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The online history of the Highland Park suspect reveals a fascination with violence

7:21am July 06, 2022

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Alex Newhouse of the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies about the shooting suspect's violent posts.

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Ohioans outraged by the shooting of a Black man, demand answers from officials

6:46am July 06, 2022

by Anna Huntsman

In Akron, Ohio, people are demanding accountability and answers from police and city officials after the deadly shooting of 25-year-old Jayland Walker. He was killed after a car and foot chase.

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A Georgia grand jury subpoenas top Trump allies, including Giuliani and Graham

6:42am July 06, 2022

The grand jury investigating allegations of 2020 election interference has issued subpoenas for testimony from several Trump insiders, including Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Lindsey Graham.

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News brief: Ill. shooting probe, Georgia subpoenas, U.K. government resignations

6:39am July 06, 2022

The Highland Park shooting suspect is charged with seven counts of first-degree murder. A Georgia grand jury subpoenas top Trump allies. Two key U.K. senior ministers quit Boris Johnson's government.

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Firefighter Rafael Soto battles the Electra Fire burning in the Rich Gulch community of Calaveras County, Calif., on Tuesday, July 5, 2022.

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New evacuations for communities near California forest fire

2:18am July 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

A wildfire that triggered expanded evacuation orders may have been sparked by fireworks or a barbecue on the Fourth of July in a region that's a top tourism destination.

WNBA basketball superstar Brittney Griner arrives to a hearing at the Khimki Court, outside Moscow on July 1, 2022.

President Biden receives Brittney Griner's letter from prison in Russia

11:23pm July 05, 2022

by Amina Kilpatrick

President Biden has read the letter WNBA player Brittney Griner wrote to him from prison in Russia. The basketball star has been detained there since February.

Vice President Kamala Harris hugs Highland Park, Ill., Mayor Nancy Rotering on Tuesday as she visits the site of a shooting Monday that killed seven people.

Harris calls for renewing the assault weapons ban after Highland Park mass shooting

9:06pm July 05, 2022

by NPR Washington Desk

"Congress needs to have the courage to act and renew the assault weapons ban," Harris told a teachers convention in Chicago before visiting the shooting scene at nearby Highland Park.

A Sotheby's New York employee demonstrates the size of a Gorgosaurus dinosaur skeleton on Tuesday in New York.

A 76 million-year-old dinosaur skeleton will be auctioned in New York City

8:43pm July 05, 2022

by The Associated Press

All of the other known Gorgosaurus skeletons are in museum collections, making this one the only specimen available for private ownership, Sotheby's said.

Dogs could help sniff out chronic wasting disease on a reservation in Montana

7:38pm July 05, 2022

by Aaron Bolton

In Montana, dogs are being trained to sniff out chronic wasting disease. The animals will be deployed on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to prevent the disease from being passed to humans.

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Crimo made rap music under the name Awake The Rapper. In one video, he wears a helmet and vest inside an empty classroom and scatters bullets across the floor.

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Highland Park suspect's online history reveals a fascination with violence

7:25pm July 05, 2022

by Becky Sullivan

The 21-year-old suspect apparently made music videos about shootings, and posted thousands of times to a message board dedicated to sharing graphic photos and videos of violence.