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Two people are dead and three others are injured following a workplace shooting in Chester, Pennsylvania.

The incident occurred at around 8.30am on Wednesday at Delaware County Linen, a family-owned linen business located approximately 30 minutes away from Philadelphia.

The Delaware county district attorney, Jack Stollsteimer, said at a press conference on Wednesday: “A disgruntled employee has walked into a linen shop … and shot five people, five co-workers,” per NBC 10. Stollsteimer added that the shooting occurred inside and outside the business and that a handgun was used.

A suspect was arrested in Trainer, a city near Chester and was taken into custody, the Chester police commissioner, Steven Gretsky, said. Police said the suspect attempted to flee the scene in a black Hyundai but was stopped by a police officer. The suspect has not been publicly identified by authorities.

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The fireworks came shortly after the prosecution rested its case in Trump's historic hush money criminal trial.

Lawyer Robert Costello muttered "Geez!" after Merchan sustained several prosecution objections to his testimony. When Merchan confronted Costello about his breach of basic courtroom decorum, Costello told the court stenographer to "strike it" from the record − something only the judge has the power to do.

Merchan excused the jurors and began scolding Costello, a former federal prosecutor and veteran defense attorney, and then asked: "Are you staring me down right now?" The judge then ordered the entire courtroom cleared for a short time.

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The wave of book bans sweeping the US, typically reserved for works of fiction deemed controversial, has hit textbooks used in public schools, marking the next step in Republicans’ war on education.

The board of trustees for the Cypress Fairbanks independent school district in Houston voted 6-1 earlier this month to redact certain chapters in science textbooks, including those about vaccines, human growth, diversity, and climate change.

The motion to remove the chapters was made by the board’s vice-president Natalie Blasingame and almost unanimously supported.

Blasingame, who has served on the board since 2021, did not give a specific explanation for the decision, but said the subjects go beyond what the state requires to teach and creates “a perception that humans are bad”.

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Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin has vetoed two bills that would have stripped tax exemptions for the United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization that has opposed the removal of statues of southern state generals during the US civil war and other markers of the southern states’ attempt to secede from the Union in defense of slavery.

The Republican governor vetoed several measures, including those related to maintaining access to contraception, saying in a statement they were “not ready to become law”.