The shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis was the fourth deadly shooting in the city in just more than 24 hours. In total, the string of violence has left at least five people dead and 25 injured, according to police.

Police officials said the first shooting happened just before 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, when a man stepped out of a vehicle near the Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in the Phillips neighborhood and fired about 30 rounds from a high-velocity .223 rifle at a group of people on a sidewalk. One person was killed and six others were injured. Two people accused of “assisting” in the shooting have been arrested, but the gunman remains at large, Chief Brian O’Hara of the Minneapolis Police said.

Later on Tuesday, around 8 p.m., a man in his 20s was found shot in the city’s Whittier neighborhood and subsequently died in a hospital, police said. A second man in his 20s was brought to a different hospital with gunshot wounds roughly 20 minutes later; his injuries were believed to be related to the same shooting, police said.

Authorities said the third shooting took place around 2 a.m. Wednesday in downtown Minneapolis, when someone “opened fire at close range” at a group of people on a sidewalk, killing one person and injuring another.

Around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, a gunman began firing through the windows at Annunciation Catholic Church during a Mass that was being celebrated midway through the first week of classes at the church’s school. Two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed and 17 other people, 14 of them children, were injured. The attacker then killed himself, police said.

In a statement after the three earlier shootings, O’Hara urged the public to come forward with information, saying that “the level of gun violence across the city within the last day is deeply unsettling.”

The latest outburst of violence comes after the Twin Cities area was rattled in June when a gunman assassinated a state lawmaker and her husband and left another lawmaker and his wife hospitalized with gunshot wounds, setting off a two-day search.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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By AMANDA SEITZ

Rural hospitals are preparing to lose billions of dollars from President Donald Trump’s signature tax and spending cut bill signed into law this summer.

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Dozens, already on the brink, have warned they face the prospect of closure or reduced services because of the bill’s cuts to Medicaid, which is funded by federal and state governments and provides health care coverage for the poorest Americans.

At a cabinet meeting on Tuesday celebrating working Americans, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asserted that a historic “ infusion of cash ” is on the way for rural hospitals throughout the country.

“Right now we spend 7% of Medicaid dollars on rural hospitals,” he said. “They’re getting the short end of the stick.” To address that, he said a new fund — established in the legislation — will give rural hospitals an extra $10 billion every year.

Here’s a look at the facts.

THE CLAIM: Kennedy, speaking about the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”: “Under the rural transformation program, we give them an extra $10 billion a year. We’re raising an infusion of cash, rural hospitals and rural communities, by 50%. It’s going to be the biggest infusion in history and it’s going to restore and revitalize these communities.”

THE FACTS: There’s more to that nearly 900-page bill than Kennedy let on at the White House.

It’s true that Republicans established a new fund that will set aside $10 billion every year for rural hospitals, providers and clinics. But they did that to offset significant cuts that rural hospitals are expected to endure as a result of the legislation, which also slashes $1.2 trillion from the federal budget over the next decade, primarily from Medicaid.

Roughly 10 million people are expected to lose health insurance from the legislation. Most people will lose Medicaid.

That will leave many hospitals with patients who can’t afford to pay for emergency services. The changes are expected to hit rural areas, where as many as 1 in 4 Americans rely on Medicaid to pay for health insurance, particularly hard.

Estimates have suggested that rural hospitals, in particular, could lose between $58 billion and $137 billion over the next decade because of the bill’s provisions. As many as 300 rural hospitals were at risk for closure because of the GOP’s bill, according to an analysis by The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Rural Health Transformation Program established in the law is supposed to prevent those closures. It sets aside $10 billion annually from 2026 to 2030.

Hospitals and health industry experts have warned that while the fund throws a lifeline to rural hospitals, it won’t save them all.

“This certainly wouldn’t offset that entirely,” Washington University health policy analyst Timothy McBride said of the fund.

Then there’s the matter of how hospitals will actually access the funds. Half of the $50 billion will be divided equally among all states. The other half will be divided based on a formula, developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, that examines a state’s rural population and the number of low-income people it serves.

Dividing some of the funds equally among states, however, will ultimately give some states, even those that have few rural hospitals, the same amount of money as those states that have a significant number of rural hospitals.

“They all have needs, but at least half of the funds are going to be distributed equally, which doesn’t make sense,” McBride said. “Some states don’t have very many, and others have a lot.”

A spokesperson for Kennedy did not respond to a request for comment.

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As recently as a year ago, if you were being recruited to play basketball at the University of St. Thomas and you wanted to see the weight room, you might be met by a blank stare. Johnny Tauer, who has coached the Tommies men’s hoops program for more than a decade, admitted that in the past, recruits would have to ask three times before they were allowed to see the weight room, which one alumnus jokingly compared to a broom closet in size.

On Wednesday, as members of the media got their first peek inside Lee and Penny Anderson Arena, the $183 million new home for the Tommies men’s and women’s basketball programs and men’s and women’s hockey programs, Tauer practically beamed when talking about all he and his program can offer those who want to dibble, pass and shoot for St. Thomas in the future.

