(ARLINGTON, Texas) — One student was fatally shot and another injured outside a Texas high school on Monday, according to the Arlington Police Department.
The suspect was arrested and charged with capital murder, Arlington Police Chief Al Jones said at a press conference.
The suspect may also be facing additional charges, police said. He is being held at a juvenile detention center, according to Arlington police.
All the students involved in the incident attend Lamar High School and are all minors.
The female student was hit by gunfire and transported to the hospital by an adult near the incident after suffering non-life-threatening injuries, according to Arlington police.
Police responded within minutes to calls of a shooting outside the high school Monday morning.
The motive behind the shooting is unknown and an investigation is ongoing, according to Jones.
Police did not reveal where the suspect got the firearm and did not reveal the type of gun the suspect used in the shooting, citing the investigation.
At the press conference, Arlington ISD Superintendent Dr. Marcelo Cavazos said he was heartbroken over the shooting, and for the victims, school staff and the entire Lamar High school community.
“Schools deserve to be a safe space for students to learn and to grow every day,” Cavazos said. “We will continue to work with the Arlington Police Department as they conduct their investigation.”
Classes are canceled for Lamar High School students on Tuesday, with counseling services available on Wednesday, according to Cavazos.
Jones said that authorities would work together with the school district to make sure schools are safe for students.
He also called for the community to come together to tackle gun violence.
“We need our community’s help to ensure that guns do not end up on school campuses,” Jones told reporters. “We need gun owners to step up and be responsible and to ensure that they properly are securing their firearms, so kids don’t have access to them.”
(NEW YORK) — Bob Costello, an attorney who previously advised former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, told reporters his former client has a “lie, cheat, steal” mindset after Costello testified for the defense Monday before the Manhattan grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s role in the hush payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
Costello, a longtime Trump ally, appeared before the grand jury as an exculpatory witness after Trump’s legal team asked the DA to allow him to testify, according to a letter to prosecutors obtained by ABC News.
Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, paid $130,000 to Daniels in the closing days of the 2016 presidential campaign to allegedly keep her quiet about an affair she claimed to have had with Trump. The former president has denied the affair and his attorneys have framed the funds as an extortion payment.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is mulling whether to charge Trump with falsifying business records, after the Trump Organization allegedly reimbursed Cohen for the payment then logged the reimbursement as a legal expense, sources have told ABC News. Trump has called the payment “a private contract between two parties” and has denied all wrongdoing.
Speaking to reporters after his grand jury appearance, Costello painted Cohen as an unreliable witness on which to base an indictment of the former president.
“I’m trying to tell the truth to the grand jury,” Costello said. “If they want to go after Donald Trump and they have solid evidence, then so be it. Michael Cohen is not solid evidence.”
Costello testified for about two and a half hours, during which he said he described an initial meeting with Cohen during which Cohen was “talking to us while pacing like a wild tiger” and vowing “to do whatever the f— it takes” to avoid prison.
“He went to jail,” Costello said of Cohen, who served prison time after pleading guilty to federal charges related to the hush payment. “Now he’s on the revenge tour.”
Cohen has said previously that “this is not about revenge,” but about telling the truth.
Cohen was present Monday at the district attorney’s office to be available as a rebuttal witness, but he did not testify.
Trump wrote on social media Saturday that he was expecting to be arrested Tuesday, and called on followers to protest.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Monday that the city is prepared for any protests related to a potential indictment.
“We are monitoring comments on social media, and the NYPD is doing their normal role of making sure there is no inappropriate actions in the city,” Adams said.
ABC News’ Katherine Faulders contributed to this report.
(HONG KONG and LONDON) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has held the first day of talks with Vladimir Putin during a closely watched state visit to Moscow, with the two leaders presenting a united front against the West just days after the Russian president was issued” target=”_blank”>indicted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes.
Xi’s three-day state visit is the strongest show of support from China to Russia since the latter’s invasion of Ukraine, representing a significant boost for Putin, and comes as Xi has sought to frame Beijing as a possible peace-maker in the conflict, even as Western countries have warned he is considering providing weapons to Moscow.
