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Crime · Mount HorebPolice shot and killed a student outside a Wisconsin middle school Wednesday after receiving a report of someone with a weapon. The incident sent children fleeing and prompted an hourslong lockdown of local schools.
Police killed student outside Wisconsin school after reports of someone with a weapon, official says
51% Center coverage: 102 sources
Joe Biden · United StatesTwenty-six Republican attorneys general filed lawsuits Wednesday challenging a new Biden administration rule requiring firearms dealers across the United States to run background checks on buyers at gun shows and other places outside brick-and-mortar stores.
26 Republican attorneys general sue to block Biden rule requiring background checks at gun shows
79% Center coverage: 53 sources
Joe Biden · CharlottePresident Joe Biden, who heads to Wilmington, North Carolina Thursday to talk about the economy, is detouring to Charlotte to meet with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job — just a week after he sat down with the grieving relatives of two cops killed in Upstate New York.
Biden adds stop to North Carolina trip to visit with families of fallen law enforcement officers
75% Center coverage: 47 sources
Crime · ChicagoA man wanted in connection with the murder of an off-duty Chicago police officer last month has been taken into custody, according to Chicago police.The department said its officers and the U.S. Marashals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested 22-year-old Xavier Tate Jr. for first-degree murder in Glendale Heights, Illinois, on Wednesday night.
Man arrested in fatal shooting of Chicago police officer who was heading home from work
60% Center coverage: 15 sources
