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Monkeys lived in South Carolina woods for two months and were lured out with peanut butter and jelly sandwichesAuthorities in South Carolina say that the last four of 43 escaped monkeys were recaptured after two months of living in the woods, weathering a rare snowstorm and being tempted back into captivity by peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.The rhesus macaque monkeys, all females, made a break for it after police say an employee did not fully lock their enclosure at Alpha Genesis, a facility that breeds them for medical research - known to locals as the monkey farm". Continue reading...

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With Trump promising the US will be crypto capital of the planet', experts say the industry's poised for laxer oversightWith Donald Trump tapping top regulators with cryptocurrency ties and promising to make the US the crypto capital of the planet", the controversial and scandal-plagued industry is poised for laxer oversight and faster growth, which ethics watchdogs and ex-prosecutors fear could pose dangers for investors and spur potential criminal abuses.The president's pro-crypto stances have come as he wooed crypto companies to ratchet up their campaign contributions to help him win the White House. Although in 2021 Trump called Bitcoin a scam", he also announced last fall that he and his sons were helping launch a new crypto business, dubbed World Liberty Financial, they can profit from. Continue reading...

Revealed: fossil fuel billionaire's Americans for Prosperity vows herculean undertaking' to renew and deepen tax cutsAmericans for Prosperity (AFP), the flagship political arm of the rightwing network formed by the fossil fuels billionaire Charles Koch and his late brother David, is launching a multimillion-dollar campaign backing Donald Trump's plans to extend tax cuts and roll back federal regulations.A private fundraising letter from AFP to its secretive list of donors, seen by the Guardian, outlines the organization's strategy for the first six months of the new Trump administration. Continue reading...

Families start returning home after first major crisis of ceasefire overcomeGood morning.Palestinians displaced from their homes in northern Gaza began to return to the region early on Monday, the territory's interior ministry said, after the first major crisis of the truce between between Israel and Hamas.What has Donald Trump said about Gaza? In comments strongly rejected by the Palestinians, Egypt, and Jordan, for fear that Israel will not let refugees return, he said Gaza's people should at least temporarily be resettled elsewhere.What have others said about the firings? Republican senator Lindsey Graham brushed off their unlawfulness. He acknowledged that Trump violated the law (telling Meet the Press that technically yeah", he did), before adding: I'm not losing a whole lot of sleep that he wants to change the personnel out." Continue reading...

Trump and his supporters would like to buck the tide of history, but they could end up pulled further into it, and have no way to stop itAfter years of strife over what his rise means, Donald Trump's inaugural address on assuming the presidency a second time clarified everything: he is the symptom of imperial decline who purports to be the cure.His first inaugural, of course, dwelled on national decline: American carnage. The opening of Trump's second speech, however, began with the myth of the golden age - an almost idyllic picture of an end to America's time of troubles, when the country elicits envy and respect it once enjoyed among the powers of the earth. And, far more clearly than in his first inaugural and term, Trump's speech and stratagems indicate a vision not just of competition but of return to comparative ascendancy. He wants America to bask in the sun of its former victory in the competition of empires. It will be a a thrilling new era of national success."Samuel Moyn teaches history at Yale. Continue reading...

If they capitulate to Maga, the government folds, and we all go down with itLess than a week in office, Donald Trump gagged all public communications from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Drug Administration. Pending review by his administration, the agencies are prohibited from issuing health data updates and public safety alerts, including those concerning the H5N1 avian flu, which is spreading in poultry flocks, dairy herds, pet cats and people. Bird flu can be fatal to humans, according to the World Health Organization, from which Trump has withdrawn the US.As precursor to his mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, the president halted asylum applications and canceled appointments already on the books. The Department of Homeland Security announced that it will raid hospitals, churches and schools, sites long off limits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. But don't blame the feds if law-abiding immigrants are swept up too, said Trump's border czar, Tom Homan. There's going to be more collateral arrests in sanctuary cities because they forced us to go into the community and find the guy we're looking for." The Department of Justice is threatening to bring criminal charges against local officials or employees who don't cooperate.Judith Levine is a Brooklyn journalist and essayist, a contributing writer to the Intercept and the author of five books

US senator adds to chorus of criticism of president, who fired inspectors at departments including state and defenseDonald Trump's firing of more than a dozen independent federal government watchdogs late on Friday was a clear violation of law", says US senator Adam Schiff, one of the president's fiercest political opponents.Yeah, he broke the law," the California Democrat said Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press. And not just any law - but a law meant to crowd out waste, fraud and abuse." Continue reading...