Xi landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport on Monday afternoon, greeted by a Russian military band, telling camera crews on the tarmac that China and Russia were ready “to stand guard over the world order based on international law.” A motorcade then whisked Xi to the Kremlin, where he was welcomed by Putin.
Speaking ahead of initial informal talks, both men described each other as “dear friends.” Putin spoke admiringly of China’s “colossal leap forward,” adding: “All over the world, this is of genuine interest, and we even envy you a little.”
Xi also praised Putin’s leadership, noting he had chosen to make Russia his visit after being proclaimed president for an unprecedented third term.
Putin said the two would discuss a peace initiative that China put forward last month. Putin said he had “acquainted himself in detail” with the proposal, praising it for following the “principles of fairness.” The two met for 4.5 hours afterward, sharing a dinner together, according to Putin’s spokesman, ahead of formal talks on Tuesday.
China has sought to present itself as neutral, but in reality has provided Russia with an economic lifeline amid Western sanctions and helped it source sanctioned components, such as semiconductors, for its war machine. The 12-point peace proposal China published follows the Kremlin’s narrative of the war and calls for an immediate cease-fire, without demanding Russia withdraw its troops.
The Biden administration on Monday said such a cease-fire would “would effectively be supporting the ratification of Russian conquest,” by freezing the conflict and allowing the Kremlin to keep the territory it has seized from Ukraine, while giving Russia time to regroup for a fresh attack.
“It would recognize Russia’s attempts to seize a sovereign neighbor’s territory by force. A ceasefire now, without a durable solution, would allow President Putin to rest and refit his troops and then restart the war at a time more advantageous to Russia,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters.
Any plan that does not prioritize Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity “is a stalling tactic at best, or is merely seeking to facilitate an unjust outcome,” Blinken said. “The world should not be fooled by any tactical move by Russia, supported by China or any other country, to freeze the war on its own terms.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been careful not to criticize the Chinese proposal, but his senior advisers have repeatedly warned that they believe a cease-fire that doesn’t call for Russia to withdraw its forces is a trap designed to favor the Kremlin. Xi is expected to have a call with Zelensky following his meeting with Putin, the first since the war started.
Xi did not mention Ukraine in his remarks with Putin Monday, but in an article published under his name in Russian state media, Xi touted the plan, claiming it reflected the consensus views of the international community.
China’s peace proposal is a “fig leaf,” Alexander Gabuev, an expert on Russia-China relations at the Carnegie Institute for International Peace, told ABC News. The plan is intended to give Xi diplomatic cover for his visit to Moscow, allowing him to present China as a responsible power to countries in the Global South and counter criticism that it’s abetting Putin in the war, Gabuev said.
Xi’s visit underscored how strongly China views Russia as a partner for its long-term goal of challenging the United States’ dominance in the international order, a point driven home by Xi’s warm words for Putin just days after the ICC war crimes indictment.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin on Monday said ICC officials should “respect the jurisdictional immunity enjoyed by the head of state in accordance with international law,” and that the court should attempt to avoid “politicization and double standards.”
Xi is staying at the Soluxe Hotel in northern Moscow. Formal talks between the presidents’ delegations are scheduled to be held Tuesday, as well as a state dinner, according to the Kremlin.
Western countries have warned that China may be considering supplying Russia with lethal aid, such as weapons and ammunition, going beyond the assistance it has already provided. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Monday said the U.S. did not believe China has decided yet to send weapons, saying U.S. officials had reiterated warnings to Chinese officials that it would “not be in their best interest” to do so.
China has denied it is planning to send weapons. Experts say that while aid such as artillery ammunition and attack drones would be highly valued by the Kremlin, the economic support and components already being supplied by China are significant in allowing Russia to continue its war.
ABC News’ Joe Simonetti and Ellie Kaufman contributed to this story.
(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared narrowly divided over whether to allow the Navajo Nation to sue the federal government for help expanding their reservation’s access to water at a time when the precious resource has been in tight supply across the drying American West.
After oral arguments that stretched almost two hours, there appeared to be at least five justices supportive of allowing the tribe to purse a claim, but there was no clear consensus from the bench on the scope of the government’s duty to provide water the Navajo seek.
