A 17-year-old student is in custody after shooting a fellow-student at a public high school in Texas on Wednesday afternoon, police said.

A Secret Service agent was removed from their assignment Monday after they started a physical fight with other agents, a source told Fox News Digital.

Texas authorities made more than 20 arrests at a disruptive anti-Israel protest at the University of Texas at Austin on Wednesday, as the Israel-Hamas war continues.

Fox News host Jesse Watters criticizes the Biden administration's failure to treat anti-Israel protests as a threat to national security on "Jesse Watters Primetime."

University of Southern California, Harvard University, University of Texas at Austin and Columbia University all had student riots on Wednesday, as anti-Israel hostility on college campuses grows.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., spoke out on "Jesse Watters Primetime" after addressing students on Columbia University's campus, where he faced anti-Israel crowds.

Police gather in preparation to break up protests at USC after campus police issued a dispersal order. CNN's Anderson Cooper talks with former DC Police Chief and CNN Law Enforcement Analyst Charles Ramsey.

NASA re-established communication with Voyager 1, an interstellar spacecraft that nearly five months ago began sending unreadable data back to the space agency.

An Oklahoma man admitted to "bludgeoning" his girlfriend's relative and dumping the victim's body in a nearby wildlife refugee, police said.

Amnesty International said in its annual report Wednesday that authorities in Togo have prevented civilians from protesting peacefully, and have repressed the media.

North Macedonia will hold a presidential runoff on May 8 after no candidate secured enough support from voters to win outright; voting will coincide with parliamentary elections.

A former student at the Berklee College of Music has been given a nine-month prison sentence for threatening and stalking a person who posted a leaflet in support of democracy in China.

Federal wildlife officials announced a bottlenose dolphin was found shot to death last month on West Mae’s Beach in southwest Louisiana; up to $20,000 is being offered for information.

Gov. Ned Lamont was hit with a citation for cutting down trees and bushes in protected wetland areas behind his $7.5 million Greenwich, Connecticut home.

The Federal Trade Commission has voted to ban noncompete agreements, and the Biden administration has finalized a rule that will allow more workers to be eligible for overtime pay.

Chynna Phillips asked for prayers ahead of her surgery to remove a nearly foot-long, benign tumor in her left leg that she's had since she was a child.

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley is pushing to expand payments to those exposed to Manhattan Project chemicals in states, including Alaska, Kentucky and Tennessee.

A grand jury has indicted 11 alleged "fake electors" who backed former President Trump falsely as having won the state of Arizona in 2020, charging them with conspiracy, fraud and forgery.

Michigan's J.J. McCarthy said he has "somewhat of an idea" where he could go in the 2024 NFL Draft, and he mentioned the New York Giants first before rattling off other teams.

Buckingham Palace has been accused of shading Meghan Markle with a new ad, promoting their strawberry preserves days after Markle debuted her strawberry jam.

Fox News' Laura Ingraham argues anti-Israel college protesters have "cover from the liberals who are running our colleges and universities."

A 41-year-old Florida man is accused of shooting the family dog in the head during a domestic dispute Monday night. The dog, Louie, is expected to recover.

Peyton Manning believes the New York Jets' coaching changes may have contributed to Zach Wilson's struggles, eventually leading to his trade to the Denver Broncos this week.

US Open champion Coco Gauff addressed the war in Gaza while speaking to TIME magazine in an article published Wednesday.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke on the Columbia University campus, calling for an end to anti-Israel protests that have turned violent at times and led to arrests.

Donald Trump argues presidents can't have the threat of prosecution hanging over them. But would that make them above the law?

A Marine from a helicopter training squadron stationed at Camp Pendleton died Tuesday night, military officials confirmed.