As the grandchild of a survivor, I'm proud to keep his testimony alive, in the hope that people never forget the horrors humanity is capable ofYesterday, I watched A Real Pain in the cinema. The film is a beautiful representation of two cousins, united in love and grief for their grandma, exploring their family history on a heritage trip to Poland. This experience is familiar to so many Jews I know - whether attending a trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau or visiting Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the idea of a poignant pilgrimage to see where our ancestors lived, died, survived and escaped from, is commonplace.I've certainly had these experiences. When I was 12, my paternal grandparents, Ann and Henry Ebner, took me to Vienna, where Henry fled from the Nazis with his parents when he was two, arriving as a refugee in the UK just weeks before the start of the second world war. In the same year, my maternal grandma, Anna (Panni), took me to Budapest, to see where she and her husband, my grandpa, George Garai (Gyuri), had lived. Panni was six when Hitler's troops invaded Hungary in 1944, and she survived by being hidden in an orphanage. The memories shared with me on this pilgrimage were painful ones; being separated from her parents, returning home after the war and sitting by the window waiting to see which family members would come back - and so many never did. Continue reading...

Despite recent praise from Trump, No 10 insiders know how risky dealing with the unpredictable president canbeThe sight of Donald Trump signing a flurry of executive orders with his black Sharpie in front of the Maga faithful after his inauguration inspired envy and concern in equal measure inside the UK government.Cabinet ministers have been impressed by the new US president cracking on" with bold - and often controversial - election promises. We could do with a bit more of that here," one told the Guardian. Continue reading...

Some will insist debatable calls were to blame for another heartbreaker for Buffalo. But they have to contend with a great footballing dynasty every yearFrom 1967 through 1975, the Oakland Raiders were the most successful team in professional football ... in the regular season. They compiled a record of 95-24-7, and that winning percentage of .798 was a full 70 percentage points higher than the second-best team, the Dallas Cowboys. Those Raiders were packed with future Hall of Famers, and they had John Madden, one of the NFL's best coaches, for most of that span.And throughout that time, they were stopped from winning the big one by several different dynasties. They lost Super Bowl II to the Green Bay Packers, and were crossed off in successive seasons in the playoffs by the Miami Dolphins and the Pittsburgh Steelers - two more all-time teams. Oakland's 7-8 postseason record tended to render everything else irrelevant. It wasn't until 1976, when the Raiders went 13-1 in the regular season and poleaxed the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl XI, that they finally got that albatross of their backs. Continue reading...

I couldn't help but love the woman who brought light back into our lives - and now I feel so lucky to have my big blended familyWhen my mother died, I didn't think my stepfather would ever find someone else to love. She met him when visiting New York and he moved to Paris to live with us. He'd always ask: How'd this gorgeous French-Brazilian woman pick me?" They shared 16 beautiful years together. On the night of her death, he told me he'd lost 40 years", the years of them growing old together.As much as I wanted him to be happy, I never imagined their connection could be replaced, it just seemed too strong. So when, one spring evening over dinner, he said I went on a date last night" to my little sister and me, my eyes grew wide in shock. I was pleased for him, but devastated for myself. It felt like another era was coming to an end.Iman M'Fah-Traore is a writer. She is working on her first book, a memoir Continue reading...

