A shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, left three children and a teacher dead, while President Trump proposed the death penalty for killing a firefighter and Ukraine resumed strikes on Russian refineries after a short pause. In Virginia, a federal appeals court revived school districts’ challenges over transgender policies and Amtrak’s nine-day Washington outage begins Friday, as groups pressed the World Bank over hydropower in Nepal, Milwaukee swept its way to the World Series and Rajinikanth’s Jailer 2 opened big worldwide.
In This Roundup
- Three Children and a Teacher Killed in Shooting at Oregon Elementary School
- Trump Proposes Death Penalty for Anyone Who Kills a Firefighter
- Ukraine Resumes Strikes on Russian Oil Refineries After Brief Pause
- Virginia Schools Can Sue Education Department Over Transgender Policies, Court Rules
- Amtrak Trains From Virginia Will End at Alexandria for Nine Days Starting Friday
- After Nepal’s Deadliest Flood, Groups Urge World Bank to Stop Backing Risky Hydropower
- Brewers Sweep Dodgers to Reach First World Series Since 1982
- Rajinikanth’s Jailer 2 Opens With About 125 Crore Rupees Worldwide
1 Three Children and a Teacher Killed in Shooting at Oregon Elementary School
Three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and a teacher were killed Thursday at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, police said. Another child, age 7, and a second teacher were taken to a hospital in critical condition. Police Chief Mike Krantz said officers were called just before 1 p.m. after a person in a vehicle outside the school reported being shot at.
Authorities said the 16-year-old attacker, a Bend resident, forced his way in by shooting at locked doors and was then shot by a community member who had followed him into the building. He was found dead inside when officers arrived minutes later. Police said they did not yet know whether he had a connection to the school, which serves kindergarten through fifth grade.
Source: USA Today
2 Trump Proposes Death Penalty for Anyone Who Kills a Firefighter
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wants the death penalty for anyone convicted of killing a firefighter, extending a push he has already made for people who kill police officers. Speaking to firefighters and law enforcement officers in the White House Rose Garden, he said he had directed Attorney General Todd Blanche to pursue that punishment in such cases.
Trump argued the threat of execution would deter attacks, including shootings at crews working at fire scenes. The proposal came during a week when capital punishment was already in the headlines in Washington, and it would add firefighters to a list the president has been building since he resumed federal executions in his first term.
As president I will always stand with those who stand on the front lines of law enforcement and fighting fires.
Source: USA Today
3 Ukraine Resumes Strikes on Russian Oil Refineries After Brief Pause
Ukraine struck a Russian oil refinery in the Ryazan region on Thursday, ending a three-day pause it had observed at Washington’s request. Russian officials said the drone attack started a fire at the site, southeast of Moscow, and a senior Ukrainian official confirmed the facility had been targeted.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv had held back while Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy sites continued, and he complained that Ukraine had also faced limits on Western intelligence and on satellite communications used by its military. The resumption strains relations with President Trump, who had pressed for a halt to refinery strikes as part of a push to bring down diesel prices.
Source: WVLT
4 Virginia Schools Can Sue Education Department Over Transgender Policies, Court Rules
A federal appeals court in Richmond ruled 2-1 on Thursday that school boards in Arlington and Fairfax County can pursue their cases in Virginia federal court, reviving their challenge to an Education Department finding against their transgender policies. A lower judge had said the claims belonged only in the US Court of Federal Claims.
The 4th Circuit said the districts are seeking more than money, including orders barring future enforcement, so the cases are not limited to the claims court. Both districts allow transgender students to use bathrooms and other facilities matching their gender identity. The Education Department and lawyers for the boards did not immediately comment.
Source: Reuters
5 Amtrak Trains From Virginia Will End at Alexandria for Nine Days Starting Friday
Amtrak’s nine-day Pause for Progress outage starts after the last trains on Friday, October 16, and runs until service resumes on the morning of Monday, October 26. Crews will replace switches and crossovers in the First Street Tunnel south of Washington Union Station, rebuild the tunnel track base and install modern electric switch systems.
South of Washington, many trains will end at Alexandria instead. Amtrak Virginia will run one round trip between Norfolk and Alexandria and one between Roanoke and Alexandria, with timed buses between Alexandria and Washington and express buses from several Virginia cities. Other long-distance routes will be shortened or split, and riders are urged to check their specific train before travelling.
Source: Amtrak Media
6 After Nepal’s Deadliest Flood, Groups Urge World Bank to Stop Backing Risky Hydropower
A coalition of 122 civil society organisations from 38 countries used the World Bank Group’s annual meetings in Bangkok this week to call on the bank to stop financing large hydropower in risk-prone mountain valleys. Their letter, delivered to senior officials, follows the August flood disaster in Nepal that the groups describe as the country’s deadliest.
The groups say warnings about earthquake, glacial lake and climate risks around the Upper Trishuli-1 project were raised years before the flood, and that a recommended climate resilience assessment had not been carried out. Financing for Nepal’s recovery is among the issues being discussed in Bangkok, and the groups argue reconstruction should not rebuild the same risks.
Source: International Rivers
7 Brewers Sweep Dodgers to Reach First World Series Since 1982
Milwaukee beat Los Angeles 6-4 on Thursday to complete a four-game sweep of the National League Championship Series and reach the World Series for the first time in 44 years. The Dodgers led 4-0 early, helped by a three-run home run from Shohei Ohtani, before the Brewers came back.
Jake Bauers, named the series MVP, started the comeback with a two-run double and later walked with the bases loaded to tie the game. Garrett Mitchell’s home run in the sixth put Milwaukee ahead, and its bullpen held Los Angeles scoreless over the final seven innings. The Brewers will open the World Series at home on October 23 against the winner of the Cleveland-Tampa Bay series.
Source: Reuters
8 Rajinikanth’s Jailer 2 Opens With About 125 Crore Rupees Worldwide
Rajinikanth’s Jailer 2 opened to about 125.25 crore rupees worldwide on its first day, according to figures reported by Sacnilk and cited by Filmibeat, with about 70.25 crore rupees in domestic gross and about 55 crore rupees overseas. The film opened in theatres worldwide on Thursday, October 15.
Rajinikanth returns as retired jailer Tiger Muthuvel Pandian, with Ramya Krishnan, Yogi Babu and others back from the first film and a long list of new faces and cameos. Nelson Dilipkumar directed the sequel for Sun Pictures, with music by Anirudh Ravichander. Second-day collections were still being tracked on Friday.
Source: Filmibeat
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