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In the news today: Hundreds honor 2 children killed and 17 people wounded at a Minneapolis Catholic school; the director of the top public health agency in the United States has been fired; and Nvidia issued its earnings report Wednesday, a key barometer of a two-year-old AI boom. Also, a mall in New Jersey has been sued for selling clothes on a Sunday, a violation of centuries-old “blue laws.”

Parents comfort their children after a shooting at Annunciation Church on Wednesday in Minneapolis. (Alex Kormann/Star Tribune via AP)

U.S. NEWS

Hundreds honor 2 children killed and 17 people wounded in shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school

Just hours after a shooter opened fire through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis, killing two children and wounding 17 people, hundreds crowded inside a nearby school’s gym, clutching one another and wiping away tears during a vigil alongside Gov. Tim Walz and clergy members. Read more.

What to know:

• FBI Director Kash Patel said on X that the shooting is being investigated as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime targeting Catholics.
  
  

• Armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol, the 23-year-old suspect shot dozens of rounds Wednesday morning toward the children sitting in the pews during Mass at the Annunciation Catholic School, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said at news conferences. The shooter then died by suicide, he said.
  
  

• Investigators were examining a social media post that appeared to show the shooter at the scene. On a YouTube channel, the alleged shooter released at least two videos. In one, the alleged shooter shows a cache of weapons and ammunition, some with such phrases as “kill Donald Trump” and “Where is your God?” written on them.

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HEALTH

CDC director Susan Monarez is fired and other agency leaders resign

The director of the nation’s top public health agency has been fired after less than one month in the job, and several top agency leaders have resigned. Read more.

Why this matters:

• Susan Monarez isn’t “aligned with” President Donald Trump’s agenda and refused to resign, so the White House terminated her, spokesman Kush Desai said Wednesday night.
  
  

• “This is not about one official. It is about the systematic dismantling of public health institutions, the silencing of experts, and the dangerous politicization of science. The attack on Dr. Monarez is a warning to every American: our evidence-based systems are being undermined from within,” her lawyers Mark Zaid and Abbe David Lowell wrote in a statement.
  
  

• Her departure coincided with the resignations this week of at least four top CDC officials.

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• Researchers send letter to FDA on abortion pill safety

   

• FACT FOCUS: Rural hospitals are expected to lose money from Trump’s bill, despite RFK Jr.'s promise

   

• Rwanda says 7 deportees arrived from the US in August under agreement with Washington

   

• Kilmar Abrego Garcia requests asylum in the US, hoping to prevent his deportation to Uganda

   

• Emboldened Democrats are starting to push back on Trump’s immigration plans

   

• Top Florida official says ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ will likely be empty within days, email shows

   

• A deadly Florida truck crash has fueled an immigration fight. Here’s what to know

   

• In DC, a heated standoff between police, neighbors shows unease amid Trump’s law enforcement surge

   

• WATCH: DC residents yell at federal, local officers during arrest near school drop off

   

• Prosecutors fail to indict sandwich thrower in Trump’s Washington public safety operation

   

• Guard not needed in Chicago, Pritzker tells AP during tour of city to counter Trump’s crime claims

   

• LA jury awards more than $2 million to protester shot in face with nonlethal projectile in 2020

   

• Trump foes like Fed Governor Lisa Cook find themselves targeted by top housing regulator

   

• Trump’s administration again appeals to the Supreme Court over his foreign aid funding freeze

   

• Mexico says it’s suspending postal shipments to the US over latest tariff confusion

   

• Democrats eye new presidential primary calendar in 2028

   

• Pro-DEI organizers fired up to maintain Target boycott as promises go unfulfilled

   

• Former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez pleads guilty to campaign finance violation

   

• NTSB says B-52 bomber nearly hit two different planes in North Dakota last month

BUSINESS

Nvidia’s AI chip sales surged again in latest quarter, but worries about a tech bubble persist

Nvidia’s sales of its artificial intelligence chipsets remained a hot commodity during the company’s latest quarter, but the demand wasn’t quite feverish enough to ease recent worries that the AI craze may be fading. Read more.

Why this matters:

• The results announced Wednesday were hotly anticipated because Nvidia has emerged as key barometer of a two-year-old AI boom that has been propelling the stock market to new heights. The Silicon Valley chipmaker also became the first publicly traded company to achieve a $4 trillion market value.
  
  

• In recent weeks, though, research reports and comments by prominent tech executives have raised investor fears that the AI mania has been overblown. And now Nvidia’s latest numbers may feed those perceptions because the sales of the company’s processors aren’t growing as robustly as they once were.

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