Minneapolis gunman's hate-filled manifesto, Border Patrol arrests firefighters: Unbiased Updates, Aug. 29, 2025
Aug 29, 2025
A look into the Minneapolis gunman's hate-filled manifesto. Also, Border Patrol agents arrest two firefighters battling Washington's blaze.
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This morning, chilling new revelations. The Minneapolis gunman obsessed with killing children and idolizing mass murderers
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Plus, a new director named at the CDC, but the fired leader says she's still in charge
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And put down your hose. Border agents yanked two firefighters off the front lines. The backlash burning hot this morning
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the stories that matter clear and credible from across the country to around the world
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these are your unbiased updates from straight arrow news good morning i'm craig degrelli this morning we're learning more about the shooter who killed
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two students and wounded more than a dozen others at a catholic school mass in minneapolis
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authorities identified the gunman as 23 year old robin westman a former student at annunciation
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Catholic school. Investigators say he was obsessed with the idea of killing children
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They've uncovered hundreds of pages of writings in which Westman expressed hate toward, quote
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almost every group imaginable, including black, Mexican, Christian and Jewish communities, even President Donald Trump. There appears to be only one group that the shooter didn't hate
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One group of people who the shooter admired. The group were the school shooters and mass murderers that are notorious in this country
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The shooter idolized some of the most notorious school shooters and mass murderers in our country's history
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Investigators say Westman wanted to kill defenseless children and, quote, watch them suffer
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But despite the writings, authorities say a clear motive for the attack remains uncertain
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Nine of the victims are still in the hospital, one child in critical condition
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The community is coming together to grieve. Mourners placing flowers and teddy bears at a memorial outside Annunciation Catholic Church One child seen embracing an adult after laying down a bloom Also worth noting this morning the gunman mother Mary Grace Westman
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who used to work at the school, has hired a high-profile attorney and, according to the Minneapolis chief, is refusing to talk to police
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This morning, the CDC has a new acting director after the White House fired Susan Menares just weeks into her new job
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The Trump administration has tapped Jim O'Neill, a top deputy to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr
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O'Neill will keep his post at HHS while running the CDC, a move that gives Kennedy even more influence over federal vaccine policy
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The shakeup has already rattled the agency. Four top officials resigned after Menardus got ousted
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And staffers gathered outside the CDC in Atlanta Thursday to say goodbye
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A somber clap out to see them off. This is unprecedented. There has never been a CDC director fired
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And it appears that she was fired for standing up, for saying things that are true
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What we're seeing is an assault. It's an assault on science. It's an assault on CDC
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And it is making Americans less safe. On Capitol Hill, Senator Bill Cassidy, who chairs the health committee
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is calling for next month's vaccine advisory meeting to be postponed, warning any decisions made amid this turmoil would lack legitimacy. Kennedy defended the shakeup
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There's a lot of trouble at CDC, and it's going to require getting rid of some people
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over the long term in order for us to change the institutional culture
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and bring back pride and self-esteem and make that agency the stellar agency that it's always been
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Meanwhile, lawyers for Menardes insist she's still the legal director, arguing that only the president can remove her That sets up a possible legal fight even as O takes over Lawyers for a man at the center of a high immigration case want the judge to
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gag the government. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a father from El Salvador living in Maryland
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is in custody facing federal human smuggling charges. But his attorneys say the Trump
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administration's constant name-calling is jeopardizing his right to a fair trial. This week, after he reported to jail in Baltimore, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blasted him online
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calling him an illegal alien, gang member, human trafficker, domestic abuser, and child predator
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President Trump has previously referred to him as an animal. His lawyers say those claims are baseless, and the public attacks are meant to vilify their client before he ever sees a jury
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They argue it risks, quote, prejudicing the proceedings and want the judge to shut it down
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In Washington state, controversy is flaring on top of a raging wildfire
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Two firefighters were arrested by Border Patrol while battling the state's biggest act of blaze
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The Bear Gulch fire has burned nearly 9,000 acres in the Olympic National Forest
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Border agents confirm they detained two crew members after verifying identities on site
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saying, quote, several discrepancies were identified and two individuals were found to be present in the U.S. illegally
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one with a previous order of removal. Other crew members said they were shocked to see arrests
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in the middle of an active fire response. Federal officials insist the operation did not interrupt
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firefighting efforts, but Senator Patty Murray blasted the move, writing, Trump has undercut our wildland firefighting abilities in more ways than one to now apparently
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detaining firefighters on the job. This administration's immigration policy is fundamentally sick. We'll call it Fight Club Senate edition. Mexico's upper chamber turned
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into mayhem and a brawl hall after a heated debate over drug cartels and whether the United States should get involved Watch this Senator Alejandro Moreno leader of the opposition PRI party marching to the podium and shoving Senate President Gerardo Fernandez
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even whacking him on the neck. There they go right there. When another man tried to intervene, he got knocked down
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I mean, all you needed was Michael Buffer, the guy that goes, let's get ready to rumble
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Yeah. Well, the scuffle capped off a session where opposition parties were accused of calling for
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U.S. military intervention against the cartel, something they deny. The dust-up comes as President
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Trump has ordered the Pentagon to target cartels as terrorists. Mexico's President Claudia Scheinbaum
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insists there will be, quote, no U.S. invasion. But on this day, the real battlefield was on the
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Senate floor. Finally this morning, a dinosaur straight out of Jurassic Park, but it's not your
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typical Hollywood version. Researchers in Morocco have uncovered what they call a jaw-droppingly
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weird dinosaur. It's the Spichamelis, the oldest known Ankylosaurus, dating back at this 165
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million years. Now, this creature was a showstopper, heavy body armor with spikes up to three feet
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long. The fossil turned up, by the way, in the Atlas Mountains, adding a new branch to the
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Ankylosaurus family tree. Scientists say they were slow, plant-eating tanks of their time
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using their armor to survive among predators. A reminder that even after millions of years
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nature still has a few surprises to dig up. I can tell you that my ankle is a sores
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after playing about an hour and 15 minutes of hardcore tennis yesterday
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But hey, that's my problem. All right, it's news without the spin, like your laundry on delicate
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Those are your unbiased updates for this Friday. We'll see you back here next week
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For all of us here at Straight Arrow News, I'm Craig DiGrelli. Have a fantastic holiday weekend
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