Authorities are investigating deadly shootings in Australia and at Brown University.

That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post.

I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Monday, December 15th.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

We'll start with the shooting in Australia. Yesterday, two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration near Bondi Beach in Sydney. Australian authorities

designated the attack as a terrorist incident that targeted the city's Jewish community.

Here's Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaking yesterday.

An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian.

And every Australian tonight will be, like me, devastated on this attack on our way of life.

At least 40 people were injured, and the death toll rose today to 15 people.

Officials said the ages of the victims ranged from 10 to 87.

Authorities identified one of the gunmen as a 50-year-old man who was also

killed, and they said the suspected second shooter was his 24-year-old son. He's been hospitalized.

Police also said they had recovered and disarmed two improvised explosive devices from the scene of the attack.

One witness to the attack described what he saw to Reuters.

It's kind of like, I don't know, fish in a barrel.

Like the guy had a, I think of what I've been told, he had an automatic rifle, big gun,

standing on the bridge, and just target practice.

Today, Jewish Australians have been gathering near the site of the shooting.

And state and federal lawmakers in Australia said they are already considering tougher gun control laws.

Authorities are still searching for the Brown University shooter. That's our second story.

On Saturday afternoon, a gunman opened fire inside an engineering and physics building on the Providence, Rhode Island campus. At least two students were killed,

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