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1 Active shooter“neutralized” outside Wisconsin school, officials say amid reports

of gunshots, panic: Witnesses described children fleeing amid the sound of gunshots near a Wisconsin middle school where authorities say an active shooter was “neutralized” outside the building. Authorities in Mount Horeb said without giving details that the “alleged assailant” was harmed and schools districtwide had been placed on lockdown. A woman working nearby said she heard gunshots and saw dozens of children running. Afterward, law enforcement vehicles including SWAT-style trucks massed outside the school. 2 Cyberattack was due to a lack of multifactor authentication, UnitedHealth CEO says: The Change Healthcare cyberattack that disrupted health care systems nationwide this year started when hackers entered a server that lacked a basic form of security: multifactor authentication. UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty said Wednesday in a U.S. Senate hearing that his company, which owns Change Healthcare, is still trying to understand why the server did not have the additional protection. 3 Prosecutors seek September retrial for Harvey Weinstein:

Prosecutors asked for a September retrial for Harvey Weinstein during a hearing at a Manhattan courthouse Wednesday, the disgraced movie mogul’s first appearance since his 2020 rape conviction was overturned by an appeals court last week. Weinstein, wearing a navy blue suit, was seated in a wheelchair pushed by a court officer as he entered the preliminary hearing. 4 Unruly passenger must pay United Airlines $20,638 for disrupting flight: A passenger who was yelling and became physically aggressive on a United Airlines flight from London to Newark, New Jersey, in March, prompting the crew to divert the plane to Bangor, Maine, has been ordered to pay the airline $20,638 in restitution, federal prosecutors said. The passenger, Alexander Michael Dominic MacDonald, 30, of Chelmsford, England, was also sentenced April 25 to time served, prosecutors said. 5 Duane Eddy, twangy guitar hero of early rock, dead at age 86: Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser” and “Peter Gunn” helped put the twang in early rock ’n’ roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, has died at age 86. Eddy died of cancer Tuesday at the Williamson Health hospital in Franklin, Tennessee, according to his wife.