WASHINGTON (AP) — Two staff members of the Israeli embassy were shot and killed Wednesday evening while leaving an event at a Jewish museum in the nation’s capital, and the suspect yelled “free, free Palestine” after he was arrested, police said.

The two victims, a man and a woman, were leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum when the 30-year-old suspect approached a group of four people and opened fire, Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith said at a news conference.

The suspect was observed pacing outside the museum before the shooting, walked into the museum after the shooting and was detained by event security, Smith said.

When he was taken into custody, the man began chanting, “free, free Palestine,” Smith said.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi said she was at the scene with former judge Jeanine Pirro, who serves as the U.S. attorney in Washington.

Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, called the shooting a “depraved act of anti-Semitic terrorism.”

“We are confident that the US authorities will take strong action against those responsible for this criminal act,” Danon said in a post on X. “Israel will continue to act resolutely to protect its citizens and representatives — everywhere in the world.”

The largest of the three wildfires burning in northeastern Minnesota was likely caused by people.

In an update Wednesday,  the U.S. Forest Service’s Eastern Area Incident Management Team said the initial investigation into the nearly 17,000-acre Jenkins Creek Fire, which started May 12, shows “the fire is related to a human cause.” The update offered no other details but said the investigation is ongoing. The fire southeast of Hoyt Lakes was rated as 13% contained.

The causes of the 12,000-acre Camp House Fire and 1,259-acre Munger Shaw Fire remain “undetermined,” according to the Wildfire Incident Information System. The Camp House blaze broke out May 11 near Brimson and the Munger Shaw started May 12 near Cotton.

Meanwhile, several evacuation orders are being lifted.

In St. Louis County, 13 evacuation zones in “go” status were improved to “set” status Tuesday, the sheriff’s office reported on Facebook.

St. Louis County Highway 33 and County Road 110/Forest Highway 11 also reopened to traffic at 8 a.m. Wednesday.

“Property owners are urged to take extra caution in the area,” the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post Tuesday night. “Be aware that the burned areas may still show smoke from various stumps and debris — this is not of concern when inside the already burned area. However, if smoke or flames are found outside the already burned area or anywhere it is clearly a hazard, please call 911.”

In Lake County, the only active evacuation zone remaining is the Murphy Lake Road area, Matt Pollmann, the county’s emergency management director, said in a Facebook video Tuesday night.

“Containment is over 40%, so they are feeling confident with the Camp House Fire,” he said.

Significant progress was made in containing the perimeter of the Camp House Fire to 73%, the Eastern Area Complex Incident Management Team reported Wednesday morning.

Cooler, wetter weather has helped firefighters. The blazes started during a period of critical wildfire weather.

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Gov. Tim Walz signed a compact Tuesday that outlines how the state of Minnesota and the White Earth Nation will work together to regulate the sale of cannabis.

The agreement clears the way for White Earth’s cannabis products company Waabigwan Mashkiki to open an off-reservation dispensary for cannabis products in Moorhead, which could happen as soon as this weekend.

That’s according to Zach Wilson, CEO of Waabigwan Mashkiki, which means medicine flower in Ojibwe.

“We are essentially able to go live statewide,” Wilson said Tuesday after the signing of the compact was announced.

In addition to Moorhead, the tribe said it would be opening a dispensary in St. Cloud as well.

The compact Walz signed was the first tribal-state compact authorized under Minnesota’s 2023 cannabis law.

The agreement outlines how the state and tribe will promote a cooperative and mutually beneficial relationship to regulate cannabis and promote public health and safety.

Items the dispensary is expected to sell include cannabis flower — the smokable buds plucked from a flowering marijuana plant — and pre-rolled cannabis cigarettes.

In setting up the dispensary, the tribe installed extraction equipment that will take cannabis biomass and turn it into CBD oils, tinctures and other desired cannabis compounds. Some of those compounds can be used to make cannabis gummies, cannabis distillates for vaping cartridges and live resins.

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Napheesa Collier scored 28 points, including four clutch free throws late in the final minute, and the Minnesota Lynx held off the Dallas Wings 85-81 on Wednesday.

Courtney Williams and Alanna Smith each added 13 points in front of a home opener crowd of 12,772 after the Lynx beat Dallas 99-84 in the opener for both teams on Friday.

For the third straight game, Minnesota (3-0) had 27 assists. Just one Minnesota basket did not come with a helper. The Lynx shot 47.5% from the field after combining for 50.4% in its first two wins.

Arike Ogunbowale led 0-3 Dallas with 21 points. Paige Bueckers, the former Hopkins High School standout and top pick in this year’s WNBA Draft, had 12 on 3-of-11 shooting.

Routinely up by eight or nine points in the second and third quarters, the Lynx could not put away the Wings.

Minnesota led by a game-high 11 points, 63-52, with less than three minutes to play in the third quarter, but Dallas cut the lead to 76-73 on a 3-pointers by Ogunbowale and DiJonai Carrington with 3:41 left in the fourth.

Minnesota missed six of its first eight shots and four of its first six free throws in the frame.

But Williams made a long jumper, Smith had a block, Williams added a pair of free throws, and Natisha Hiedeman one for an 81-73 Lynx lead with 1:32 left.

A 3-point play by Myisha Hines-Allen got the Wings within five. The Lynx committed a 5-second violation on the inbounds play, and Hines-Allen made two free throws with 1:15 left.

Minnesota committed 19 turnovers.

Collier pushed the lead back to five with a couple free throws, but a 3 from Ogunbowale made it a two-point game with 39 seconds left.

Williams grabbed an offensive rebound, Collier made two free throws with 17.5 seconds left and the Lynx could exhale.

Down 15-5 early, coach Cheryl Reeve called the first Lynx timeout. Perhaps a well-timed wake-up call because the Lynx took over at both ends of the court, outscoring the Wings 16-3 over the final six minutes of the quarter for a 21-18 lead. Dallas made six of its first seven shots, but only one of its next 12.

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