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Good afternoon and welcome to your afternoon news update from AP. Today, there has been a fatal school shooting in Minneapolis; President Donald Trump’s administration is taking management of Union Station away from Amtrak; and a look at why it is so hard to end the war in Gaza.

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A parent hugs her son during an active shooter situation at the Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, Minn. on Wednesday. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP)

A shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school kills 2 children, injures 17 people

A shooter opened fire with a rifle through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis and struck children celebrating Mass during the first week of school, killing two and wounding 17 people in an act of violence the police chief called "absolutely incomprehensible." Read more.

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Members of the Louisiana National Guard patrol at Union Station, Tuesday, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump extends control over Washington by taking management of Union Station away from Amtrak

President Donald Trump’s administration is taking management of Union Station away from Amtrak in the latest example of the federal government exerting its power over the nation’s capital. Read more.

UN official says 'all hope is gone' if Israeli offensive on famine-stricken Gaza City goes ahead

If Israel’s military goes ahead with a planned offensive in Gaza City, then "all hope is gone that we’re ever going to see the end to this," a United Nations official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Israel says the evacuation of Gaza’s most populated city is "inevitable," adding to international alarm for hundreds of thousands of people there as famine — documented and declared — threatens to spread after 22 months of war. Read more.

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Young men practice with training Kalashnikov assault rifles at a museum of Russian Special Military Operations in Ukraine in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Russia-Ukraine War: Russian forces break into another region of Ukraine with peace efforts stuck 

Updated  vaccine: FDA approves new Pfizer COVID shots but limits access for some kids and adults

Artificial intelligence: Study says AI chatbots need to fix suicide response, as family sues over ChatGPT role in boy’s death

Indigenous girls and women: Denmark and Greenland apologize for painful legacy of forced Inuit contraception

Thailand: A royal pardon frees a Thai woman serving a 43-year prison term for defaming the monarchy

Wisconsin: Missing kayaker who faked his own death is sentenced to 89 days in jail

Official languages: Paraguay is fighting to preserve Guaraní, a language of roots and soul

Q&A: James Cameron on two decades of making ‘Avatar’ and the future he sees for movies

WATCH: Beneath waters off Denmark's coast, archaeologists unearth ancient settlements lost to rising seas

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Revelers throw tomatoes at each other during the annual "Tomatina" tomato fight fiesta, in the village of Bunol near Valencia, Spain on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)

Tomatoes become projectiles in Spain’s ‘Tomatina’ food fight

Thousands of people from around the world seeking a uniquely messy thrill spent one wild hour flinging bushels of overripe tomatoes at each other during Spain’s "Tomatina" celebration Wednesday.