good morning!🙋🏼♀️I’m Nicole Forelt. Where were you on August 26th?
Take a quick look at Thursday’s news:
- Teachers, faculty and children took life-saving actions at Announcement Church in Minneapolis.
- The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been fired.
- This top college quarterback makes a zero NIL dollar.
Minneapolis Community Lament After Fatal Shooting
Tears dripped down my cheeks as mourners wrote a message at the memorial Wednesday after the fatal shooting at the Minneapolis Catholic Church.
what happened: Authorities say two children were killed Wednesday, and at least 17 people were injured when the shooter fired fire through the windows of the announcement church at young students worshipping them.
- Minnesotan attended all night to sadness. “I’m not usually that emotional, but I was really shaking,” said Elaina Polding, 17, who goes to the youth group at Annunciation Church.
- Teacher, kids – I’ve become a hero. The teacher and some children were rushing to protect the youngest and most vulnerable. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said that without these brave actions, “it could have been much worse.”
- Who did it? Attacker Robin Westman said he had said the weapon used in the attack had been legal and recently purchased, and 23-year-old Robin Westman died behind a church from a self-injured wound. Like many large archers, Westman’s motivations, even with detailed writings, would be difficult to decipher to meaningful things that could prevent future attacks.
Vance blames Zelensky’s elliptical office explosion on Biden’s Ukraine policy
“Sometimes people don’t agree. Do you want it to explode in an oval office in public? Not necessarily.”
~ Vice President JD Vance suggested in an exclusive interview with USA Today that he was not asking for a match to scream at Ukrainian Vownai’s Voldy Mee Zelensky in February, but he believes that he helped Tuti exchange shed light on the regime’s concerns with Ukraine.
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CDC Director has been expelled
Less than a month after the Senate confirmed her, the White House said it fired CDC director Susan Monares after refusing to step down from the post amid policy discrepancies with the ousterization of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Monares. In his resignation letter, Demetre Daskarakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said the recent changes to the CDC’s adult and child vaccination schedule “will threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people.” Kennedy has been targeting vaccine policies since being nominated as the nation’s top health officials.
Wind workers in the union want the answer
Dozens of union construction workers off the coast of Rhode Island Coast are playing video games and texting their families, trying to understand why President Donald Trump kicked them out of work. On August 22, the White House suddenly stopped a near-complete 65-turbine revolution wind project in the Atlantic, wondering how developers and construction workers would proceed. For union members hoping to return to work, Trump’s actions make no sense: after more than a decade of planning, permits, approvals, reviews and lawsuits, it helps create cheap, carbon-free energy for consumers while providing six-figure jobs to skilled workers. They are wondering as they wait for offshore.
Today’s speaker
Meet top quarterbacks making $0 money
Navy quarterback Blake Holvas is in the game’s best elite class. He’s part of the top ten, including Cade Krunik of Clemson, Garrett Nussmeyer of LSU, and the rest of the names you will recognize. And that means everyone at that level is well compensated in 2025. All elite quarterbacks in the country at least Billionaires, many of those names have won more than that. Duke quarterback Daryan Mensa reports $4 million a year. Archmanning in Texas is estimated to make more than $6 million. However, athletes like Horvath at the Service Academy are considered government officials and are not permitted to make money from names, images or likeness. However, Horvath’s Nil rating may be at the seven-person figure.
Photo of today: What caused us to open up conflict?
US Taylor Townsend and Latvian Jelena Ostapenko approached the net for a customary post-match handshake at the US Open on Wednesday, but a verbal confrontation continued. See more photos of the US Open.
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