The tribe’s reservation – spanning 16 million-acres across Arizona, New Mexico and Utah – is the nation’s largest. One in three households lacks running water, the Nation says.
At issue is an 1868 treaty in which the U.S. agreed to provide the Navajo, who had been forced off native lands, with a new “permanent home.”
The tribe claims the agreement implicitly requires the government to assess the Navajo’s water needs and develop a plan to meet them for farming and living; the government disputes that it ever agreed to explicitly provide the reservation with a certain amount of water.
The vital but increasingly strained Colorado River, is at the center of the debate along with a labyrinth of agreements carefully apportioning its water to serve nearly 40 million Americans across the West.
A federal district court sided with the government, denying the Navajo Nation’s claim, saying it had failed to identify a “specific, applicable, trust-creating statute or regulation that the government violated.” A federal appeals court reversed, reasoning that the reservation could not exist without adequate water and therefore an obligation to supply it was implied.
Justices Neil Gorsuch, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor all seemed sympathetic to the tribe’s case.
“Clearly, there is a duty to provide some water to this tribe under the treaty, right?” Gorsuch asked Biden administration Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General Frederick Liu. “Could I bring a good breach-of-contract claim for someone who promised me a permanent home, the right to conduct agriculture and raise animals if it turns out it’s the Sahara Desert?”
“I don’t think you would be able to bring a breach of contract claim,” Liu replied. Gorsuch reacted with disbelief.
“The Navajo could still … lose later on in the litigation, right?” Jackson underscored, implying she is inclined to at least allow the suit to go forward. “The decision that we’re making right now is not on the merits of whether or not the Navajo is correct about the United States having breached its duty.”
Attorney Shay Dvoretzky, representing the tribe, insisted the government has an “affirmative duty to ensure access to water” and that it had broken that promise for generations.
“The states say we’re here to take their water behind their back. No, the Nation is here for its fair share, through a fair process,” he said.
The Biden administration’s Liu said the government remained morally committed to helping the Navajo — and has allocated billions of dollars for infrastructure improvements on reservations — but that the treaty “did not impose on the United States a duty to construct pipelines, pumps, or wells to deliver water.”
An attorney for three states in the case – Arizona, Colorado and Nevada – argued the Navajo Nation should never have been able to bring the claim in the first place, since the Supreme Court has asserted exclusive jurisdiction over disputes involving the Colorado River in a series of decisions and decrees over decades.
They also argue that allowing the tribe to claim expanded water rights over the Colorado would upset pre-existing agreements and ultimately mean less water available to those communities that have come to rely on it.
Justice Samuel Alito appeared most concerned about the potential “real-world impacts” of the case on preexisting water allocation agreements.
“Do you think that you have the right to take out from that water source whatever quantity of water is necessary to meet the standard of a livable, permanent homeland regardless of the needs of others who are drawing water from the same water source?” Alito asked.
“The Nation had water rights first. We do have priority rights to the water,” Dvoretsky responded.
Justice Clarence Thomas suggested any tribal water rights could be limited to pre-existing water, or groundwater, on the reservation — not from an alternate source hundreds of miles away. Justice Brett Kavanaugh openly wondered if this debate isn’t something that Congress should resolve.
“It shouldn’t be left to the Congress now because the Congress then [in 1868] agreed to these treaties,” Dvoretsky said.
A coalition of Western water associations and consumer groups in a friend-of-the-court filing called the case “critically important,” warning the justices about its potential to upend “stability and predictability” of the process to determine water rights.
Allowing the tribe to bring a claim, the groups say, “threatens to undermine the certainty of water rights not only in the Colorado River Basin, but also throughout other water-scarce regions of the United States more broadly.”
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, whose questions focused on the tribe’s ability to defend its water rights in court, could be a swing vote.
While Barrett’s questions signaled some potential unease with the scope of the tribe’s claim — i.e. whether the government could be on the line for billions in expensive infrastructure expenses on the reservation — they also indicated belief that the tribe should be allowed a chance to fight for water in court.
“Seems to me that the strongest arguments made on behalf of the Navajo in the Navajo’s brief are in the nature of you breached the treaty, it was broken promises, you promised us a permanent home and you’re not [providing it],” Barrett said.