There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza's innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fullyFor the past week, Palestinians in Gaza have been returning to their homes, now mostly reduced to rubble - and to their dead who still lie beneath. It is only now that we will start to get a fuller picture of the true toll of this war - only now that any kind of grieving or mourning can begin, a process that has been physically and emotionally denied to the Palestinians throughout the past 15 months. Once the final tally becomes clear, what will probably emerge is a colossal death toll of children.Already, indications point to it being children that have made up the majority of casualties. UN analysis of verified deaths during a five-month period confirmed that of those who died, 44% were children. Most often, those children were five- to nine-year-olds; 80% of them killed in their own homes. Continue reading...

US president had called for retaliatory measures' after Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro, blocked two military aircraft carrying deporteesThe US and Colombia pulled back from the brink of a trade war on Sunday after the White House said the Colombians had agreed to accept military aircraft carrying deported migrants.Donald Trump, the US president, had threatened tariffs and sanctions on Colombia to punish it for earlier refusing to accept military flights carrying deportees amid his sweeping immigration crackdown. Continue reading...

Executive order comes two days after visit to LA, which has been devastated by wildfires that burned over 35,000 acresDonald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order directing the federal government to override the state of California's water management practices if they are found to be ineffective.The order comes two days after the president visited the Los Angeles region, which has been devastated by a series of wildfires that have killed at least 28 people and burned more than 35,000 acres. Continue reading...

Ice confirms enhanced targeted operations' in a city on edge after Trump officials warned of enforcement actionsUS federal authorities have begun immigration raids in Chicago, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) statement confirmed on Sunday, just days after incoming border czar" Tom Homan said officials were reconsidering" after details leaked into the press.In a statement, Ice said its agents, along with the FBI, ATF, DEA, CBP and the US Marshals Service, had begun conducting enhanced targeted operations" in Chicago to enforce US immigration law and preserve public safety and national security by keeping potentially dangerous criminal aliens out of our communities". Continue reading...

Memo offers further guidance to stop-work' directive and how to achieve Trump's America first policyDonald Trump urged US Agency for International Development (USAid) workers to join the effort to transform how the federal government allocates aid around the world in line with his America first policy. His administration threatened disciplinary action" for any staff ignoring the its orders, issued days into Trump's second presidency.A sharply-worded memo sent Saturday to more than 10,000 staff at USAid offered further guidance to Friday's stop-work" directive that effectively put a sweeping freeze on US foreign aid worldwide. The memo, reviewed by Reuters, laid out expectations for the workforce on how to achieve Trump's goals. Continue reading...

Palestinians in Gaza remain steadfast after the US president suggested that Palestinians should leave the territory and move to neighbouring nations. Donald Trump told reporters on Saturday: 'You're talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing.' 'I'd like Egypt to take people. And I'd like Jordan to take people,' he added. In response, former Palestinian Authority minister Ghassan Khatib said: 'I think that the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and everywhere, together with the Jordanians and the Egyptians, will definitely reject this proposal.' In a press conference on Sunday, the Jordanian foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, said: 'Our rejection of displacement is firm and unwavering'

Conversation on Sunday was the two leaders' first call since the inauguration of the new US presidentPresident Donald Trump and the prime minister, Keir Starmer, have spoken over the phone and agreed to meet soon".The two leaders spoke for 45 minutes on Sunday in their first call since Trump's inauguration. According to Downing Street's readout of the call, they discussed trade and the economy and security in the Middle East. Continue reading...

Official cites review of course curriculum at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, where new recruits get basic trainingDonald Trump's order halting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives has led the US air force to suspend course instruction on a documentary about the first Black airmen in the US military, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, a US official said on Saturday.The famed Black aviators included 450 pilots who fought overseas in segregated units during the second world war. Their success in combat helped pave the way for Harry Truman's decision to desegregate the armed forces in 1948. Continue reading...

