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An Erie gunman killed eight people, including two children and a pregnant woman, while Trump considers televising the Fort Hood killer's December 3 execution. Meanwhile, Putin carries Tehran's latest peace proposal to Washington, Panama faces damage from twin earthquakes, and eight tech firms lose green card sponsorship privileges.

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A 45-year-old gunman killed eight people in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Friday, including two young children and a pregnant woman, before police found him dead. Video showed the two women killed outside, aged 51 and 37, trying to get help from neighbors before the gunman emerged.

Chief Rick Lorah said the gunman was related to seven victims, the eighth a friend of the pregnant woman, adding "mental health is at play here." "I have not seen anything like this in my 28-plus years," Lorah said, as Gov. Josh Shapiro offered Erie his administration's full support.

President Trump said Saturday he is still deciding whether to livestream the Dec. 3 firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 at Fort Hood in 2009. Marking World Day Against the Death Penalty, Pope Leo XIV declared capital punishment "inadmissible" hours after his top deputy called the planned U.S. public execution "unacceptable."

Hasan would be the first executed by a military firing squad since 1945, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's livestream plan drew bipartisan criticism. Rep. Austin Scott, a Georgia Republican, said "live-streaming executions is what jihadists do," while Vice President JD Vance said he won't watch.

Russian President Vladimir Putin passed Tehran's vision for ending the Iran war to President Trump, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russia's Interfax news agency Saturday. Peskov said the message came in agreement with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, whom Putin met at a summit in Turkmenistan before reportedly phoning Trump.

Interfax gave no details of Iran's terms, and the White House did not confirm the call in a war that began Feb. 28 with U.S.-Israeli airstrikes. An interim June deal to pause hostilities quickly collapsed, and Iran has stepped up near-daily attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

Panama declared a state of emergency Saturday after magnitude 7.7 and 6.6 earthquakes damaged roughly 420 homes and as many public schools, leaving 27 people injured but no deaths reported.

A paramilitary drone strike in Sudan killed 41 people near Ethiopian border, hitting a camp for displaced people in Blue Nile state, with most casualties reportedly women and children.

Hurricane Simon, a Category 4, is crawling toward Mexico's southwestern coast with 150-mph winds and could dump up to 30 inches of rain on parts of Michoacán, Colima and Jalisco.

A 10-year Philadelphia police veteran, Officer Shane Seiber, was shot and killed Saturday answering a report of a man with a gun, and 35-year-old Eric Lewis faces a homicide charge.

Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee's execution attempt, has been discharged and returned to prison, her attorneys said Saturday, ten days after two doses of pentobarbital failed to kill her.

The Kennedy Center has named talent manager Rick Canny, who has worked with ZZ Top, as its new artistic director despite staff complaints about his business practices as a consultant.

Microsoft drew Vice President JD Vance's fire over H-1B hiring after its 2025 layoffs, though federal data show two in three of its 6,258 approvals went to existing employees.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management sees a once in a generation opportunity in high-quality bonds, with portfolio manager Priya Misra saying investors can still earn 6.5% yields without lowering credit quality.

The College Football Playoff and ESPN are still negotiating over a 24-team field after an exclusive window closed, with ESPN's new six-season deal already worth $7.8 billion.

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Colossal Biosciences, maker of the dire wolf pups, is working to engineer the dodo, the Tasmanian tiger and the moa, and CEO Ben Lamm expects more revivals within two years.

The World Health Organization still doesn't know what killed a young Russian lab worker, though unconfirmed reports pointed to pneumonic plague and Russia found no dangerous pathogens in 5,500-plus tests.

King Charles III warned that "malicious actors" are evolving their tactics with automated technologies in a letter marking the 10th anniversary of Britain's National Cyber Security Centre.

The Arizona Cardinals are finalizing a deal to trade receiver Marvin Harrison Jr., with Houston in the mix, which would reunite him with his college quarterback C.J. Stroud.

Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin is out for the season after injuring his right knee Friday in Washington, jamming his skate into the post during a 3-1 loss to the Capitals.

Portugal's football federation has suspended Cristiano Ronaldo for walking out on the national team after the 41-year-old clashed with new coach Jorge Jesus over his limited Nations League minutes.

Scarlett Johansson plays a New York detective in the trailer for The Exorcist: Martyrs, investigating religious-themed murders thirteen years after she ended the reign of a satanic serial killer.

Willem Dafoe plays expedition leader John Hunt in the Everest climbing drama Tenzing, and the 71-year-old told UPI that sandwiches carried up the mountain froze within an hour.

Researchers from Purdue and an archaeology institute are sailing to remote Nikumaroro Island to inspect the "Taraia Object," which they think could be wreckage from Amelia Earhart's 1937 plane.

What it is: The Trump administration on Thursday suspended eight tech companies from sponsoring foreign workers for green cards, which grant immigrants permanent residency, through the Labor Department's PERM program. The move does not affect H-1Bs, which are temporary work permits, but all eight rank among the top 50 H-1B sponsors, and most are IT services firms.

The detail: Vice President JD Vance singled out Microsoft, claiming it replaced the 6,000 workers it laid off in 2025 with H-1B hires, calling it "a great American company." Federal data show Microsoft received 6,258 H-1B approvals last year, but two in three went to people already working there rather than workers new to the company.

Why it matters: Trump supporters have long argued these visa programs undercut American workers by encouraging employers to hire from abroad, and the crackdown has now reached beyond tech. At the same Thursday news conference, the Labor Department's inspector general, Anthony D'Esposito, announced an investigation into alleged J-1 visa fraud involving nine major American universities.

What to watch: Amazon, the top sponsor with 19,178 approvals, brought in nearly four times as many H-1B workers new to the company as Microsoft, yet was left off the list. Watch how the J-1 probe into nine major universities unfolds, and whether the Labor Department adds other large H-1B sponsors to its green card suspension list.

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Norman Reedus called the final week of filming The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon "super-weird," and the fourth and final season, billed as "one last journey," premieres in February.

Nebraska led No. 7 Indiana 17-6 in the fourth quarter, then lost its 31st straight game against a Top 25 opponent after a fourth-and-1 flip became a 44-yard touchdown.

Logan Paul paid $5.3 million plus a trade for a 1998 Pikachu Illustrator Pokémon card, then sold it this year for $16.5 million, topping a Mickey Mantle card's $12.6 million.

Griswold Lorillard fashions the first men's tuxedo in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. (1886) · A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed in aviation's first proven sabotage case (1933) · Angela Merkel becomes Germany's first female chancellor (2005) · Malala Yousafzai becomes the youngest Nobel laureate in history (2014) · Hurricane Michael slams Mexico Beach, Fla., as a Category 5 storm (2018) · Iga Świątek wins Poland's first major singles title (2020)

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