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NPR News: 12-16-2024 6PM EST

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🗓️ 16 December 2024

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NPR News: 12-16-2024 6PM EST

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0:19.1

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. A school shooting in Madison,

0:25.0

Wisconsin has left three people dead, a teacher, a student, and the teenaged shooter, who

0:30.5

police say was also a student at the abundant life Christian school. Police say six others were

0:35.4

injured and are hospitalized and two have life-threatening injuries.

0:40.0

The shooter whose name, age, and gender are being withheld, was found dead by police.

0:44.7

There were no metal detectors or school resource officers on the campus of the small school.

0:49.5

Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes says it's a sad day for Madison and the country.

0:54.2

I think we can all agree that enough is enough.

0:59.0

And we have to come together to do everything we can to support our students

1:04.0

to prevent press conferences like these from happening again and again and again.

1:11.0

He says the shooter's family is cooperating with police and there's no other threat to the school

1:15.0

or community. No word yet on a motive. Tick-Tock and its Chinese parent company,

1:21.5

Bight Dancer, asking the Supreme Court to block a law that would ban the app next month.

1:28.9

As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, the federal appeals court upheld a law that would ban the app next month. As MPIR's Bobby Allen reports,

1:34.0

the federal appeals court upheld the law earlier this month. It's seen as TikTok's last legal shot. It has asked the Supreme Court to step in and halt a law that bans TikTok nationwide,

1:38.8

unless Beijing-based bite dance divest the app. In its application, TikTok says Congress has

1:43.4

singled out TikTok, saying

1:45.3

banning the app would violate the First Amendment rights of 170 million American users. While the viral

1:51.1

video app waits for a decision from the high court, President-elect Donald Trump has been

1:55.1

indicating he may rescue TikTok. Trump once opposed TikTok, but he recently said it has a warm spot in his heart, but did

2:02.6

not explain how he might step in to save the app.

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