Eighty years after the Nazi death camp was freed, the testimony of survivors is as crucial as everMemory is fragile. A decade ago, 300 survivors gathered at Auschwitz to commemorate the Nazi death camp's liberation. On Monday, 50 will assemble for the 80th anniversary. The median age of Holocaust survivors was estimated at 86 in a study published last year. At 97, Esther Senot is still keeping the promise she made to her dying sister Fanny, whose last wish was that she tell what happened to us ... so that we are not forgotten by history." Almost 1 million of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust were killed at the complex in German-occupied Poland, along with smaller numbers of Poles,Roma and Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war, gay men, political prisoners and others. Its name has become synonymous with evil.The Auschwitz museum's decision to ban speeches by politicians this year may be in part pragmatic. Holocaust memory has too often been a battleground in Poland. The museum's mission stands above politics, yet cannot be wholly insulated from global affairs. Vladimir Putin has attended in the past, but there will be no Russian presence this time. Earlier thismonth, Poland's deputy foreign minister appearedto suggest that authorities would be obliged to arrest the Israeli prime minister if he travelled to the ceremony, because the international criminal court hasissued a warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu's arrest for alleged war crimes in Gaza. The Polish prime minister, DonaldTusk, insisted Mr Netanyahu would be able to attend safely, though Israel's delegation is not expected to include him.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Senator Lindsey Graham says pardoning violent offenders is a mistake' and could spur more violenceJD Vance on Sunday tried to offer a rationale to a record number of executive orders and controversial policy shifts enacted by Donald Trump during the first five days of the latter man's second presidency, claiming without evidence that the moves accomplished more than Joe Biden" and his administration did in the last four years.But one of those moves - Trump's blanket pardons for about 1,500 people who attacked the US Capitol in early 2021 - was labeled a mistake" by a prominent fellow Republican of the president and Vance: US senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who feared the clemency could end up spurring more violence. Continue reading...

Trump began his inauguration day encircled by a bevy of oligarchs, but ended it giving favor to his mobThe most sacred ceremony conducted at the Trump inauguration undoubtedly for Donald Trump personally, with its mystical meaning elevating him to his greatest height as an emperor, was the prayer for Fred Trump. Father Frank Mann, a retired priest from Brooklyn, offered a blessing to the ruthless real estate operator who made his fortune in the borough and bankrolled his son's pilgrimage over the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan to blow a half-billion dollars through six bankruptcies and the financial collapse of the Taj Mahal Hotel and Trump Castle casino in Jersey City, and a blessing for Fred's wife, too, without whom this day would never be the miracle that has just begun".Father Frank had struck up a relationship with Donald after he sent him a photograph of how he had weeded the Trump family gravesite at the Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery. A single tombstone marks not only Donald's parents, but also Fred's father and mother, Donald's original immigrant grandparents - Friedrich deemed an undesirable in Germany - and Fred Jr, subject of Fred's abuse that helped drive him into alcoholism and his early spot in the family plot. From their place in heaven," intoned Father Frank, may they shield their son from all harm by their loving protection and give him the strength to guide our nation along the path that will make America great again".Sidney Blumenthal is a Guardian US columnist. He is a former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has published three books of a projected five-volume political life of Abraham Lincoln: A Self-Made Man, Wrestling With His Angel and All the Powers of Earth Continue reading...

The US president has said he wants the territory's residents to move to neighbouring countries and that they could be displaced 'temporarily or could be long-term'. His remarks followed a call with Jordan's King Abdullah on Saturday.Speaking to reporters on Air Force One about the call, Donald Trump said: 'I said to him: "I'd love you to take on more because I'm looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it's a mess, it's a real mess." I'd like him to take people.'The president also told reporters he had ordered the resumption of shipments of 2,000lb bombs to Israel, after Joe Biden had paused their delivery owing to concerns about civilian casualties in Gaza caused by the weapons

California, New York and other states resist by expanding healthcare and education and limiting detention centersAs Donald Trump tightens the nation's immigration policies, lawmakers in Democrat-led states are proposing new measures that could erect legal obstacles for federal immigration officials and help immigrants lacking legal status avoid deportation.The resistance efforts in California, New York and other states are a counterpoint to the many Republican-led states advancing measures to aid Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration, highlighting a national divide. Continue reading...