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.For the past couple of years, scientists have watched with growing concern as a massive outbreak of avian flu, also known as H5N1 bird flu, has swept through bird populations. Recently in the U.S., a farm worker and some cattle herds have been infected. I spoke with my colleague Katherine J. Wu, who covered the virus’s spread in North America, about the risk of human infection and how, for animals, this has already been “a pandemic many times over.”First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic: Welcome to the TikTok meltdown. The Republicans who want American carnage Columbia has resorted to pedagogy theater. Not a Five-Alarm FireLora Kelley: How does this bird-flu outbreak compare with previous ones?Katherine J. Wu: When we’re considering the toll on nonhuman animals, this is the largest, most deadly H5N1 outbreak that has been recorded in North America. It has been unfolding slowly for about two and a half years now, but it’s become a gargantuan wave at this point.Lora: Wow—how alarmed are you by that?Katherine: I’m medium concerned—and I have been medium concerned for a couple of years now. It’s difficult to gauge the amount of alarm to feel, because it’s so unprecedented. Still, most H5N1 outbreaks in the past have totally fizzled without much consequence, especially in this part of the world.I am worried because so many species have been getting sick. A huge number of wild birds have been infected, including species that haven’t been affected in the past. And we’ve seen these massive outbreaks in domesticated chickens, which are packed together in farms.Avian flu is known to be a bird problem. Beyond that, we’ve been seeing these outbreaks in mammals for a couple of years now, which is more concerning because, of course, we are also mammals. Humans seem to be potentially susceptible to infection, but at the same time, it would take quite a lot for this to become another big human-flu pandemic.Lora: Should we be concerned about getting sick?Katherine: People should be vigilant and paying attention to the news. But right now, as you and I are talking, there is still not a huge risk to people. You don’t get a pandemic unless you have a pathogen that spreads very, very easily among people, and there’s no evidence so far that this virus has mutated to that point.There have been some human cases globally so far, but it’s a very small number. They seem to have been cases where someone was highly exposed to the virus in domesticated animals. People got sick, but they didn’t pass it to someone else.I’m definitely not saying that person-to-person transmission can’t happen eventually, but there’s a pretty big chasm between someone getting infected and someone being able to efficiently pass the virus on. It is concerning that we continue to see more mammal species affected by H5N1, including species that have a lot of close contact with humans. But this is not a five-alarm fire so far.Lora: How will people’s lives be affected?Katherine: The virus has already affected our lives. Egg prices went completely bonkers in 2022 and early 2023, and over the course of this outbreak, more than 90 million domestic poultry have died. It’s not that all of those birds got sick—when this virus breaks out on chicken farms, it’s generally considered good practice to cull the chickens to halt the spread. Still, when you have that many chickens dying, egg prices are going to go up.We’re probably not on track to see that with cows anytime soon. Even though this virus has now been detected in dairy cows, they aren’t getting wildly sick, and transmission doesn’t seem as efficient. I don’t think we’re going to be in a situation where we’re killing all of our dairy cows and no one can get milk.Lora: The FDA announced yesterday that genetic evidence of this bird-flu virus had been found in samples of pasteurized milk. Is it still safe to drink milk?Katherine: So far, the answer is: generally, yes, if it’s been pasteurized. Pasteurization is a process by which milk is treated with heat so that it will kill a whole bunch of pathogens, including bacteria and viruses, and H5N1 is thought to be vulnerable to this. Also, researchers have been working to test cows so they can figure out which ones are sick. Only milk from healthy cows is authorized to enter the general food supply, though the trick will be finding all the cows that are actually infected. For now, the main ways that this virus will affect us will be indirect.Lora: Is there anything that can be done to curb the spread among wild animals?Katherine: For the animal world, this has already been a “pandemic” many times over. It has been truly devastating in that respect. So many wild birds, sea lions, seals, and other creatures have died, and it’s difficult to see how people can effectively intervene out in nature. There have been very few cases in which endangered animals have received vaccines because there’s a real possibility that their populations could be 100 percent wiped out by this virus.For most other animals in the wild, there’s not a lot that can be done, except for people to pay attention to where the virus is spreading. The hope is that most animal populations will be resilient enough to get through this and develop some form of immunity.Lora: Responses to COVID became very politicized. How might the aftermath of those mitigation measures shape how people respond to this virus, especially if it becomes a greater threat to humans?Katherine: We’re so fresh off the worst days of COVID that if people were asked to buckle down or get a new vaccine, I suspect that a lot of them would be like, Not again. There is still a lot of mitigation fatigue, and many people are sick of thinking about respiratory viruses and taking measures to prevent outbreaks. And, certainly, people have lost a lot of trust in public health over the past four years.That said, H5N1 is still a flu, and people are familiar with that type of virus. We have a long history of using flu vaccines, and the government has experience making a pandemic vaccine, keeping that stockpile, and getting it out to the public. That gives me hope that at least some people will be amenable to taking the necessary preventative measures, so any potential bird-flu outbreak among humans would not turn into COVID 2.0.Related: Bird flu leaves the world with an existential choice. Bird flu has never done this before. Today’s News President Joe Biden signed into law a bipartisan foreign-aid package that includes aid for Ukraine, Israel, and U.S. allies in the Indo-Pacific, and a measure that forces TikTok’s parent company to sell the social-media app or face an outright ban. The U.S. Supreme Court seems divided over whether a federal law can require hospitals to provide access to emergency abortions and override state-level abortion bans. George Santos, the embattled former New York representative facing multiple charges of fraud, ended his independent bid for a U.S. House seat on Long Island. Dispatches The Weekly Planet: Tesla is not the next Ford, Matteo Wong writes. It’s the next Con Ed. Explore all of our newsletters here.Evening Read Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani Why Did Cars Get So Expensive?By Annie Lowrey Inflation, finally, has cooled off. Prices have increased 2.5 percent over the past year, down from increases as high as 7 percent during the early pandemic. Rents are high but stabilizing. The cost of groceries is ticking up, not surging, and some goods, such as eggs, are actually getting cheaper. But American consumers are still stretching to afford one big-ticket item: their cars. The painful cost of vehicle ownership doesn’t just reflect strong demand driven by low unemployment, pandemic-related supply-chain weirdness, and high interest rates. It reflects how awful cars are for American households and American society as a whole. Read the full article.More From The Atlantic A Democrat’s case for saving Mike Johnson How baseball explains the limits of AI Culture Break Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: Ashok Kumar / Getty. Listen. Taylor Swift’s music often returns to the same motifs: pathetic fallacy, the passing of time, the mythology of love. Her latest album shows how these themes have calcified in her work, Sophie Gilbert writes.Look. Take a photo tour of several of Chile’s national parks, which protect many endangered species, wild landscapes, and natural wonders.Play our daily crossword.Stephanie Bai contributed to this newsletter.When you buy a book using a link in this newsletter, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic.

