A city reels from tragedy
Officials offer more details as a community mourns a deadly shooting in Louisville, Kentucky. And nearly 100 workers at a paper mill were infected with blastomycosis fungus.
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Officials: Louisville shooter 'targeted' victims
As a city mourns, Louisville officials on Tuesday offered more details about a gunman's shooting rampage at a bank that left six dead, including the suspect. The victims, who were all bank employees, were targeted by the shooter, Louisville Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said, and the gunman was a bank employee who on April 4 legally purchased an AR-15 rifle – the weapon used in Monday's attack. Eight people, including two police officers, were wounded in the attack. Here's the latest.
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Manhattan DA Bragg sues House GOP Rep. Jordan over Trump criminal case
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sued House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Tuesday, calling the Ohio Republican’s inquiry into the prosecution of former President Donald Trump “an unprecedentedly brazen and unconstitutional attack” on a local criminal case. Bragg indicted Trump on 34 felony counts of filing false business records in his alleged $130,000 hush-money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels. Jordan, R-Ohio, has demanded answers from Bragg about the case, which three House Republican chairmen called politically motivated. But Bragg said Jordan's inquiry interfered with his criminal case in the first such congressional effort in history. What we know.
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Biden visits Northern Ireland
Twenty-five years after the U.S. helped broker peace in Northern Ireland, Biden landed in Belfast Tuesday to celebrate an accord that ended three decades of bloodshed and is widely considered a major diplomatic success. Yet Biden's visit comes as the Good Friday Agreement, which the Bill Clinton administration helped orchestrate, is being tested by political turmoil. Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, has been without a government – as spelled out in the agreement – for more than a year amid a trade dispute following Brexit: the U.K.'s departure from the European Union. Keep reading.
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Over 90 mill workers infected with fungus in Michigan
A fungus found in soil and decaying wood is making workers in Michigan sick. More than 90 employees at a paper mill are believed infected with blastomycosis, with about a dozen requiring hospitalization. An investigation into the outbreak at the Billerud mill in Escanaba is ongoing and involves local, state and federal health and occupational safety officials. The mill employs about 900 people. A blastomycosis outbreak affecting large numbers of people is highly unusual, as the fungal disease is not typically transferred from person to person. Here's what we know.
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