This is what crony capitalism looks like. Trump's delay contravenes the law Congress passed last springThe Trump TikTok flip-flop continues as the 47th president has shoved his finger into the eye of Congress. With scant legal authority, he has paused the divestment of the app by ByteDance, its Beijing-based parent. After issuing an executive order on point, the president then held out the possibility that Larry Ellison of Oracle, a Trump-backer, or Elon Musk, the world's richest man, would scoop-up TikTok.This is what crony capitalism looks like. Trump's delay contravenes the law Congress passed last spring, which set a 19 January 2025 divestment deadline. Last week, the US supreme court unanimously held that Congress acted within its constitutional rights to sever the link between TikTok and China. Continue reading...

In his first few days in office, the president reversed four years of work on DEI efforts in the federal governmentWithin his first few days in office, Donald Trump reversed four years of work to increase diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts in the federal government.Since taking office, he's signed a flurry of executive orders, two of which amount to crackdowns on DEI within the federal government. One overturns Joe Biden's efforts to increase DEI programs in the federal government, while a second bans DEI measures from being taken by the federal government. Continue reading...

Those who work from home and their office-based colleagues need to understand each other better - and that starts with language. Here's my new corporate glossaryI note, wearily, that the work culture wars grind on. We are in the midst of yet another push to get staff back in to the office, with Amazon, Morgan Stanley and Asda all desperately trying to stuff the human genie back into its cubicle bottle. Staff at the Office for National Statistics and the Land Registry, among others, have voted to strike to preserve their right to work from home (WFH). Stuart Rose, former CEO of M&S and until November executive chair of Asda, told Panorama that home work isn't proper work" and the Mail quotes a Gen Z CEO" saying he is wrong. Can't we all just get along?One possible explanation for the continued conflict is that we have become strangers to each other. Absence made the heart grow more suspicious: our office-based overlords think we WFHers have become an army of side-hustling slackers. We, meanwhile, know them only by their diktats: to us they are as blankly remote and unrelatable as extras in Severance.Emma Beddington is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Experts suggest that replicating the conditions that saw neighorhoods burn to the ground may not be the best policyGavin Newsom signed a $2.5bn wildfire relief package this week, with the goal of helping Los Angeles rebuild faster". Both the California governor and the Los Angeles mayor, Karen Bass, pledged to suspend environmental and other regulations to make rebuilding homes and businesses easier. Donald Trump has reportedly said he wants the city to recover quickly so that the 2028 Olympics, which Los Angeles is hosting, can be the greatest Games".But many environmental and urban planning experts say that Los Angeles should actually be pausing, and taking a moment to consider how and where to safely rebuild communities located in high-risk wildfire zones. Continue reading...

Republican governor installs conservatives including self-described anti-feminist to University of West Florida boardFlorida's rightwing governor, Ron DeSantis, has engineered a second hostile takeover" of a liberal-leaning state school, education watchers say, after he installed a number of staunch conservatives to the board of trustees at the University of West Florida (UWF).The move almost exactly mirrors the governor's 2023 seizure of power at Sarasota's New College of Florida, in which he ousted the sitting board of the popular liberal arts school and replaced them with hardline cronies in what a national university professor's union denounced as an aggressively ideological and politically motivated" move. Continue reading...

Adapting themselves to Trump's zero-sum worldview, global leaders ditched any appeal to high-flown ideasIn the heady mountain air of Davos last week, away from the parties and the back-slapping tech bros, another, more beleaguered crew touted their wares: the multilateralists.On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, representatives of aid agencies, development banks and multilateral lenders grabbed a moment with the many world leaders present, vying for attention among the glitz. Continue reading...

The first first lady to come back as a brand has launched her own meme coinAn old Slovenian proverb has always been so precious to me. Roast chickens don't fly into mouth by themselves." Or chicken cooked any way that is both appetising and elegant.At one of our beautiful Mar-a-Lago receptions I had the chef sprinkle the finest gold leaf on to the generous individual portions, which were flown simultaneously to every guest by a flock of trained parakeets, each bird dyed a pastel shade to match immaculate table settings I had personally supervised over many exhausting months. I later had the honour to share this serving suggestion with her majesty Queen Elizabeth II. But I knew from my mother that chicken must first be earned.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk Continue reading...

