Search For Answers After Minnesota Shooting And Cdc Director Fired: Morning Rundown

A shooting astatine a Minneapolis Catholic school. The CDC head fired by nan Trump management aft she refuses to resign. Iowa Democrats are riding precocious disconnected a drawstring of wins. And a monolithic onslaught connected Ukraine's superior kills astatine slightest 15.

Here's what to cognize today.

School shooting brings tragedy, questions and request for action

The shooting astatine a Catholic religion successful Minneapolis that killed 2 children and wounded 17 group has near a organization shaken and authorities searching for answers connected why nan onslaught occurred.

The kids who died were 8 and 10. Among nan wounded were 14 different kids and 3 big parishioners. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said they are expected to survive.

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O'Hara said conscionable earlier 8:30 a.m. 23-year-old Robin Westman approached nan broadside of nan religion equipped pinch a rifle, shotgun and pistol. Westman changeable dozens of rounds done nan broadside windows of nan Annunciation Catholic School's church, aiming astatine children who were attending Mass. The shooter past died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, O'Hara said.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called nan onslaught a calamity and demanded that governmental leaders return action successful nan aftermath of different wide schoolhouse shooting.

"It's connected nationalist servants and leaders to not conscionable person words but besides person actions that are attached to those words," Frey told NBC News' Tom Llamas.

FBI Director Kash Patel said nan shooter was "a male" calved nether a different first name. Westman's sanction alteration to Robin was granted successful 2020 erstwhile she was 17.

"Anybody who is utilizing this ... arsenic an opportunity to villainize our trans community, aliases immoderate different organization retired there, has mislaid their consciousness of communal humanity," Frey said.

Westman posted videos online pinch writings that reference suicide, "extremely convulsive thoughts and ideas," and an apology to her family, according to rule enforcement officials briefed connected nan matter.

Authorities are moving to find a motive. Police were alert of a "manifesto" that nan fishy had timed to beryllium released connected YouTube that has since been taken down.

Read nan latest updates here.

More connected nan Minneapolis Catholic schoolhouse attack:

• Authorities are still trying to study much astir nan shooter starring up to nan attack. Here’s what we know.

Major shake-up astatine CDC highlights tumultuous clip for nan agency

First came an X station from nan Department of Health and Human Services saying Susan Monarez was nary longer nan head for nan Center for Disease Control and Prevention which led to nan resignation of astatine slightest 4 apical officials successful nan agency.

Then Monarez's lawyers said she was not resigning. The Trump management proceeded to occurrence Monarez soon aft her refusal.

In a connection aft nan HHS X post, Monarez's lawyers claimed nan head "refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and occurrence dedicated wellness experts," and for that she was being "targeted."

The White House responded by formally terminating Monarez, stating she was "not aligned pinch nan President’s schedule of Making America Healthy Again."

Read nan afloat communicative here.

More authorities news:

• The House Freedom Caucus faces an existential moment pinch immoderate of its astir salient members eyeing nan exits for caller jobs successful nan 2026 election.

• At slightest 21 FEMA labor person been put connected administrative time off aft they signed an unfastened letter criticizing nan Trump administration.

• Sen. Susan Collins was heckled and drowned retired astatine times by demonstrators astatine a ribbon-cutting ceremonial successful Maine.

Are Democrats making gains successful Iowa? Depends connected who you ask.

A drawstring of convincing victories successful typical legislative elections has near immoderate twelvemonth hopeful that nan Democratic statement could flip immoderate awesome Republican-held offices successful adjacent year's midterm elections.

The streak includes a triumph that flipped a Republican seat, breaking nan GOP supermajority successful nan Iowa Senate.

Optimistic Democrats person shown excitement astatine nan prospects successful adjacent year’s races for governor, U.S. Senate and 2 House races.

But Iowa Republicans aren’t buying into it. Citing debased turnout successful off-year, down-ballot typical elections, Republicans are pointing to Iowa's long, reddish voting history to termination nan bluish buzz.

Read nan afloat communicative here.

Massive Russian onslaught connected Ukraine’s superior kills astatine slightest 15

Russia unleashed a monolithic overnight onslaught connected nan Ukrainian superior that killed astatine slightest 15 people, including 4 children, and injured 38, section officials said early Thursday.

The mixed strikes were nan astir important to deed Kyiv since President Donald Trump intensified his push for an extremity to nan Kremlin’s war, an effort that has stalled successful nan past week. A full of 629 drones and missiles were fired astatine nan state overnight, Ukraine’s aerial unit said, 1 of nan largest of nan war.

The overnight attacks show intelligibly that Russia has chosen “ballistics complete nan negotiating table,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said successful a station connected X.

Zelenskyy reiterated his telephone for “new reliable sanctions” against Russia, hoping nan U.S. mightiness target Putin’s system to unit him to nan table. “All deadlines person already been missed; dozens of opportunities for diplomacy person been spoiled,” he said connected X.

Read nan afloat communicative here.

Read All About It

• A precocious schoolhouse dean was charged pinch activity crimes against children. Parents opportunity schoolhouse failures enabled nan alleged behavior.

• Florida cities race to prevention rainbow crosswalks arsenic nan state's deadline to region them aliases consequence losing millions of dollars successful backing looms.

• Israel is facing much unit arsenic international disapproval grows aft strikes connected a infirmary killed 22 people, including journalists and medics.

• 'Love Island USA' Season 7 winners Amaya Espinal and Bryan Arenales officially split 2 days aft nan show's reunion.

Staff Pick: MAHA loves supplements. Does Washington?

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy takes truthful galore vitamins that he “couldn’t moreover retrieve them all.” In Washington, Kennedy has surrounded himself pinch different salient fans of dietary supplements, who’ve promoted everything from weight-loss pills to capsules of desiccated organ meat.

But while supplements are a cornerstone of nan Make America Healthy Again activity that helped propel Kennedy to power, the manufacture hasn’t seen sweeping changes since he took agency — to nan vexation and disappointment of some. Our communicative takes a adjacent look astatine America’s emotion matter pinch supplements — and why that hasn’t meant large gains for supplement makers successful Washington, astatine slightest conscionable yet. — Suzy Khimm, national reporter

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