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In the news today: The man suspected in the mass shooting at Brown University and in the fatal shooting of an MIT professor is found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility, officials say; conservative influencers clash at Turning Point USA's annual youth conference over the future of President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement; and European Union leaders agree to provide a massive interest-free loan to Ukraine after a plan to use Russian assets unravels. Also, TikTok signs a deal with three major investors to ensure it can continue operating in the U.S.
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Law enforcement officers are seen outside a storage facility where a suspect in the shooting at Brown University was found dead Thursday in Salem, N.H. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha) |
Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing is found dead, officials say
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A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead inside, then revealed he was also suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor. Read more. |
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Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead Thursday night from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Col. Oscar Perez, the Providence police chief.
Investigators believe he is responsible for fatally shooting two students and wounding nine other people in a Brown lecture hall last Saturday, then killing MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro two days later at his home in the Boston suburbs. Perez said as far as investigators know, Neves Valente acted alone. Neves Valente had come to Brown on a student visa. He eventually obtained legal permanent residence status in September 2017, U.S. attorney for Massachusetts Leah B. Foley said. After officials revealed the suspect’s identity, President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program that allowed Neves Valente to stay in the United States.
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Conservatives clash at Turning Point USA conference over MAGA movement’s direction
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A simmering battle over the future of President Donald Trump’s political movement exploded on one of the right’s biggest stages Thursday, as prominent conservative influencers used Turning Point USA’s annual youth conference to attack each other and their competing visions. Read more. |
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The feuding threatened to eclipse efforts to memorialize Charlie Kirk, the organization’s charismatic founder, who was assassinated in September, even as participants insisted they were honoring the legacy of a unifying figure within the Republican Party.
The raw bitterness on the opening night of the four-day conference reflected deep divisions over the meaning of “America First” and next steps for the “Make America Great Again” movement defined more by the force of Trump’s personality than loyalty to a particular ideological project.
It could also foreshadow more schisms within an increasingly fractious Republican Party, something that Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow and Turning Point’s new leader, warned about in her opening remarks. Since the assassination, she said, “we’ve seen fractures, we’ve seen bridges being burned that shouldn’t be burnt.”
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EU leaders agree on 90 billion-euro loan to Ukraine after a plan to use Russian assets unravels
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European Union leaders agreed on Friday to provide a massive interest-free loan to Ukraine, where the government is on the verge of bankruptcy, to meet its military and economic needs for the next two years. But they failed to bridge differences with Belgium that would have allowed them to use frozen Russian assets to raise the funds. Read more.
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The plan had been to use some of the 210 billion euros ($246 billion) worth of Russian assets that are frozen in Europe, mostly in Belgium. But as the talks bogged down, the leaders eventually opted to borrow the money on capital markets.
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever rejected the scheme as legally risky, and warned that it could harm the business of Euroclear, the Brussels-based financial clearing house where 193 billion euros ($226 billion) in frozen assets are held.
Belgium was rattled when Russia’s Central Bank launched a lawsuit against Euroclear to prevent any loan being provided to Ukraine using its money.
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