Good Friday afternoon. A teen is in custody after police say he fatally shot five people in North Carolina, Donald Trump has fired back at the January 6th committee with a 14-page letter, and we’re remembering one of the beloved stars of the Harry Potter movies. Here is what’s in our Nightly Rundown. |
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15-year-old in custody after rampage left five dead in North Carolina |
Police are searching for a motive after they said a 15-year-old boy killed five people, and injured two others, in a shooting rampage in the North Carolina capital of Raleigh. The shooting unfolded on Thursday in a neighborhood and nearby hiking trail. Among those killed was Gabriel Torres, 29, an off-duty Raleigh police officer who was on his way to work. The other victims have been identified by authorities as Nicole Connors, 52, Susan Karnatz, 49, Mary Marshall, 35, and a 16-year-old white male. The suspect is in custody at a hospital after a “long standoff,” last night, and is in critical condition, authorities said. He has not been publicly identified by police, and no information was given on his background or the potential motive. |
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Trump doesn’t say if he’ll testify in letter to January 6th committee |
Former President Donald Trump sent a letter to the January 6th committee after the panel voted to subpoena him, but did not say whether he would comply and testify. Instead, Trump used the 14-page letter to repeat his false claims the election was stolen, and criticize the committee’s investigation. In its final hearing before the midterms, the January 6th committee made its case that Trump was aware that he lost the 2020 election, and yet he orchestrated a multi-part plan to stay in power that culminated with the attack on the Capitol. “We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion,” said Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the committee, while introducing the resolution to subpoena Trump. “And every American is entitled to those answers.” During the hearing, the committee also played never-before-seen video of congressional leaders taking refuge from the mob at the Capitol. One clip featured House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying she wanted Trump to come to the Capitol that day so she could “punch him out.” |
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Dr. Oz “accepted responsibility” for attacks on Fetterman’s health |
Dr. Mehmet Oz , the Republican nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, says he has “accepted responsibility” for his campaign’s attacks on the health of his Democrat opponent John Fetterman, and said he would not speak to his own patients the way that his campaign has talked about Fetterman. “I accepted responsibility, and I deal with issues as they come up,” Oz told Dasha Burns, in an NBC News exclusive interview. “But he has his own set of issues.” After Fetterman suffered a stroke in the spring, an Oz campaign adviser suggested he could have avoided his serious health scare if he “had ever eaten a vegetable in his life.” In an apparent effort to pressure Fetterman to commit to a debate in August, the Oz campaign released a statement promising not to “hurt John’s feelings” and offering to pay for “any additional medical personnel he might need to have on standby.” “Would you ever talk to your patients like this?” Burns asked Oz. He responded “no.” |
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Don’t back nuclear-armed Putin into a corner, Belarusian leader warns |
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko warned the West not to back Vladimir Putin into a corner, saying Russia has nuclear weapons for a reason. “If you back a person or a country into the corner, there is only one way out — forward,” Lukashenko told our Keir Simmons on the sidelines of a regional summit Kazakhstan. “That’s why don’t cross red lines, you cannot cross them.” Lukashenko, the strong man and close Kremlin ally, appeared to suggest Russia was prepared to use nuclear weapons, while also downplaying the possibility. “If there is, God forbid, an attack on the territory of the Russian Federation, Russia can, if necessary, use all kinds of weapons,” he said. “Never, never has President Putin or the Russian leadership set a goal to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine,” he added. |
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What else we're watching: |
Video posted on social media from inside a United flight from Chicago to Miami shows the engine on fire, after authorities say the plane hit a bird. The plane landed safely back at O’Hare International Airport, officials said. |
A juror in the Parkland school shooting trial said she was threatened by a fellow member of the jury, according to a motion filed by prosecutors hours after the jury rejected the death penalty for the gunman and instead recommended life in prison without parole. |
Two climate protesters were arrested after throwing tomato soup on Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting in London. The painting was unharmed, police and a museum spokesman said. |
Two of the country’s largest supermarket chains plan to merge, with Kroger agreeing to buy Albertson’s for $24.6 billion. |
Bruce Sutter, the former Chicago Cubs pitcher and MLB Hall of Famer, has died at 69. |
Robbie Coltrane, the Scottish actor who starred as Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has died at 72. |
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