Evening Update: Gunmen kill 7 at Jordan church funeral; envoy says U.S. could strike Iran this weekend; AR-15 bans head to the Supreme Court
Plus a suspected terror shooting near Paris as France deploys 70,000 police, two Israeli soldiers killed near Hebron, Zelensky's November talks, the DOJ's Alaska Senate suit, a Canada tariff change and a 5th Circuit detention ruling.
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I'm Nora Vale with your 5 PM World Brief for Friday, October 23. Gunmen kill 7, injure 34 at a church funeral in Karak, Jordan. Officials call it terrorism. Barrack: a strike on Iran could come this weekend. Trump: "We may do another little Epic Fury." Deadly shooting near Paris called a terrorist crime; France deploys 70,000 police. Two Israeli soldiers killed, three wounded near Hebron; both gunmen killed. Cook County and Connecticut defend AR-15 bans at the Supreme Court; arguments in December. In national weather, from the National Weather Service: Heavy rainfall lifts into the Plains this weekend; severe weather continues over New Mexico and West Texas. Severe thunderstorms with large hail, damaging gusts, and an isolated tornado are possible across portions of New Mexico, southern Colorado, and far west Texas today into tonight, a level 2 of 5 severe storm risk. Our opinion. Protect worshippers; stop a nuclear Iran with a clear plan; defend the rifles families own. Full stories and sources at WorldBriefNow.com. I'm Nora Vale. Thanks for watching.
Gunmen opened fire on a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in Humud village in Jordan's Karak governorate on Friday, killing seven people and injuring 34, Public Security Directorate chief Maj. Gen. Obaidullah Al-Maaytah said, according to Jordan's state news agency Petra. Interior Minister Mazen Al-Faraya called it a terrorist operation and the BBC reported he blamed a "group of extremists"; the attackers fled, no one has claimed responsibility, and King Abdullah II vowed the "harshest penalties."
A gunman killed one person and wounded others, including a 12-year-old girl, in shootings in Trappes, west of Paris, on Friday, and police arrested a 39-year-old man; Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said "this is clearly a terrorist crime" and the motive may be racist, Fox News reported. The Washington Examiner reported Macron called it a "racist terrorist attack." France is deploying 70,000 law enforcement officers and banning most protests ahead of Saturday, and the State Department told Fox News that President Trump's comments on the unrest and mass migration were "spot on" after Macron called foreign leaders' remarks "stupid."
The Israel Defense Forces said two soldiers, Staff Sgt. Ron Yonatan Roytman, 23, and Sgt. Yuval Shai Svilem, 20, were killed in Friday morning's shooting at a checkpoint near Hebron, and three other soldiers were wounded, The Times of Israel reported. The two Palestinian gunmen were killed after a gunfight of about 20 minutes; the Washington Examiner reported Israeli authorities said they were Hamas members and that Israel locked down the West Bank. This updates the Morning Brief report, when five Israelis had been reported wounded.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that Ukraine, the United States and Russia will meet in early November to resume efforts to end the war, starting at the technical level before moving up to senior leaders, the Washington Examiner reported. He said progress "all depends on the Russians" and that American involvement and pressure on Moscow would be required.
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack said Friday that a strike on Iran could "absolutely" come this weekend while stressing the president is "open and available" to a deal; asked about it, President Trump told reporters, "I don't know anything about it," The War Zone reported. Later at a rally in Fort Myers, Florida, Trump said, "We may do another little Epic Fury," without elaborating, according to Reuters via The Times of Israel. The War Zone also reported Brent crude topped $114 a barrel Friday morning.
The Justice Department on Friday sued to block the results of Alaska's Senate race if they are affected by "voter confusion" from a second Dan Sullivan on the ranked-choice ballot alongside Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK), who faces Democrat Mary Peltola, the Washington Examiner reported. The second Sullivan, former Forest Service employee Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., drew 2.5% in the primary, and President Trump told reporters he personally directed the lawsuit, the Examiner said.
President Trump signed a proclamation Friday that removes some Canadian products from, and adds others to, the 50% additional duty he imposed in July over what he called Canada's discrimination against U.S. motor vehicle commerce, according to the White House. The changes take effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern on Oct. 30, and the proclamation says Canada "reneged on its commitment" in August to remove the discrimination.
The full 17-member 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the Trump administration can keep detaining certain illegal immigrants without bond hearings while their cases move through immigration court, the Washington Examiner reported. The majority held the Fifth Amendment did not require bond hearings for three men who entered the U.S. unlawfully and were never legally admitted, the Examiner said.
Cook County, Illinois, and Connecticut filed briefs this week asking the Supreme Court to uphold their bans on AR-15s and similar semiautomatic rifles, arguing the guns are not ordinary firearms, the Washington Examiner reported. The justices will hear the consolidated cases Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins in December and decide whether the bans violate the Second or 14th Amendments.
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