Manhunt begins after stabbing kills 1, wounds 7 in England
A search was underway in Birmingham, England, on Sunday for a man who was said to have carried out a series of stabbings across the city that left at least one person dead and seven more wounded, two of them seriously, police said.
They were looking for one man thought to be responsible for what appeared to be a ‘‘random attack,’’ police said.
Chief Superintendent Steve Graham of West Midlands Police said that officers were searching for a motive, but there was no indication the stabbings were related to terrorism, a hate crime or gang violence.
Police have confirmed that at least one man was killed and that two people, a man and a woman, had serious injuries. Five others were also wounded, and their injuries were described as minor.
No link has been established among the victims, leading police to believe that the stabbings were done at random.
Five boats sank in a Texas lake during a nautical parade in support of President Donald Trump, but no one was injured or killed, officials said Sunday.
Boaters began calling for help “almost immediately” after the procession for Trump’s reelection got underway on a lake west of Austin on Saturday, according to Kristen Dark of the Travis County sheriff’s office. Deputies ultimately responded to 15 distress calls and received three other reports of boats taking on water.
Images of the event show the water of Lake Travis choppy with the wakes of dozens of boats flying American, Texas and “Trump 2020” flags.
Dark said that weather on the roughly 19,000-acre lake was calm, but the tightly packed boats created large waves. Deputies have found no evidence of foul play, she said.
Education Secretary Betsy Devos’ attempt to give private schools a larger share of federal coronavirus relief dollars is illegal, a federal judge ruled in striking down the policy.
The Education Department said in May that it would give CARES Act funds to private schools without regard to “family income, residency or eligibility based on low achievement.”
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich said in a ruling Friday that doing so would be illegal. The judge, appointed by President Donald Trump, said Congress spoke with “clarity and precision” in outlining the funding formula.
The second powerful typhoon to slam Japan in a week unleashed fierce winds and rain on southern islands on Sunday,
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is set to fight for his freedom in a British court after a decade of legal drama, as he challenges American authorities’ attempt to extradite him on spying charges over the site’s publication of secret U.S. military documents.
Lawyers for Assange, 49, and the U.S. are scheduled to face off in London Monday at an extradition hearing that was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.
American prosecutors have indicted the Australian on 18 espionage and computer misuse charges adding up to a maximum sentence of 175 years. His lawyers say the prosecution is a politically motivated abuse of power that will stifle press freedom and put journalists at risk.
Assange attorney Jennifer Robinson said the case “is fundamentally about basic human rights and freedom of speech.”
American prosecutors say Assange is a criminal, not a free-speech hero.