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A Washington man allegedly helped finance and planned to livestream February’s Canadian school shooting, while Anduril commits $3.7 billion to a Baltimore submarine shipyard. Elsewhere, a former CIA official admits a $194 million fraud, France draws 250,000 protesters, and Paramount-Warner Bros. closes its blockbuster merger.

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Federal prosecutors charged a 30-year-old Bellingham, Washington, resident with conspiring to commit murder abroad, alleging James Cody Bryant encouraged February's deadly school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. Authorities say Bryant offered advice, sent money and agreed to livestream the attack, and Acting U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd called the foreign-murder conspiracy count a "novel" charge.

The shooter killed her mother and stepbrother before attacking a school, killing five children ages 12 and 13 and an educational assistant while wounding 25 others. "Without Bryant's misplaced loyalty and willingness to operate the livestream, we don't ultimately know if the shooter would have gone through with the crime," said the FBI's Herrington.

Defense contractor Anduril won an up to $2.9 billion Navy contract Tuesday to speed submarine production and pledged $3.7 billion for a new shipyard near Baltimore. At the former Bethlehem Steel site, President Trump touted the investment as "a big component for our future military," while Maryland Gov. Wes Moore did not attend.

The 2 million-square-foot facility will build Virginia-class submarine components, start operations in 2030 and create about 3,100 direct jobs, with several thousand more indirect positions expected. The deal lands days after the Pentagon named co-founder Palmer Luckey to a task force, though chief technology officer Emil Michael said there's "really nothing to see here."

David Rush, a former CIA official, pleaded guilty Tuesday to wire fraud after inventing fake programs to acquire Florida luxury properties and over $40 million in gold bars. Under the plea deal a federal judge approved, Rush must pay nearly $200 million in restitution, and he also admitted providing secrets to a foreign government.

The Justice Department says the fraud cost the government about $194 million, with roughly $145 million routed through a holding company to buy four luxury Florida properties. Rush, 49, of Ashburn, Virginia, faces up to 20 years in prison on the single wire fraud count, with sentencing set for Jan. 28 in Alexandria.

More than a quarter million people rallied across France Tuesday as police fired tear gas in Paris and other cities, with students blockading high schools to demand more education funding.

Germany's far-right AfD won a speakership as Tobias Rausch was elected Saxony-Anhalt's parliament speaker, the first time since World War II a far-right party has secured that post.

Government-allied forces pushed deeper into Ethiopia's Tigray, backed by drone strikes, a commander said, as markets reopened in Mekelle after the Tigray People's Liberation Front withdrew from the regional capital.

Federal student loan borrowers now have until Dec. 31 to enroll in autopay and cut their rate by one percentage point after the Education Department extended the Sept. 30 deadline.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, 76, plans to remain on the court through at least next summer, ruling out a lame-duck retirement even if Democrats win the Senate in November.

Flu season may be starting early, with positive influenza tests running unusually high on the US West Coast, prompting one Johns Hopkins epidemiologist to consider getting vaccinated right away.

The S&P 500 set a record Tuesday, climbing 0.6% to close at 7,818.93, led partly by Constellation Energy after it announced a long-term deal supplying power to Google.

British Airways is ripping out coach seats to fit 106 business-class suites with sliding doors across the A380's upper deck, a cabin the airline calls the world's largest.

The US trade deficit widened sharply to $105.6 billion in August as imports swelled 4.3%, the steepest gap since March 2025, just before last year's "liberation day" tariff announcement.

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The World Health Organization asked Russia for more information on a worker's death at a Siberian plague lab, though Russian officials say all her contacts tested negative for pneumonic plague.

Finnish authorities ordered a halt to work on two Google data centers over clearing more than 300 hectares of forest, after one site skipped a mandatory environmental assessment.

Online fashion retailer Asos told customers to ignore an unauthorized push notification sent Tuesday by apparent hackers claiming they had "fully compromised" its Snowflake instance and threatening to leak it.

Eagles All-Pro right tackle Lane Johnson announced his retirement after 14 seasons, saying his priorities had changed and it is critical he focus on his mental health.

Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is nursing a sprained ankle that may sideline him Sunday against Atlanta, sources said, though the injury is not considered long-term and should not require surgery.

Harry Kane earned a record-tying 125th England cap against Czechia at Wembley on Tuesday, scoring on the night he matched former goalkeeper Peter Shilton's men's appearance record.

Hollywood legend Eva Marie Saint, the oldest living Oscar winner, died Tuesday at 102, remembered for her "On the Waterfront" win and her turn in Hitchcock's "North by Northwest."

The Emmy Awards are leaving broadcast TV through a six-year Amazon Prime Video deal starting in 2027, replacing the network rotation with a free global stream needing no subscription.

The axe Jack Nicholson swung in "The Shining" joins a Bonhams auction of Stanley Kubrick's personal archive, alongside the "2001" Star Child prop expected to fetch up to $1.06 million.

What it is: Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery completed their merger into Skydance Tuesday, putting HBO Max, Paramount+, CBS, CNN and franchises from Harry Potter to Yellowstone under one corporate roof. The company starts with about $80 billion in debt, and Fitch downgraded its rating to BB on Monday, citing materially higher leverage and significant integration risks.

The detail: Analysts expect streaming prices to rise as HBO Max and Paramount+ move toward a bundle, with Forrester's Mike Proulx calling it "far-fetched" to think that prevents "downstream price hikes."

Under a settlement with states, the studio must release 30 films a year for two years and 32 annually for three more, including at least four independent films each year. Ellison and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz acknowledged layoffs in a Day 1 memo to company staff, writing that "integrating two companies will bring change, including difficult decisions that affect our workforce."

Why it matters: A Los Angeles County report estimated the merger could eliminate about 4,500 film and TV jobs over three years, hitting a region that has already lost roughly 50,000 since 2022. It also brings CBS News and CNN under one owner, with CNN's Mark Thompson and CBS's Bari Weiss staying on under a newly created editorial independence board.

What to watch: Watch for the first HBO Max and Paramount+ bundle and its price, plus how deep the layoffs run as Skydance chases more than $6 billion in annualized cost savings. Also watch whether theaters see fewer films once the five-year release quota expires, since Disney's 2019 Fox buyout cut that studio's slate from 12-17 films to three to six.

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A Nova Scotia carpenter renovating a Dartmouth home found a wallet lost 51 years earlier, holding a $1.50 ticket to a 1975 "Hamlet" its owner can't recall attending.

A roughly 3.8-ton Canadian Coast Guard buoy washed ashore on Ireland's Achill Island after crossing the Atlantic, its owners noting their buoys are "very friendly" and sometimes wander far.

A kangaroo escaped a Missouri petting zoo after a child left a gate open, then spent a day on the loose before police and a bystander wrangled it.

Gerald Ford insists in a presidential debate that there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe (1976) · Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit the White House (1979) · Michael Jordan announces his first retirement from the NBA (1993) · Astronomers announce the first planet found orbiting a sun-like star (1995)

"It gives me great joy to be the first Pope in history to come to the capital of this nation." — Pope John Paul II, at the White House, 1979

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