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Mike Trout inauguró un juego con un jonrón por primera vez desde 2012, y los Angelinos de Los Ángeles derrotaron el martes 7-4 a los Orioles de Baltimore, para cortar una seguidilla de cinco tropiezos.

Clarke and his late wife Tracy Hurley Martin bought the historic five-bedroom 178 Garfield Place pad for $4 million from fashion icon Lyons in 2012.

Despite publicly championing a statewide effort to plant more conifers, Lamont allegedly wanted a better view of a nearby pond from his lavish manse.

The Universal Studios tram ride is typically a slow-moving attraction through the backlot, but on Saturday it was involved in a crash when it hit a guardrail.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Wednesday that they will not be silent amid violent protests taking place at college campuses across the U.S.

Tammy Slaton is showing off her incredible weight loss in a new swimsuit photo. The “1000-Lb. Sisters” star shared a picture to Instagram of her and a friend sitting poolside with their feet in the water. Tammy lost 440 lbs after undergoing bariatric surgery in July 2022, and is now down to 285 lbs. Watch...

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Courteney Cox described the "very intense" moment Johnny McDaid broke up with her mid-therapy session. The "Friends" star said she "didn’t know it was coming."

Pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Southern California were forced to clear their tents by campus police Wednesday. CBS News Los Angeles reporter Luzdelia Caballero is following the protests.

It is the first time the American-Israeli-citizen, who was severely injured when Hamas attacked the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, has been shown alive since his capture.