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6 useless, 30 damage in capturing at Chicago-area July 4 parade

HIGHLAND PARK, Ailing. (AP) — A gunman on a rooftop opened hearth on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago on Monday, killing no less than six folks, wounding no less than 30 and sending lots of of marchers, mother and father with strollers and youngsters on bicycles fleeing in terror, police mentioned.

Authorities mentioned a person named as an individual of curiosity within the capturing was taken into police custody Monday night after an hourslong manhunt in and round Highland Park, an prosperous neighborhood of about 30,000 on Chicago’s north shore.

The July 4 capturing was simply the newest to shatter the rituals of American life. Faculties, church buildings, grocery shops and now neighborhood parades have all turn out to be killing grounds in current months. This time, the bloodshed got here because the nation tried to search out trigger to have a good time its founding and the bonds that also maintain it collectively.

“It positively hits rather a lot more durable when it’s not solely your hometown but it surely’s additionally proper in entrance of you,” resident Ron Tuazon mentioned as he and a pal returned to the parade route Monday night to retrieve chairs, blankets and a baby’s bike that he and his household deserted when the capturing started.

“It’s commonplace now,” Tuazon mentioned of what he referred to as one more American atrocity. “We don’t blink anymore. Till legal guidelines change, it’s going to be extra of the identical.”

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Motive possible not terror-related in ‘brutal’ Danish capturing

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A gunman who killed three folks when he opened hearth in a crowded shopping center acted alone and apparently chosen his victims at random, Danish police mentioned Monday, all however ruling out that the assault was associated to terrorism.

Authorities filed preliminary costs of homicide and tried homicide towards a 22-year-old Danish man, who can be held for twenty-four days in a safe psychological well being facility whereas authorities examine the crime, prosecutor Søren Harbo advised reporters.

After the custody listening to, protection lawyer Luise Høj mentioned she agreed to have her consumer endure a psychological examination. She didn’t touch upon the costs. Police have mentioned the person was identified to psychological well being service with out elaborating.

Police haven’t recognized a motive for Sunday’s assault inside one in all Scandinavia’s greatest procuring facilities. The suspect, carrying a rifle and knife, was rapidly arrested, and Copenhagen chief police inspector Søren Thomassen mentioned the person additionally had entry to a different gun. He mentioned the firearms had been obtained illegally however gave no additional particulars.

“It was the worst potential nightmare,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen mentioned Monday, calling the assault “unusually brutal.”

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In rural West, extra worries about entry to abortion clinics

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Within the central Oregon metropolis of Bend, the only Deliberate Parenthood clinic serving the japanese half of the state is bracing for an inflow of sufferers, notably from neighboring Idaho, the place a set off legislation banning most abortions is anticipated to take impact this summer time.

“We have already began hiring,” mentioned Joanna Dennis-Prepare dinner, the Bend Well being Middle Supervisor.

Throughout the U.S. West, many abortion suppliers serving rural areas had been already struggling to fulfill demand in an unlimited area the place staffing shortages and lengthy journey distances are boundaries to reproductive companies for girls. Oregon alone is bigger geographically than the whole United Kingdom.

Some amenities serving rural communities in states the place abortion stays authorized fear these pre-existing challenges might be additional compounded by the overturning of Roe v. Wade, as extra sufferers journey from states the place the process is banned or vastly restricted.

Anticipating an abortion ban in Idaho, Oregon lawmakers earlier this yr created a $15 million fund to extend entry to abortion companies.

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Uneasy US tries to fete a July 4 marred by parade capturing

A capturing that left no less than six folks useless at an Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb rattled Monday’s celebrations throughout the U.S. and additional rocked a rustic already awash in turmoil over excessive court docket rulings on abortion and weapons in addition to hearings on the Jan. 6 riot.

The most recent mass capturing got here because the nation tried to search out trigger to have a good time its founding and the bonds that also maintain it collectively. It was alleged to be a day for taking off work, flocking to parades, devouring sizzling canines and burgers at yard barbecues and gathering below a cover of stars and exploding fireworks.

