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Shay Stevens
LIVE from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. At least three people are dead and six others are injured, four following a mass shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin. City Police Chief Sean Barnes says a teenager and a teacher were among those killed in Monday's attack.
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Unnamed Reporter
At 10:57am a second grade student called 911 to report a shooting had occurred at school. Now let that soak in for a minute.
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Shay Stevens
Barnes says the shooter was a 15 year old girl who appears to have died from a self inflicted gunshot wound. He says authorities are still trying to figure figure out a motive for the attack. TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance, are asking the Supreme Court to block a law that would ban the app in the U.S. next month. As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, a federal appeals court upheld the law earlier this month.
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Bobby Allen
It's seen as TikTok's last legal shot. It has asked the Supreme Court to step in and halt a law that bans TikTok nationwide unless Beijing based ByteDance divests the app in its application. TikTok says Congress has singled out TikTok, saying banning the app would violate the First Amendment rights of 170 million American users. While the viral video app waits for a decision from the high court, President Elect Donald Trump has been indicating he may rescue TikTok. Trump once opposed TikTok, but he recently said it has a warm spot in his heart, but did not explain how he might step in to save the app. Analysts say there are many ways Trump can keep TikTok in business in the US including instructing his administration to not enforce the law. Bobby Allen, NPR News.
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Shay Stevens
A judge in New York is refusing to dismiss President elect Donald Trump's conviction of falsifying business records alleged allegedly to hide a hush money payment to a porn star during his 2016 campaign. Trump maintains he is innocent and no sentencing date was scheduled after the verdict was issued last May. The future of the case is unclear in wake of a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. President elect Trump says the government is not disclosing all it knows about reported drone sightings in the Northeast. As NPR's Joe Rose reports, those comments were part of a wide ranging press conference Monday at Mar a Lago.
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Joel Rose
There have been thousands of reported sightings of unexplained drones in New Jersey and elsewhere in recent weeks. The Biden administration says there is no evidence of a threat to the public and that many of the unexplained sightings are likely manned aircraft. Still, President Elect Trump is accusing the administration of keeping Americans in the dark about what the drones are our military.
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Unnamed Speaker
Knows and our president knows, and for some reason they want to keep people in suspense.
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Joel Rose
Trump declined to say whether he has received an intelligence briefing on the drones. US Military officials have said publicly they do not know where they are coming from, but say there is no indication that they're being controlled by a foreign power. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
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Shay Stevens
This is NPR News. Beginning in September 2027, new passenger vehicles must be equipped with sensors that make a sound when rear seat passengers have not fastened their seat bel. The National Transportation Safety Board says the warning sound will last longer when front seat passengers are not buckled up. The agency estimates that seat belt use saves at least 50 lives a year and prevent hundreds of injuries. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a vote of confidence in Parliament on Monday, setting the stage for a snap election in February. Details from NPR's Rob Schmitz in Berlin.
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Rob Schmitz
Today's vote puts an end to Scholz's fractious government at a time when Europe's biggest economy is under strain from Russia's war in Ukraine and from increased competition from China. Schultz's defeat paves the way for the dissolution of Parliament ahead of early elections scheduled for February 23rd. Going into the short winter election campaign, the center right Christian Democratic Union Party is polling first, followed by the far right AfD party and Schultz's own Social Democrats. The collapse of Schultz's three party coalition government came in early November when Schultz fired his finance minister after months of debate over how to revitalize Germany's stagnant economy. Rob Schmitz, NPR News, Berlin.
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Shay Stevens
Canadian opposition leader Jagmeet Singh is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down. The move follows the resignation of Canada's finance Minister Christopher Freeland, one of Trudeau's most loyal cabinet officials. Freeland has been replaced by Canada's public safety minister, Dominic LeBlanc. US futures are lower in after hours trading on Wall Street. This is NPR News.
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