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Three children and a teacher are dead after a school shooting in Oregon. Election officials are debunking a years-old conspiracy theory. And could another interest rate hike be coming?
Here\u2019s what to know today.
Three children and a teacher were killed yesterday afternoon in a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon. The children were ages 5, 8 and 11.
The deceased suspect, whom officials identified as a 16-year-old Bend resident, forced entry into Silver Rail Elementary School by firing through the locked doors, police said.
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Deschutes County dispatch received a call at 12:59 p.m. local time from a person in a vehicle saying they were being \u201cshot at multiple times by a person with a long gun,\u201d police said. Then, \u201cdozens\u201d of calls reported a shooter at the K-5 school.
Officers arrived within three minutes and learned the suspect had been fatally shot by a community member who pursued him into the school, authorities said.
Police did not say whether the suspect had connections to the school, or how he got access to the weapon. In Oregon, minors can legally possess certain firearms if they have parental consent.
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Election officials nationwide are debunking a years-old conspiracy theory that poll workers will write on your ballot in order to disqualify it. The claim is baseless, but has circulated online.
\u201cElection workers write on ballots for different reasons as required by law. This in no way affects whether your ballot will be counted,\u201d the State Board of Elections in North Carolina said.
In some states, officials will mark ballots with initials signifying an election judge reviewed the ballot or a counting tally. In others, they don\u2019t touch them at all. Regardless, voters are the ones filling out the ballots.
Tim Bobanic, a supervisor of elections in Florida, said it\u2019s not clear why this particular conspiracy has such lasting power.
\u201cI\u2019m not entirely convinced that this isn\u2019t outside groups, foreign entities\u201d trying to \u201csow distrust,\u201d he said.
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Will the Federal Reserve raise interest rates again? Chairman Kevin Warsh offered few clues.
In a speech at the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Warsh said the U.S. economy has \u201cbroadly\u201d moved in the direction that the Fed expected during its last meeting in September, when it raised rates for the first time since 2023.
\u201cWe made very clear we\u2019d deliver price stability,\u201d Warsh said, a signal of his focus on inflation and that another interest rate hike could be on the horizon. But, he stuck to a familiar tone and refused to give any clear hint about how soon that might come.
Warsh also projected optimism about AI, predicting that \u201cit will make economies and countries that put it to good use more productive.\u201d
More on his comments.<\/strong><\/a>
Book-to-screen adaptations are not a new concept in Hollywood. But this year, what stood out to me was that the classics were becoming talking points on my social media feeds. From Emerald Fennell\u2019s \u201cWuthering Heights,\u201d released in February, to Zoe Kazan\u2019s \u201cEast of Eden\u201d series, which dropped on Netflix this month, people are engaging with book-to-screen projects in a way that\u2019s helping elevate them to cultural notoriety.
Social media users are documenting their journeys through the classics, from first-time reads inspired by screen adaptations to annotated rereads ahead of their premieres. Others are posting deep dives comparing the books with their on-screen counterparts, fueling discussion over what Hollywood gets right \u2014 and wrong. Some even offer recommendations to people who want to read as they watch.
It\u2019s a refreshing trend, given that earlier this year The Atlantic, which counts literary icon Ralph Waldo Emerson as a co-founder, declared \u201cThe End of Reading Is Here\u201d and influencers such as Alix Earle recently boasted about \u201cnever\u201d reading a book. I talked to Kazan, actress Florence Pugh, who plays Cathy in \u201cEast of Eden,\u201d and Kiska Higgs, the president of production and acquisitions at Focus Features about why they think audiences continue to resonate with Hollywood projects that are pulled from bookshelves.<\/strong><\/a>
\u2014 <\/em>Saba Hamedy<\/strong><\/em>, culture and trends editor<\/em>
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