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1 Biden To Deliver Remarks In Buffalo Today
President and First Lady Biden will be in Buffalo, New York today. After the they meet with victims' families, law enforcement, and first responders, he will visit the site of the weekend mass shooting and offer remarks. The White House says his speech will take place from a local community center at 12pm. The weekend shooting left ten people dead. Authorities say the shooter wrote a lengthy manifesto online in which he refers to himself as a white supremacist and mentions a plan to target a mostly Black neighborhood. Meanwhile, officials in Buffalo say there have been several arrests over social media threats following the incident. Trini Ross, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of New York, wouldn’t go into details, but the investigations are ongoing. As for the suspected shooter, Erie District Attorney John Flynn says he’ll be in court Thursday.
2 Officials: SoCal Mass Shooting Was Politically Motivated
Police are identifying the suspect and the motive in Sunday's shooting at a church in retirement community of Laguna Woods, California. While we are not naming him out of respect to the families and survivors, officials say the 68-year-old man from Las Vegas, Nevada has been booked on suspicion of one count of murder and five counts of attempted murder. As for the “why?” Politics and hate. Specifically, the alleged gunman is described as a Chinese immigrant, while the victims are Taiwanese. The Orange County Sheriff's Department says he's being held on one-million dollars bail. The ages of the victims range from 66 to 92 years.
3 Ukraine: The Fight For Mariupol Ends
The "combat mission" in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol is finished. That's according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine which said the mission had been "fulfilled." There has been a major effort to rescue people from a steel plant in the city as the Russian invasion goes on. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the evacuation to separatist-controlled territory was done to save the lives of the fighters who endured weeks of Russian assaults in the maze of underground passages below the hulking Azovstal steelworks. He said the “heavily wounded” were getting medical help. “Ukraine needs Ukrainian heroes to be alive,” he offered. “It’s our principle.” Meantime, Senators are advancing a bill aimed at providing more aid to Ukraine. The vote was 81 to eleven. The measure would give $40-billion in aid to help the war-torn country fight off the Russian invasion. A final vote on the measure is expected later this week. Republicans like Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky have delayed passage of the measure over concerns about how the money would be spent.