(NEW YORK) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Monday he was “confident” the city is prepared for any protests related to a potential indictment of former President Donald Trump.
“We are monitoring comments on social media, and the NYPD is doing their normal role of making sure there is no inappropriate actions in the city,” Adams said Monday at an unrelated press conference. “We are confident we’re going to be able to do that.”
Writing on his Truth Social platform Saturday, Trump called for protests against what he said was his expected arrest Tuesday, in connection with the Manhattan district attorney’s probe into the 2016 hush payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, paid $130,000 to Daniels in the closing days of the 2016 presidential campaign to allegedly keep her quiet about an affair she claimed to have had with Trump. The former president has denied the affair and his attorneys have framed the funds as an extortion payment.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is mulling whether to charge Trump with falsifying business records, after the Trump Organization allegedly reimbursed Cohen for the payment then logged the reimbursement as a legal expense, sources have told ABC News. Trump has called the payment “a private contract between two parties” and has denied all wrongdoing.
Adams said city officials have heard “a lot of reports” about a potential indictment, but told reporters he has not met with Bragg nor discussed the matter with him.
Online posts indicate there appear to be a handful of small protests being organized by different grassroots groups. But Ali Alexander, the conservative activist behind the “Stop the Steal” movement, publicly said that his group will not organize any protests.
In Palm Beach County, Florida, sources confirmed to ABC News that authorities were preparing for protests near Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate should the former president be indicted.
On Sunday a small group of pro-Trump demonstrators gathered on the bridge connecting Palm Beach to the mainland. They said they would return with more people on Tuesday or sooner if Trump were to be indicted, according to reports.
An intelligence bulletin issued Sunday by the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency in Washington, D.C., and obtained by ABC News, says that some extremists consider the possible indictment of Trump a “line in the sand.”
“Potential criminal justice actions taken toward a former US president — or actions perceived to be taken toward the former president — remain a ‘line in the sand’ for Domestic Violent Extremists (DVE) communities and thus have the potential to manifest in violence toward government targets or political officials,” said the bulletin from the DC Fusion Center, a threat intelligence group within the agency.
The bulletin notes that the Trump’s social media post in which he called for protests “was met with an immediate increase in violent online rhetoric and expressed threats toward government and law enforcement targets perceived as participating in a political persecution of the former president, as well as calls for ‘Civil War’ more generally. Of the concerning posts observed by the DC Fusion Center, many described the potential arrest of the former president as a ‘red line’ or ‘line in the sand,’ after which violent action was the only possible outcome.”
“This uptick in rhetoric associated with an alleged indictment against the former president represents the most significant 24-hour traction observed by the Fusion Center since the August 2022 search warrant service at Mar-a-Lago,” the bulletin said.
The FBI is warning local and state police agencies around the country about concerns related to a possible indictment of Trump, but the bureau says it doesn’t have any additional information.
“The FBI continues to closely monitor a potential Indictment of the former President which open source reporting has indicated may occur in the coming week,” the FBI said in a warning obtained by ABC News.
“At the present time there is no information to confirm this indictment nor is there any information to indicate violence or criminal activity is planned,” said the FBI, adding there’s no sign that anything “other than First Amendment protected action is being planned.”
The U.S. Capitol Police also issued their own assessment regarding potential violence, saying that they have seen “no current indication of threats directed at the US Capitol or Members of Congress” as it relates to Trump.
The organization “has not yet seen any indication of large-scale organized protests and/or violence, as (it) did leading up to January 6, 2021,” the assessment, which was obtained by ABC News, said.
No current or former U.S. president has ever been indicted for criminal conduct.
Harry Styles posed backstage with BLACKPINK‘s Rosé during his tour in Seoul, South Korea, which she shared to her Instagram Story on Monday. Billboardreports Jennie was also in the crowd, as was several members of BTS— RM, Suga, V and Jungkook.
Niall Horan reflected on being invited to the White House on St. Patrick’s Day and shared a collage of photos of the event, where he met President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. “It was one of the most special days of my life,” he wrote on Instagram. “To be able to say ‘I performed at the White House’ is something I’ll hold dear forever.”
