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☆ Natalie ‘Samantha’ Rupnow identified as the shooter who opened fire at a Wisconsin school, killing 2 and injuring 6
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( Karina Tsui | Nicole Chavez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The tragedy marks the 83rd school shooting across the United States this year – surpassing 2023 for the most school shootings in a single year since CNN began tracking such incidents in 2008. WISCLike all students at the K-12 school, Rupnow entered Abundant Life at the beginning of the school day. An ‘unthinkable’ tragedyMadison Police Chief Shon Barnes speaks about the shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School on Monday. Ending the fall semester how it startedEmergency vehicles are parked outside the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, following a shooting Monday. The following week, a 14-year-old shooter killed four victims at a high school in Winder, Georgia – making it the deadliest school shooting of the year.

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☆ San Diego Zoo shares first look at new giant pandas following their arrival in US
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Kaila Nichols | Amanda Musa | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

CNN —San Diego’s newest giant pandas are acclimating well to their new state-side home, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance said Tuesday. The zoo shared first-look photos of the pair, Yun Chuan and Xin Bao, who are the first giant pandas to enter the United States in 21 years, according to the zoo. Since their arrival in the Golden State on June 27, the zoo says, “They are acclimating well to their new home in a private habitat and will not be viewable to the public for several weeks.”Yun Chuan is a nearly five-year-old male who can be identified by his "long, slightly pointed nose," the zoo said. San Diego Zoo Wildlife AlliancePhotos of the new residents show Yun Chuan chomping on a blade of grass and Xin Bao lounging in her enclosure. CNN’s Jessie Yeung, Manveena Suri and Fred He contributed to this report.

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☆ Biden calls US ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with Russia and China
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Arlette Saenz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —President Joe Biden on Wednesday called close US ally Japan “xenophobic” at a Washington, D.C., fundraiser, just weeks after lauding the US-Japan alliance at a state dinner. The president made the remark while arguing that Japan, along with Russia and China, would perform better economically if the countries embraced immigration more. Because we welcome immigrants,” Biden said, according to reporters traveling with the president at a fundraiser with Asian American and Pacific Islander supporters. Immigrants are what makes us strong.”Biden had similarly cast Japan, Russia and China as “xenophobic” during an interview with a Spanish language radio station in March. The latest critique of Japan comes less than a month after he hosted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a state visit.

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☆ 1 in every 13 bridges in America is in ‘poor’ condition. Thousands could collapse from a collision
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

A container ship colliding into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is drawing attention to potential vulnerabilities among some of America’s more than 600,000 bridges. The Key Bridge stood for 47 years, and in that time it never received the sort of jolt that anyone could have thought would bring it down. Extreme weather events, increasingly heavy trucks and collisions from larger container ships pose significant risks to US bridges, engineers and other infrastructure experts say. The Key Bridge was “fracture critical,” the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday. To minimize the potential of ships bringing down bridges, bridges need to be built with what are known as redundancies— protections around bridges’ danger points.

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CNN —Thousands of doctors in South Korea took to the streets of Seoul on Sunday to protest the government’s plans to increase medical school admissions and what they see as a broader lack of support for the country’s medical system. The doctors say the government needs to address a wider range of challenges facing the healthcare system than just the total number of doctors trained per year. Around 8,000 trainee doctors in South Korea began striking on February 21 by submitting their resignation. A doctor writes messages during a rally to protest against government plans to increase medical school admissions in Seoul on Sunday. Compounding the challenge, South Korea has the world’s lowest birth rate, which has been falling continuously since 2015.

Persons: Kim Hong, ’, Yoon Suk Yeol, ”, Jessie Yeung, Yoonjung Seo Organizations: CNN, South, Gallup Locations: South Korea, Seoul

☆ September is historically the worst month for stocks. That might not be the case this year
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —US stocks typically see their worst performance of the year in September, but there are signs the market could avoid a steep downturn this time around. This month has been the worst for stocks on average since 1928, according to Yardeni Research. That’s partly because, much like August, there is a lull in economic data that could catalyze a stock rally. While stocks fell roughly 2% in August, they still outperformed their 4% loss during the same month last year. It’s the latest example of how extreme weather, exacerbated by climate change, impacted major North American attractions this summer, reports my colleague Nathaniel Meyersohn.

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☆ Yellen set to ask Congress to lend more money to developing countries to counter China
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Elisabeth Buchwald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is set to ask Congress to lend more money to developing countries to counter China’s growing influence, according to a copy of her prepared remarks viewed by CNN. In addition to increasing lending to other International Monetary Fund programs, Yellen intends to tell lawmakers that the Biden Administration wants to boost involvement in the Inter-American Development Bank group’s private-sector investment fund and the African Development Fund. “These investments will bolster our engagement in these regions at a time of geopolitical competition,” Yellen intends to say in her testimony before the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday. Such last-minute action “hurts our global leadership and credibility on the world stage,” Yellen is set to tell lawmakers on Tuesday. Fitch Ratings warned that it is still considering downgrading US debt despite the last-minute deal that Congress passed.

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