GUNMAN WENT TO CLASS AFTER SHOOTING AT CALIF. SCHOOL
A teenage gunman returned to class Tuesday after shooting a fellow student multiple times just outside a northern California high school, an attack that prompted an hours-long lockdown of more than 10,000 students and staffers in a complex with three schools, authorities said.
Officers arrested the 17-yearold shooter on suspicion of attempted murder in a classroom at Ridgway High School in Santa Rosa, north of San Francisco, after a less-than-two-hour manhunt.
The victim, a 16-year-old boy, was in stable condition after being shot twice in the upper body on the sidewalk outside the high school.
Political donor to plead guilty to hiding work as foreign agent.
WASHINGTON» A prolific political fundraiser who raised millions of dollars for Democrats before donating large sums to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee has agreed to plead guilty to multiple federal charges, including tax evasion and concealing his work as a foreign agent as he lobbied highlevel U.S. government officials, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
The allegations against Imaad Zuberi don’t involve his Trump ties but instead are centered on contributions he made during the Obama administration, when officials say he used his donations to obtain access to government officials and persuade them to change American policy in ways favorable to his clients. The case alleges that a fundraiser whose name has surfaced in a separate probe into Trump’s inaugural funding was years earlier soliciting foreign business and leveraging connections to Democratic officials and members of Congress.
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles say Zuberi, 49, has agreed to plead guilty to three counts with a maximum 15-year prison sentence.
Loughlin, other parents charged again in college scheme.
OSTON» “Full House”
B actress Lori Loughlin, her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, and nine other parents faced new federal charges Tuesday as prosecutors pressured them to acknowledge their guilt in a scheme involving dozens of wealthy parents accused of bribing their children into elite universities or cheating on college entrance exams.
A grand jury in Boston indicted the parents on charges of trying to bribe officials at an organization that receives at least $10,000 in federal funding. In this case, they’re accused of paying to get their children admitted to the University of Southern California.
Death toll rises to 15 amid violence in Chile.
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Rioting, arson attacks and violent clashes wracked Chile for a fifth day Tuesday, as the government raised the death toll to 15 in an upheaval that has almost paralyzed the South American country long seen as the region’s oasis of stability.
About half of Chile’s 16 regions remained under an emergency decree and some were a under military curfew, the first — other than for natural disasters — imposed since the country returned to democracy in 1990 after a bloody 17-year dictatorship.
U.S. to ask NATO to pay more to protect Saudi Arabia from Iran.
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» U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday that he will urge allies later this week to contribute more to the defense of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region to counter threats from Iran.
The plan is part of a broader U.S. campaign to get NATO allies to take on more responsibility for security in the Gulf, including pleas for nations to send ships, aircraft and air defense systems to the region.
The U.S. has already agreed to send three Patriot missile batteries, dozens of fighter jets and other aircraft to Saudi Arabia.