poor thing. You know, in retrospect, they made a big mistake.
This after his pick to head Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 's personal attorney, reportedly filed suit against the FDA to get that vaccine revoked. That drew condemnation from Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, a polio survivor. McConnell, who says the vaccine has saved millions of lives and held out the promise of eradicating a terrible disease,
called efforts to revoke the vaccine dangerous. Kennedy, who ran for president as an independent this year, pressing his anti-vaccine stance, was on Capitol Hill today to meet with senators, where he's expected to face questions on his long history of anti-vaccine rhetoric, along with his vision for reshaping the health care industry.
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