“On a day that we got here collectively to have a good time neighborhood and freedom, we’re as a substitute mourning the tragic lack of life and fighting the phobia that was introduced upon us,” Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering mentioned.

The Highland Park parade started round 10 a.m. however was instantly halted 10 minutes later after pictures had been fired. A whole bunch of parade-goers — some visibly bloodied — fled the realm, forsaking chairs, child strollers and blankets. Authorities introduced an individual of curiosity into custody Monday night.

Because the Highland Park neighborhood mourned, fireworks started thundering in neighboring cities and throughout the nation. Pyrotechnics bloomed shortly after dusk in Boston and New York Metropolis, the place a kaleidoscope of shade exploded over the Hudson River and illuminated skyscrapers.

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Flight cancellations ease barely as July 4 weekend ends

DALLAS (AP) — Vacationers flying house from July Fourth getaways confronted flight delays Monday, however airways had been canceling fewer flights than within the days main as much as the vacation weekend.

Since vacation weekend journey picked up on Thursday, airways have canceled greater than 2,200 U.S. flights, and one other 25,000 had been delayed.

Airports had been packed.

Greater than 9 million flyers flocked to U.S. airports between Thursday and Sunday, peaking at 2.49 million, a pandemic-era report, on Friday, in accordance with figures from the Transportation Safety Administration.

By late Monday afternoon on the East Coast, greater than 2,200 U.S. flights had been delayed and greater than 200 canceled, in accordance with FlightAware.

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Griner sends letter to President Biden pleading for his assist

Brittney Griner has made an attraction to President Joe Biden in a letter handed to the White Home by way of her representatives saying she feared she would possibly by no means return house and asking that he not “ neglect about me and the opposite American Detainees.”

Griner’s agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas mentioned the letter was delivered on Monday. Many of the letter’s contents to President Biden stay personal, although Griner’s representatives shared just a few traces from the hand-written observe.

″…As I sit right here in a Russian jail, alone with my ideas and with out the safety of my spouse, household, associates, Olympic jersey, or any accomplishments, I’m terrified I is perhaps right here ceaselessly,” Griner wrote.

“On the 4th of July, our household usually honors the service of those that fought for our freedom, together with my father who’s a Vietnam Battle Veteran,” the Phoenix Mercury heart added. “It hurts interested by how I often have a good time at the present time as a result of freedom means one thing fully totally different to me this yr.”

The 2-time Olympic gold medalist is within the midst of a trial in Russia that started final week after she was arrested on Feb. 17 on costs of possessing hashish oil whereas returning to play for her Russian staff. The trial will resume Thursday.

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Sydney floods affect 50,000 round Australia’s largest metropolis

SYDNEY (AP) — A whole bunch of houses have been inundated in and round Australia’s largest metropolis in a flood emergency that was impacting 50,000 folks, officers mentioned Tuesday.

Emergency response groups made 100 rescues in a single day of individuals trapped in automobiles on flooded roads or in inundated houses within the Sydney space, State Emergency Service supervisor Ashley Sullivan mentioned.

Days of torrential rain have triggered dams to overflow and waterways to interrupt their banks, bringing a fourth flood emergency in 16 months to elements of the town of 5 million folks.

The New South Wales state authorities declared a catastrophe throughout 23 native authorities areas in a single day, activating federal authorities monetary help for flood victims.

Evacuation orders and warnings to arrange to desert houses impacted 50,000 folks, up from 32,000 on Monday, New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet mentioned.

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Video exhibits Akron police kill Black man in hail of gunfire

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A Black man was unarmed when Akron police chased him on foot and killed him in a hail of gunfire, however officers believed he had shot at them earlier from a automobile and feared he was making ready to fireplace once more, authorities mentioned Sunday at a information convention.