Members of the Twin Cities media were given a first look at Anderson Arena on the University of St. Thomas campus in St. Paul Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. (Jess Myers / Pioneer Press)

“We have a standard of excellence on the court, and when you look at this place, I think it’s something that’s going to be really inspiring and also a place that people want to gather,” said Tauer, as the one-hour tour concluded with remarks by four of the school’s coaches. “It’s going to be an electric atmosphere, whether it’s basketball or hockey, or the other events we hold here. It kind of gives me chills, honestly.”

The 253,000-square-foot building is still awash in bare concrete, plastic sheeting held up with masking tape and stacks of purple seats waiting to be installed, but all of that will change in less than two months. The building is slated for an official opener on Friday, Oct. 24, when the Tommies women’s and men’s hockey teams host Providence in their first-ever on-campus games.

Atmosphere matters

The Tommies have played men’s hockey off-campus for decades at the State Fairgrounds Coliseum and more recently at the 900-seat St. Thomas Ice Arena in Mendota Heights, on the campus of St. Thomas Academy prep school. The move to the new rink, located near the corner of Grand and Cretin on the south side of the university, comes after at least two other off-campus locations were considered.

St. Thomas had discussions about buying the property of the Town & County Club, a private golf course a bit north of the campus, and had discussed the construction of an athletic facility at Highland Bridge, the site of the former Ford Motors plant south of campus. When Lee and Penny Anderson offered a $75 million gift to the school to build on-campus, it became an easy decision.

Anderson Arena will seat 5,300 for men’s and women’s basketball and 4,000 for men’s and women’s hockey. As viewed on Wednesday, it was laid out as a rink, with hockey boards and plexiglass set up, but without ice installed. St. Thomas athletics director Dr. Phil Esten stressed the work that was done to make a multi-purpose facility feel hockey-specific or basketball-specific depending on which team calls it their home on any given night.

Media tour the Anderson Arena on the University of St. Thomas campus in St. Paul Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. (Jess Myers / Pioneer Press)

“As we designed it, I think you’ll see once we open that when it’s set up for hockey, it should feel like a hockey arena, and when it’s set up for basketball it should feel like a basketball arena,” said Esten, who opened his remarks by offering thoughts and prayers to those affected by the mass shooting in Minneapolis earlier in the day.

The tour included a look inside the locker rooms for hockey and basketball, which are state-of-the-art including players’ lounges, study areas, a full athlete nutrition area, a well-equipped sports medicine center and the weight room that Tauer is happy to show off to prospective future Tommies. The facility includes a full size practice hockey rink with seating for 700 and separate practice courts for the men’s and women’s hockey teams. The Tommies soccer and softball programs also will be housed in the building.

Neighborhood critics

Long before official plans were in the works for the arena, some members of the surrounding neighborhood were organized in opposition to what they perceive as a traffic and parking headache on dozens of nights per year. While most of their efforts to delay the project have been rebuffed, the attorney for Advocates for Responsible Development, Dan Kennedy, said that they are not done fighting.

In an email to the Pioneer Press, Kennedy noted that following the St. Paul City Council’s approval of the site plan, the group filed a lawsuit challenging that approval and they expect a ruling from judge Steven Smith of the Ramsey County District Court sometime in early October. Specifically, they note that the maximum building height allowed by the city’s zoning is 39 feet, and the arena is 75 feet tall in some places.

Building height is just one concern according to neighborhood activists. In an email to the Pioneer Press, one member of Advocates for Responsible Development, who asked not to be named, said there have already been negative consequences around the arena.

“The full impacts of the arena are yet to be felt. However, even construction has been disruptive, dirty and traffic tangling,” they wrote. “(St. Thomas) has not provided adequate on-site parking for event attendees, depending instead on neighborhood street parking to accommodate attendees. I’m sure on campus students will attend, but they will be the minority.”

There is a parking ramp with a 900-car capacity adjacent to the arena, and another parking facility on campus. Esten said the school has worked with the neighborhood in an effort to make getting to and from the arena a smooth process, and to lessen the impact on the surrounding community.

“I feel really good about the plan we have in place from a traffic management standpoint and from a parking management standpoint,” Esten said.

The first games for the four main tenants are Oct. 24 for women’s and men’s hockey versus Providence and Nov. 8 for women’s and men’s basketball versus Army.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The director of the nation’s top public health agency is out after less than one month in the job, U.S. officials announced Wednesday.

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“Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We thank her for her dedicated service to the American people,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wrote in a statement posted on social media.

HHS officials did not explain why Monarez is no longer with the agency.

Before the announcement was made, Monarez told The Associated Press: “I can’t comment.”

The Washington Post first reported she was ousted, citing unnamed sources within the Trump administration.

Monarez, 50, was the agency’s 21st director and the first to pass through Senate confirmation following a 2023 law. She was named acting director in January and then tapped as the nominee in March after Trump abruptly withdrew his first choice, David Weldon.

She was sworn in on July 31 — less than a month ago, making her the shortest-serving CDC director in the history of the 79-year-old agency.

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