Police say 6th-grader killed, 5 injured in Iowa school shooting
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🗓️ 5 January 2024
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Police say a 6th-grader was killed in an Iowa school shooting.
USA TODAY Congress and Campaigns Reporter Riley Beggin looks at the importance of democracy guardrails.
Bill Clinton and Mar-a-Lago are mentioned in the latest batch of released Jeffrey Epstein documents.
USA TODAY Breaking News and Education Reporter Zach Schermele explains the challenges and benefits of erasing student loan debt through bankruptcy court.
The American Kennel Club welcomes its 201st dog breed.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt ad free right now. |
| 0:05.0 | Join Wunderry Plus in the Wundery app. Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Friday January 5th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:20.2 | excerpt. |
| 0:21.2 | Today. is the excerpt. Today there's been another school shooting in America. |
| 0:27.8 | Plus we look at the guardrails of democracy and just how possible is it these days to erase student loans through bankruptcy court. |
| 0:35.0 | A gunman opened fire at a high school in Perry, Iowa yesterday, killing a sixth grader and injuring five others. |
| 0:43.2 | Officials said the gunman was also dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot |
| 0:47.9 | wound. Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante said the shooting was reported in the morning shortly before classes were set to begin. |
| 0:55.1 | Deputies were on the scene within seven minutes. |
| 0:58.0 | Officials said the five injured included four students and an administrator and that one person was in critical condition |
| 1:04.5 | but expected to survive. The suspect has been identified as a 17 year old student at |
| 1:09.6 | the school and was armed with a shotgun and a handgun. |
| 1:13.0 | According to federal data out last year, |
| 1:15.0 | the number of deadly school shootings for the 2021 to 2022 school year |
| 1:19.0 | hit a record high for the second year in a row. |
| 1:28.0 | As he seeks a second term in office, former President Donald Trump has indicated |
| 1:30.0 | that he |
| 1:33.7 | said he may use the Justice Department to go after political adversaries |
| 1:37.5 | has mentioned military force to stop demonstrations |
| 1:40.6 | and said he would be a dictator for one day if reelected in 2024. |
| 1:45.0 | Those comments are worrying many, but as USA Today Congress and Campaign's |
| 1:49.5 | reporter Riley Beggin and I discussed, there are still a number of democracy guardrails in place. |
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