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UNLV gunman was unemployed professor who had 150 rounds …

Las Vegas police stand near the scene of a shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, in Las Vegas. Terrified students and professors cowered in classrooms and dorms as a gunman roamed the floors of a campus building on Wednesday, killing several people and critically wounding another person before dying in a shootout with police. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Houston has a population that’s young. Its next mayor, …

FILE - In this photo combination, U.S. Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee, D-Texas, left, speaks during a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 13, 2019, and at right, Democratic state Sen. John Whitmire answers a question during a televised candidates debate at Houston Public Media studios, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, in Houston. A mayoral runoff Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023 between state Sen. John Whitmire, 74, and U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, 73, has the fourth-largest city in the U.S. on the verge of picking a new leader who cuts against Houston's demographic trends. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Michael Wyke, File)

Federal judge poised to prohibit separating migrant families …

FILE - A pair of migrant families from Brazil passes through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico in Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum on June 10, 2021. A federal judge was poised Friday, Dec.8, 2023, to prohibit separation of families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration for eight years. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File)

UNLV gunman had list of targets at the university and …

A police helicopter flies overhead during a shooting on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, campus on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Centenarian survivors of Pearl Harbor attack return to …

U.S. Marines fire a salute in front of the USS Arizona Memorial during the 82nd Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)

Ex-Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to cut plane’s engines …

Sarah Stretch, center, and Noah Horst, center right, speaks to reporters after the indictment hearing of Joseph David Emerson on Thurs., Dec. 7, 2023, in Portland, Ore. Stretch is married to Emerson, 44, a pilot who is accused of trying to turn off the engines in flight of a plane he was riding in while off duty, and Horst is Emerson's attorney. (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP, Pool)

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Man fires shotgun outside Jewish temple in upstate …

Albany police officers gather outside Temple Israel, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, in Albany, N.Y. A 28-year-old suspect was in police custody for allegedly firing two rounds from a shotgun outside the Jewish temple on Friday, just hours before the start of Hanukkah. Officials said no one was injured and police they did not know the man's motive.(AP Photo/Maysoon Khan)

US Sen. Kevin Cramer’s son charged with manslaughter …

FILE - Sen Kevin Cramer, R-ND, speaks during a hearing, May 20, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. A North Dakota sheriff's deputy was killed when a stolen SUV driven by the son of Sen. Cramer crashed during a police pursuit and struck a sheriff's vehicle, pushing it into the deputy, according to the North Dakota Highway Patrol and a statement from Cramer.(Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP, File)

Judge orders prison, probation in last sentencings …

FILE - Shawn Fix, center, confers with defense attorney Nichole Dougherty, left, during a court hearing at Antrim County Circuit Court in Bellaire, Mich., June 7, 2023. A judge will hand down the final sentences Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023 in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, capping a remarkable investigation that broke into public view on the eve of the 2020 presidential election but produced mixed results in court. Shawn Fix and Brian Higgins pleaded guilty earlier this year in northern Michigan's Antrim County, the location of Whitmer's second home. (AP Photo/John Flesher, file)

Deaths from tainted cantaloupe increase to 3 in U.S. …

Cut cantaloupe is displayed for sale at a supermarket in Philadelphia on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. On Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, U.S. and Canadian officials reported additional deaths in a salmonella outbreak tied to tainted cantaloupe. (AP Photo/Jonathan Poet)

Texas deputies confronted but didn’t arrest fatal …

This booking photo provided by the Austin, Texas, Police Department shows Shane James. On Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, Texas authorities charged James with capital murder following a wave of daylong violence across two major cities that left six people dead and two police officers recovering from gunshots, including one who was shot in the leg outside a high school in Austin. (Austin Police Department via AP)

Wyoming holds off on auctioning huge piece of pristine …

Grand Teton National Park Superintendent Palmer Chip Jenkins, Jr., addresses Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray, Gov. Mark Gordon, Auditor Kristi Racines and Auditor Curt Meier, and State Superintendent Megan Degenfelder onscreen, after their 5-0 vote not to auction off for now a large piece of state land within Grand Teton National Park, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023 in Cheyenne, Wyo..The proposed auction drew enormous public opposition. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)