Minneapolis Mass Shooting, CDC Director Fired, Biden Admin and Gaza Aid
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
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Investigators in Minneapolis are working to determine why a heavily armed 23-year-old opened fire at a Catholic school on Wednesday morning. The new Director of the Center for Disease Control has been fired less than a month after being sworn into the job. And, NPR reporters spoke with more than two dozen former senior Biden administration officials for a behind the scenes look at the discussions that shaped U.S. policy towards Israel’s war in Gaza.
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| 0:00.0 | Two children were killed and more than a dozen injured in a shooting at a Catholic school mass in Minneapolis yesterday. |
| 0:08.2 | All of the remaining victims are expected to survive. There is a range of injuries, however. |
| 0:13.6 | We'll bring you all we know so far. I'm Michelle Martin. That's Laila Faddle, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:21.9 | The director of the Centers for Disease Control has been fired and several other high-ranking officials have resigned. |
| 0:27.9 | What's behind these high-profile departures? |
| 0:30.2 | And NPR has an exclusive look behind the scenes at some of the contentious debates within the Biden administration over how much pressure |
| 0:38.9 | to put on Israel to allow aid into Gaza. The situation on the ground was so dire that you were |
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