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2 students shot, suspect dead in Butte County school shooting


2 students shot, suspect dead in Butte County school shooting

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PALERMO – Authorities say a suspect is dead and two students are hurt after a shooting at a school in the Northern California community of Palermo on Wednesday.

The Butte County Sheriff’s Office says the incident happened around 1 p.m. at the Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists.

One person was found by deputies with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, with the sheriff’s office confirming that the suspected shooter had died. Two students were also found shot; their conditions were not known at this time, the sheriff’s office says, but both have been taken to local hospitals. 

The suspect has not been identified at this time. It’s also unclear if the shooting was random, the sheriff’s office says, but it doesn’t appear that the suspect had a connection to the campus.  

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Scene of the shooting investigation. 

Parents are being told to meet their children at the Oroville Church of the Nazarene at 2238 Monte Vista Avenue. 

Due to the investigation, California Highway Patrol is diverting northbound traffic on Highway 70 at E. Gridley Road west to Highway 99. Southbound Highway 70 is also closed at Power House Hill Road, with traffic being diverted to Lone Tree Road. 

The school serves about 35 students from kindergarten to eighth grade. 

Palermo is a town about 25 miles north of Marysville and 65 miles north of Sacramento.



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Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont spoke to CBS News on Thursday about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services. Sanders said he agreed with Kennedy’s recent comments about the food industry and criticized some of his views as “very wrong.” CBS News correspondent Natalie Brand has more.

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Sanders says RFK Jr. “exactly correct” on food issues, has not decided on Trump pick for HHS secretary

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Sen. Bernie Sanders praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s message on food issues Thursday, and said he had not made up his mind on whether he would oppose President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of Kennedy to head the nation’s health agencies.

In an interview with CBS News correspondent Natalie Brand, the independent Vermont senator said that he feared some of Kennedy’s views on health issues are “extremely dangerous,” criticizing Kennedy’s call to pull fluoride out of U.S. water supply systems and his “very wrong” views on vaccines.

But the Vermont independent also said he might be able to find common ground on working with Kennedy, echoing his criticism of the influence the food industry has in Washington.

“I think what he’s saying about the food industry is exactly correct. I think you have a food industry concerned about their profits, could care less about the health of the American people. I think they have to be taken on,” Sanders told Brand. 

Sanders, who currently serves as chair of the Senate’s health committee, said he had last spoken to Kennedy years ago. He said he was looking forward to sitting down and talking with Trump’s picks to head other health agencies who would report to Kennedy.

“Trump over the years, and Kennedy himself, has talked about as a health problem, the fact that we pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. And if I’m not mistaken, Kennedy has talked about the need for Americans not to pay more than the people in other countries. I think that’s exactly right,” he said.

Sanders spoke with Brand after a hearing where he blasted the Biden administration’s Food and Drug Administration officials for falling short on addressing America’s “horrific epidemic” of obesity and diabetes.

“Do I think the FDA has brought forth the kind of urgency that is needed to address this crisis? No, I don’t. That’s the point I tried to make today,” Sanders said.

Sanders’ position on Kennedy drew a sharp contrast with Sen. Ed Markey, who also sits on the committee. 

“Some would say what he says on diet and importance of healthy foods is reasonable. However, one reasonable opinion does not qualify someone to run the United States Department of Health and Human Services,” the Massachusetts Democrat had said during the hearing.

When asked, Sanders declined to respond to Markey’s comments. 

“We are several decades behind”

At the hearing, FDA officials defended the agency’s work on food issues, turning many criticisms of the agency back at lawmakers for falling short of the Biden administration’s budget requests on issues like reviewing the safety of chemicals added to foods.

“We are several decades behind Europeans and our Canadian counterparts, because they have legal mandates to reevaluate chemicals that have been authorized at some point in the past. We don’t, but we are going to undertake it. But we are going to definitely struggle with the resources necessary to do that,” said Jim Jones, the FDA’s deputy commissioner for human foods.

FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf also warned the agency was facing an increasingly steep battle pushing through new rules, like long-stalled efforts to move forward a new “healthy” standard and nutrition labels that would go on the front of food packages, as well as crack down on cigarettes.

“Given the current state of judicial affairs, First Amendment rights, the fact that corporations have the same rights as individuals, every little thing we do, unless specifically in detail instructed by Congress, it’s not just that we lose in court, but we lose years,” Califf said.

One long-awaited change that could see movement soon is a ban on the food dye Red No. 3, which advocacy groups have petitioned for. California moved last year to be the first state to ban the food dye on its own over health concerns.

“We are hopeful that, within the next few weeks, we will be acting on that petition and a decision should be forthcoming,” said Jones.

In a clash with Califf, Sanders urged Califf to call out the “food and beverage industry, whose greed is destroying the health of millions of people” for their role in slowing the progress of the agency’s food policies.

Califf told the committee that the agency was facing “direct opposition from powerful industry forces” on issues like food chemical safety, but also refused to “castigate the people that work in the food and beverage industry.”

“We have an industry that if you tried to change it overnight, there are farmers all over the United States who would not be able to grow the crops they’re currently growing. So there needs to be a plan and it needs to be implemented in a mature thoughtful way across the country,” said Califf.



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Washington — House Republicans on Thursday blocked two Democratic resolutions that would have compelled the House Ethics Committee to release a potentially damaging report on its investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, voting to refer the matter back to the committee. 

Democratic Reps. Sean Casten of Illinois and Steve Cohen of Tennessee introduced twin privileged resolutions, forcing floor action within two legislative days. In a 206 to 198 vote, all but one Republican voted to refer Casten’s resolution back to the Ethics Committee. Cohen’s resolution met the same fate in a 204 to 198 vote, with one Republican voting with Democrats. Republican Rep. Tom McClintock of California was the only member to cross party lines. 

In a statement, Casten accused his Republican colleagues of voting “to sweep these allegations under the rug and set an unfortunate precedent.” He said he would continue to pursue the report’s release. 

The votes came after President-elect Donald Trump announced last month that he intended to nominate Gaetz for attorney general, prompting intense scrutiny over the Florida Republican’s background and the House Ethics Committee’s investigation into allegations that Gaetz engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use. Gaetz, who has denied the allegations, withdrew from consideration for the attorney general nomination a little over a week after Trump made the announcement.

Gaetz immediately resigned from Congress after Trump announced he wanted the Florida Republican to join his Cabinet. The timing of his resignation came days before the House panel was set to vote on releasing its report on Gaetz. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, urged the committee to keep the report secret, arguing that a former member is beyond the panel’s jurisdiction and it would set a “terrible precedent.” 

“I believe it is very important to maintain the House’s tradition of not issuing ethics reports on people who are no longer members of Congress,” he said on Nov. 15. “The House Ethics Committee’s jurisdiction is over sitting members of Congress. That’s an important rule.” 

Casten’s resolution cited four instances in which the Ethics Committee has released reports on its investigations into members after they’ve resigned. 

The bipartisan committee met Nov. 20 to consider whether to release the report, but was evenly split along party lines about how to move forward. A day later, Gaetz withdrew himself from consideration, facing a tenuous path to Senate confirmation. There was growing interest from senators on both sides of the aisle in seeing the report before a confirmation vote. 

The House Ethics Committee met again Thursday to discuss its investigation into allegations against Gaetz. In a statement, the panel said it is “continuing to discuss the matter.” The committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Susan Wild of Pennsylvania, who wanted the report made public, did not attend the meeting. 



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