Particulars on Georgia faculty capturing suspect. And, Russian media employed U.S. influencers

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The FBI had prior warning concerning the 14-year-old accused of fatally capturing two college students and two lecturers and injuring 9 others at Apalachee Excessive Faculty in Winder, Ga., the company stated on X. Authorities acquired a number of nameless ideas in Might 2023 about on-line threats to commit a faculty capturing at an unidentified location and time. These threats contained pictures of weapons. The FBI says it recognized and interviewed the then-13-year-old suspect and his father. The daddy stated they’d searching weapons however the teen didn’t have unsupervised entry to them. The boy denied making the web threats. The sheriff’s workplace alerted native faculties to watch him, however there was no possible trigger for arrest or extra regulation enforcement motion on the time. Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey stated the teenager can be charged with homicide and tried as an grownup.

Legal professionals for former President Donald Trump and the Justice Division are set to look in a federal courtroom immediately for what may very well be the final listening to in his election interference case earlier than the November election. This yr, voters will resolve the winner of the presidency — and, by extension, Trump’s authorized destiny. A D.C. grand jury indictment accused Trump of actions ensuing within the violent siege on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. If he reclaims the White Home, he’s anticipated to direct new Justice Division leaders to drop the landmark case.

• 🎧 Trump claims the brand new indictment is election interference, saying it violates a DOJ coverage about taking large steps too near an election, NPR’s Carrie Johnson tells Up First. Choose Tanya Chutkan might want to determine the best way to draw the road between which of Trump’s actions within the White Home had been a part of his presidential duties and which had been made as a candidate for workplace. Johnson says there’s no method this will probably be resolved earlier than the election and it won’t go to trial till subsequent yr as a consequence of the potential of the Supreme Courtroom’s involvement.

Federal officers are accusing Russia of utilizing unwitting right-wing American influencers to unfold Kremlin propaganda forward of the November presidential election. Yesterday, the Justice Division charged two workers of RT, Russian state media, within the scheme. Investigators say they helped publish on-line movies that racked up 16 million views on YouTube and different social media platforms. The staffers named within the indictment are Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva.

• 🎧 The purpose appears to be amplifying matters like immigration, inflation and undermining assist for Ukraine with out indication that RT was behind the movies, NPR’s Shannon Bond says. The indictment says the workers funneled almost $10 million to a Tennessee firm to make the alleged scheme work. The corporate was not named, however particulars match one known as Tenet Media. The Russian workers allegedly had a great deal of management over the content material, permitting them to push for very particular angles that echoed Kremlin narratives.

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David Rawlings and Gillian Welch carry out onstage for the category of 2021 medallion ceremony on the Nation Music Corridor of Fame and Museum on Might 01, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Grammy-winning people duo Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have made a profession singing about onerous occasions. Now, they’re residing one in all their songs. 4 years in the past, a twister destroyed their Nashville recording studio, flipping their profession and lives the wrong way up. However they’ve turned catastrophe into inspiration with their new album Woodland, named after their once-shattered studio. “To not go crazy we had to actually make some art or we would just forget what type of people we were,” Welch stated on Morning Version.

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From mosses to mountain lions, the temperate old-growth rainforests of the Pacific Northwest present the complexities and circumstances essential to assist excessive ranges of biodiversity. The Northwest Forest Plan has supplied safety for these historic ecosystems during the last 30 years, and has helped advance forest administration in Oregon, Washington and California. Developed in response to a long time of unsustainable logging practices, the plan has helped restore forest ecosystems in 17 Nationwide Forests.

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For the final decade, photographer David Herasimtschuk has captured pictures of forests throughout the Pacific Northwest, documenting the inhabitants of the final remaining old-growth ecosystems. From salamanders and salmon to bears and mountain lions, his photographs illustrate not solely the fantastic thing about the forests and the creatures that decision it house but additionally the symbiotic relationships which are important to the planet’s welfare.

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Australia’s Rachael Gunn, generally known as B-Woman Raygun, competes throughout the Spherical Robin Battle on the breaking competitors at La Concorde City Park on the 2024 Summer season Olympics on Aug. 9, 2024, in Paris, France. Her efficiency drew laughs and criticism and now Gunn is responding.

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1. Australian breakdancer Raygun has apologized for the backlash her Paris Olympic Video games efficiency introduced in opposition to the breakdancing group.
2. Former Rep. Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican whose criticism of Trump price her her congressional seat, stated she will probably be voting for Vice President Harris within the November elections.
3. Diana Oganesyan went viral after an air siren, used to warn Ukraine of Russian assaults, started to wail and the younger singer spontaneously began to harmonize with the alarm.

This text was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.