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1 Louisville Bank Shooting Leaves Five Victims Dead, Nine In The Hospital
A man police identified as a 23-year-old male employee of Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky opened fire at the bank yesterday morning, killing five people and sending eight more to the hospital., including two police officers. Police responded to the call of shots fired in three minutes, exchanged gunfire with the shooter and killed him. The victims who lost their lives were identified as Josh Barrick, Juliana Farmer, Jim Tutt, and Tommy Elliott; Deana Eckert died of her injuries in the hospital last night. An unnamed federal law enforcement source who had been briefed on the attack said that the gunman may have had mental health issues.
2 DOJ Asks Appeals Court To Issue Stay On Abortion Pill Ruling
The Department of Justice formally asked a federal appeals court to put a hold on the order from U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk that stopped the FDA’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. The DOJ requested the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to freeze his decision while the department appeals the ruling. The Biden administration says the legal challenge to the FDA’s approval of the drug in 2000 was made by doctors and medical associations that don’t have legal standing to challenge the approval. Those groups had requested that Judge Kacsmaryk withdraw the FDA approval of mifepristone, but he only blocked the approval instead. Danco Laboratories, the maker of mifepristone, has joined the administration in seeking a stay in the decision. The abortion drug is the sole product of Danco, and they say it may not be able to stay in business if the injunction remains in effect.
3 Department Of Defense Doesn't Know If More Classified Documents Will Appear Online
Classified military documents were found on a “Minecraft” Discord server that had been there since March 1st, and when he was asked yesterday if the government was waiting for more classified docs to appear online National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said, “We don’t know. And is that a matter of concern to us? You’re darn right it is.” The Department of Defense has requested an investigation into the leak by the Department of Justice, and Kirby said during the same press briefing that no suspects had been identified as far as he was aware. The records contained fairly up-to-date details about US and NATO aid to Ukraine. The Associated Press is reporting that a member of the Discord server the documents were posted in said the person who posted them had copies of “way past hundreds” of pages of files and seemed to be motivated solely by trying to impress the other members of the server.