MAN ARRESTED IN TEXAS SHOOTING
A man suspected of opening fire at an off-campus college party in Texas, killing two people and injuring 12 others, was arrested Monday.
Brandon Ray Gonzales, 23, of Greenville, Texas, was taken into custody fewer than 48 hours after Saturday’s shooting, Hunt County Sheriff Randy Meeks said.
Gonzales, who was arrested at the auto dealership where he worked, was booked into the Hunt County jail on a charge of capital murder of multiple persons. Bond was set at $1 million.
Justice Dept. appeals order on Mueller grand jury testimony.
TON» The Justice Department on Monday appealed a judge’s order directing the department to provide the House with secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
The department also asked Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell to put her own order on hold until a federal appeals court has an opportunity to weigh in.
Howell on Friday directed the Justice Department to produce by Wednesday grand jury testimony referenced in Mueller’s report.
Students join Iraq protests as clashes kill 3 demonstrators.
BAGH
» Thousands of students joined Iraq’s antigovernment protests on Monday, as clashes with security forces firing tear gas canisters killed at least three demonstrators and wounded more than 100.
The students skipped classes at several universities and secondary schools in Baghdad and across Iraq’s majority-Shiite south on Monday to take part in the protests, despite the government ordering schools and universities to operate normally.
One of those killed was a 22-year-old female medical student, the first woman to be killed since the protests began earlier this month.
Florida child migrant detention facility shuts down.
MIAMI» The Trump administration announced Monday that it is shutting down one of the largest U.S. facilities for child migrants, which had come under intense criticism because of its regimented conditions and the contractor’s ties to a freshly departed White House official.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement that it has reduced bed capacity from 1,200 to zero and the contract with Comprehensive Health Services Inc. is set to end on Nov. 30.
About 2,000 workers will be let go in the coming days.
Guilty plea in newspaper shootings; insanity hearingisnext.
ANNAPOLIS,
MD.» A Maryland man pleaded guilty Monday in the slayings of five employees at an Annapolis newspaper, and a jury is expected to hear testimony next month about whether he was not responsible by reason of insanity.
Jarrod Ramos pleaded guilty in the 2018 massacre at the Capital Gazette newspaper.
Judge Laura Ripken accepted his plea Monday afternoon.
Ripken said she determined that Ramos “freely, knowingly and voluntarily” waived his right to a jury trial to determine his guilt or innocence.