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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Thursday September 5th, 2024. This is the

excerpt. Today the aftermath of the latest American school shoot it.

Plus the Justice Department accuses Russia's RT network in an election

misinformation plot and what's the latest on consumer spending.

Four people are dead and nine injured after a shooting at a high school outside Atlanta yesterday.

The shooting suspect has been identified as a 14 year old student at the school and

officials say he will be charged with murder as an adult.

The FBI received tips about online threats last year involving the then 13 year old, the Bureau's

Atlanta office said in May of 2023 the FBI's National Threat

Operation Center got anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location.

Federal agents posted on X formerly Twitter.

The threats contained images of guns and the FBI determined that the posts originated in Georgia. The FBI turned over the

evidence to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office which interviewed the

suspect and his father who said that he had hunting guns in the house but that

his son did not have access to them.

The Justice Department has charged two Russian citizens with directing a 10 million dollar campaign to

influence the 2024 election through online platforms that flooded millions

of Americans with disinformation. That's what Attorney General Merrick Garland announced yesterday. The

complaint focused on RT, the Russian state media network, dropped by American

distributors after the invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022.

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