Shooter attacked CDC headquarters to protest COVID-19 vaccines

ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says the man who fired more than 180 shots with a long gun at the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wanted to send a message against COVID-19 vaccines. GBI Director Chris Hosey said 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White also recently verbalized thoughts of suicide, before he broke into his father’s gun safe. White fatally shot DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose during the attack. CDC Director Susan Monarez told staff at the agency’s headquarters on Tuesday that “misinformation can be dangerous” and called for “rational, evidence-based discourse spoken with compassion and understanding.”

Texas Republicans plan another special session to deliver Trump more GOP congressional seats

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republican leaders say they’re prepared to end their stalemated legislative special session and immediately begin another standoff with Democrats in the GOP’s efforts to redraw congressional maps as directed by President Donald Trump. Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows confirmed the plans Tuesday during a brief session that marked another failure to meet the required attendance standards. Dozens of Democrats have left the state and left the GOP majority unable to move forward with its gerrymandering attempt. Burrows said lawmakers will not reconvene again until Friday. If Democrats are still absent, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said he will end the current session and will call another.

Trump’s takeover of Washington law enforcement begins

WASHINGTON (AP) — The new picture of law enforcement in the nation’s capital began taking shape Tuesday as some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by the Trump administration began arriving as police and federal officials took the first steps in an uneasy partnership to reduce crime in what President Donald Trump called — without substantiation — a lawless city. The influx came the morning after the Republican president announced he would be activating the guard members and taking over the District’s police department. He cited a crime emergency — but referred to the same crime that city officials stress is already falling noticeably.

Video shows steel workers scrambling into wreckage left by explosion that killed 2 in Pa.

CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) — After an explosion rocked a steel plant outside Pittsburgh, workers scrambled into the wreckage alongside firefighters directing streams of water. By the time the scene was secure, two people were dead and more than 10 others were injured, including one who spent hours trapped in rubble left Monday by the blast that was powerful enough to shake nearby homes. Video from Pittsburgh television station WTAE showed workers in orange jumpsuits and hardhats running toward the wreckage at the U.S. Steel coking plant in Clairton. Investigators were working Tuesday to determine the cause of the blast, which jolted a region of the state synonymous with steel for more than a century.