Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett.

And I'm Amna Nawaz. On the news hour tonight, just days into the new school year, a shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis leaves multiple dead and many more injured.

FEMA employees who signed a letter criticizing the Trump administration are placed on leave,

and the latest example of the president cracking down on dissent.

And Judy Woodruff travels to Northern Ireland to explore what Americans can learn from its history of political divisions.

I think a key for any person in American leadership is to ensure that you never descend into political balance, as we did here.

The cost of that is absolutely incredible.

Welcome to The News Hour. Another mass shooting, this time during Mass at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, has left

at least two young children dead and another 17 people injured, most of them children.

Authorities say they don't yet know of a motive, but said the shooter released a manifesto in

social media that has since been taken down.

William Brigham begins our coverage.

In South Minneapolis this morning, excitement for the first week of school turned to terror.

As an attacker, armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol, opened fire into the

windows of the church at Annunciation Catholic School.

As the morning went on, ambulances lined the street, and parents and loved ones, clearly

overwhelmed with fear, rushed to the family reunification

zone near the school.

My husband's a firefighter, and he got a phone call this morning and said that there was

an incident at Annunciation, and that's where my niece and nephew go to school.

We live nearby, so he just took off on foot.

And my brother-in-law is a firefighter, too.

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