Akron police launched video of the capturing of Jayland Walker, 25, who was killed June 27 in a pursuit that had began with an tried visitors cease. The mayor referred to as the capturing “heartbreaking” whereas asking for persistence from the neighborhood.

It is not clear what number of pictures had been fired by the eight officers concerned, however Walker sustained greater than 60 wounds. An lawyer for Walker’s household mentioned officers saved firing even after he was on the bottom.

Officers tried to cease Walker’s automobile round 12:30 a.m. for unspecified visitors and gear violations, however lower than a minute right into a pursuit, the sound of a shot was heard from the automobile, and a transportation division digital camera captured what seemed to be a muzzle flash coming from the automobile, Akron Police Chief Steve Mylett mentioned. That modified the character of the case from “a routine visitors cease to now a public security subject,” he mentioned.

Police physique digital camera movies present what unfolded after the roughly six-minute pursuit. A number of shouting officers with weapons drawn strategy the slowing automobile on foot, because it rolls up over a curb and onto a sidewalk. An individual carrying a ski masks exits the passenger door and runs towards a car parking zone. Police chase him for about 10 seconds earlier than officers hearth from a number of instructions, in a burst of pictures that lasts 6 or 7 seconds.

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US: Israeli hearth possible killed reporter; no remaining conclusion

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officers mentioned Monday the bullet that killed veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was possible fired from an Israeli place. However they mentioned it was too badly broken to achieve an absolute dedication, and that there’s “no cause to consider” she was intentionally focused.

State Division spokesman Ned Value, asserting the outcomes of the probe, mentioned “impartial, third-party examiners” had undertaken an “extraordinarily detailed forensic evaluation” of the bullet that killed her after the Palestinian Authority handed it over to them.

The outcomes, introduced forward of President Joe Biden’s go to to the area subsequent week, had been unlikely to put the matter to relaxation. The Palestinians reiterated that Israel was guilty, whereas Israel mentioned its personal investigation would stay open and didn’t handle the U.S. conclusion that its troops had been possible accountable.

Abu Akleh, a veteran Palestinian-American correspondent who was well-known and revered all through the Arab world, was shot and killed whereas masking an Israeli navy raid on Could 11 within the Jenin refugee camp within the occupied West Financial institution. Palestinian eyewitnesses, together with her crew, say Israeli troops killed her and that there have been no militants within the fast neighborhood or any alternate of fireplace on the time she was shot.

Israel says she was killed throughout a posh battle with Palestinian militants and that solely a forensic evaluation of the bullet might verify whether or not it was fired by an Israeli soldier or a Palestinian militant. It has strongly denied she was intentionally focused, however says an Israeli soldier might have hit her by mistake throughout an alternate of fireplace with a militant.

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‘Hell on earth’: Ukrainian troopers describe japanese entrance

BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — Torched forests and cities burned to the bottom. Colleagues with severed limbs. Bombardments so relentless the one choice is to lie in a trench, wait and pray.

Ukrainian troopers getting back from the entrance traces in japanese Ukraine’s Donbas area — the place Russia is waging a fierce offensive — describe life throughout what has was a grueling struggle of attrition as apocalyptic.

In interviews with The Related Press, some complained of chaotic group, desertions and psychological well being issues brought on by relentless shelling. Others spoke of excessive morale, their colleagues’ heroism, and a dedication to maintain combating, even because the better-equipped Russians management extra of the fight zone.

Lt. Volodymyr Nazarenko, 30, second-in-command of the Ukrainian Nationwide Guard’s Svoboda Battalion, was with troops who retreated from Sievierodonetsk below orders from navy leaders. Throughout a month-long battle, Russian tanks obliterated any potential defensive positions and turned a metropolis with a prewar inhabitants of 101,000 into “a burnt-down desert,” he mentioned.

“They shelled us day by day. I don’t need to lie about it. However these had been barrages of ammunition at each constructing,” Nazarenko mentioned. “The town was methodically leveled out.”