Two people are dead and two more were wounded after a shooting at a Walmart in Southaven, according to DeSoto County Sheriff Bill Rasco. [...]
A police officer and the suspect were shot and wounded in addition to the two people killed.
The organizations that should have protected young female gymnasts from sexual abuse by former Olympic gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, including the U.S. Olympic Committee and the FBI, "fundamentally failed" to do so for years, according to a new congressional report.
In an interview with NBC News, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., the ranking member of the Senate subcommittee overseeing the Olympics, described the actions of the organizations as a "cover up."
Amid an intense national furor over the fairness of college admissions, the Education Department is looking into a tactic that has been used in some suburbs here, in which wealthy parents transfer legal guardianship of their college-bound children to relatives or friends so the teens can claim financial aid, say people familiar with the matter. [...]
That has led to awards of scholarships and access to federal financial aid designed for the poor, these people said.
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