Fashion industry cosying up to new president over fears his ire - and tariffs - could snip profits, critics claimDonald Trump's second presidency has sent shockwaves across industries since Monday - and fashion is no different. If, on the surface at least, the culture around fashion tends to skew centre left, this is is also ultimately a business about making money, and that means keeping the powerful onside.Major players showed their true colours last week. Among the tech billionaires and surprise celebrities at Trump's inauguration was Bernard Arnault, the CEO of fashion conglomerate LVMH, with two of his children, Delphine and Alexandre. Trump's daughter Ivanka, meanwhile, wore LVMH brand Dior, while Usha Vance (wife of JD) went for Oscar de la Renta. Though new first lady Melania wore relatively unknown designer Adam Lippes, her stylist Herve Pierre told Women's Wear Daily that more brands are now keen to dress her for the publicity, compared with the last time she was in the White House. Continue reading...

Ditching hanging out for isolated scrolling on our sofas is a dangerous habit that warrants help on a par with gamblingOver the decades, research has chipped away at our most cherished ideas about human specialness: it turns out that we share such things as theory of mind, empathy, and time perception with many other creatures.But there is one feature of humanity that we can claim to be uniquely our own. Animals - unless captured by humans or infected with zombie parasites - tend to act staunchly in their own interests. Why is it that this frog or that bat or this humming-bird behaves in the peculiar way it does? The answer is almost always the same: to further its survival and the propagation of its genes. Continue reading...

South Dakota governor will take on Trump's anti-immigration mission, air travel and natural disastersKristi Noem secured US Senate confirmation as homeland security secretary on Saturday, putting the South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and Donald Trump's plans to clamp down on illegal immigration during his second presidency.The Senate worked on Saturday as Republicans successfully sought to install the latest member of Trump's national security team. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth was confirmed in a dramatic tie-breaking vote by JD Vance Friday night, joining the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the CIA director, John Ratcliffe. Continue reading...

The American tennis player Madison Keys said that 'lots of therapy' helped her secure her Australian Open title, after she beat the world No 1, Aryna Sabalenka, in the final on Saturday. 'Actually getting help, talking to someone, not just about tennis but how I felt about myself,' she added. 'If I hadn't done that, I don't think I would be sitting here.'At 29, Keys is the oldest first-time women's Australian Open champion in the Open era. 'I'm just really proud of myself,' Keys told a reporter. 'I didn't always believe that I could get back to this point.'

The conversation is no longer just about the present conflict, there is already an undeclared covert war under wayDonald Trump's characteristically vociferous attempt last week to pressure Vladimir Putin into ending the war in Ukraine, which Russia's leader launched three years ago next month, is a welcome shift. Throughout the US election campaign, the Republican candidate complained about the cost of military aid to Kyiv. He claimed the war would never have started had he been in the White House, and boasted he could end it in 24 hours". Trump also avoided personal criticism of Putin. The nature and history of their relationship has long been clouded in mystery. It still is.Yet Trump's tone and emphasis have changed markedly since he began his second term as US president on Monday. Putin's refusal to enter into unconditional negotiations endangered Russia as much as Ukraine, he said. I think he should make a deal. I think he's destroying Russia." Overt threats quickly followed. Russia's economy was imploding, Trump said. Putin should settle now and stop this ridiculous war" or face US tariffs, taxes and additional sanctions. We can do it the easy way, or the hard way - and the easy way is always better." Continue reading...

The US president threatens tariffs, leaves the World Health Organization and the Paris climate deal - all in his first week

Report reveals that teen who killed one student in Nashville area interacted with Wisconsin shooter who killed twoTwo teenagers who carried out deadly shootings before killing themselves at their respective high schools in attacks roughly a month apart from each other appear to have crossed paths online, according to a new joint report from ProPublica and Wisconsin Watch.The first shooting took place on 16 December at the Abundant Life Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin. Two people - a teacher and a 14-year-old student - were killed by the shooter, 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow, before she killed herself. Continue reading...