The Weeknd celebrated the third anniversary of the After Hours album, which produced the hits “Blinding Lights,” “Save Your Tears” and more. The singer sent an e-newsletter to fans encouraging them to stream the album and revealed his favorite moments from that music era. Highlights include the music videos for “Blinding Lights” and “Save Your Tears,” the Super Bowl halftime show, and performing at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards.
Megan Thee Stallion also met Vice President Harris when celebrating Women’s History Month in Washington, D.C. at the Women’s Empowerment brunch. She shared images of her time at the Capitol on Instagram.
Adam Levine packed on the PDA again with wife Behati Prinsloo, this time at Disneyland. ET Canada reports the couple was there to celebrate the Maroon 5 singer’s 44th birthday.
Pink Floyd continues to celebrate this year’s 50th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon, and has just shared a new video looking back at the groundbreaking tour in support of the album.
The clip looks at the first-ever use of their large circular screen at the back of the stage, and their surround sound system. It features commentary from Roger Waters, as well as Aubrey Powell of album cover design company Hipgnosis, and Ian Emes, who did the animation for the “Time” sequence for the Dark Side tour.
There’s also an interview with Jill Furmanovsky, who shot the majority of the photos on the tour. Those photos are included in the new book Pink Floyd — The Dark Side of the Moon: 50th Anniversary, which is included in the 50th anniversary box set, available now.
“Floyd were unique at the time, they were breaking all these boundaries technically. It was a totally immersive experience,” she shares. “It was a really good time for the band. Everyone was in their prime. They seemed to be enjoying all of it.”
Nearly a year to the day she was given control back of her life, Amanda Bynes‘ mental health has reportedly taken a sad turn. According to TMZ, a passerby spotted the former Amanda Show star wandering naked in Los Angeles early Sunday morning.
Bynes reportedly waved down a car, telling the driver she was coming down from a psychotic episode, and then called 911 on herself, according to TMZ. After arriving at a police station unharmed, she was placed under a routine 72-hour psychiatric hold. That 5150 hold can be extended if the case, or the patient, warrants it.
Bynes’ struggle with mental health was at the center of the nine-year conservatorship that was placed on her affairs. It was terminated last year.
Bynes’ mother, Lynn Bynes, was put temporarily in charge following a 2013 incident in which the Easy A actress reportedly started a small fire in a neighbor’s driveway, which came on the heels of previous erratic behavior. After the driveway incident, the actress was placed on a temporary psychiatric hold.
The conservatorship was reinstated in 2014, the same year Bynes revealed she’d been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Bynes was to appear with other stars at the 90s Con in Connecticut over the weekend, but pulled out last minute over a reported “illness.”
Meghan Trainor revealed she was inspired to write “Mother” after “silly men” told her that having a baby would destroy her career — among other things.
Taking to Instagram, the singer shared a video of her lip-synching her new hit and explaining, “I wrote this song for all the silly men in the world who have tried to tell me what kind of songs I should write, what career choices I should make, and have talked down to me like I have no idea what I’m doing.”
She also added a kiss-blowing emoji before continuing in the caption, “And that having a baby would end my career.”
Meghan recently opened up about how women feel they have to choose between starting a family and having a career. She told the Best Advicepodcast, “For anyone out there who wants to have a baby, and you’re like, ‘Oh no, my career isn’t where I want it to be,’ a baby won’t ruin it, it’ll make it better.”
She added, “Babies bring luck … I promise everything will work out.”
Meghan is currently expecting her second child with husband Daryl Sabara, with whom she shares 1-year-old Riley. The baby is due in July.
As previously reported, Duran Duran’s John Taylor recently revealed at the Unforgettable Evening fundraiser for cancer research that original guitarist Andy Taylor is going to be on their next album, and now the band is sharing a few more details about the project.
In a post on Instagram, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers confirm that “a special new music project is in the works, set for release later this year.” They add, “The new recordings will feature extended Duran Duran family and friends, old and new, including our former band mate Andy Taylor, who will join us on guitar on a few tracks.”
In the meantime, Duran Duran is set to hit the road in April with dates in the U.K. and Ireland. They return to the United States on May 27 with an appearance at the BottleRock Festival in Napa Valley, California. A complete list of dates can be found at duranduran.com.
