WAYNESVILLE, N.C. — Family and hundreds of friends and neighbors are remembering a North Carolina college student credited with saving classmates’ lives by rushing a gunman firing inside their lecture hall.
A memorial for 21-year-old Riley Howell was held Sunday at a 1,900-seat auditorium at a lakeside retreat in western North Carolina.
Police said Howell was shot Tuesday while tackling the gunman who killed Howell, one other person and wounded four others at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
His sister Iris described the big, curious, adventurous man as someone who set an example to be “bigger than the small things this world wants us to be hung up on.”
Authorities arrested and charged a former student, Trystan Andrew Terrell, with murder, attempted murder and other offenses in connection with the attack.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump turned up the pressure on China on Sunday, threatening to hike tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods.
Trump’s comments, delivered on Twitter, came as a Chinese delegation was scheduled to resume talks in Washington on Wednesday aimed at resolving a trade war that has shaken financial markets and cast gloom over the world economy. Trump turned up the heat by saying he would raise import taxes on $200 billion in Chinese products to 25% from 10% on Friday.
He’d twice pushed back deadlines — in January and March — to raise the tariffs in a bid to buy more time for a negotiated settlement. But on Sunday, Trump, who has called himself a “tariff man,” said he’s losing patience. “The Trade Deal with China continues, but too slowly, as they attempt to renegotiate. No!” Trump tweeted.
In his tweets, Trump also threatened to slap tariffs on another $325 billion in Chinese imports, covering everything China ships annually to the United States.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he has chosen Mark Morgan to head U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, taking senior leaders at the agency by surprise.
“I am pleased to inform all of those that believe in a strong, fair and sound Immigration Policy that Mark Morgan will be joining the Trump Administration as the head of our hard working men and women of ICE,” Trump wrote in a tweet. “Mark is a true believer and American Patriot. He will do a great job!
ICE leaders did not know Trump had picked Morgan and learned of the decision from the president’s tweet, according to two senior administration officials.
“ICE leadership had no advance notice of Morgan’s selection before the tweet,” said one senior administration official.
Morgan, a career FBI official who served as the chief of the U.S. Border Patrol at the end of the Obama administration, has spoken publicly in favor of Trump’s efforts to build a wall along the border with Mexico.
JERUSALEM — Gaza militants fired hundreds of rockets into southern Israel on Sunday, killing at least four Israelis and bringing life to a standstill across the region in the bloodiest fighting since a 2014 war. As Israel pounded Gaza with airstrikes, the Palestinian death toll rose to 23, including two pregnant women and two babies.
The bloodshed marked the first Israeli fatalities from rocket fire since the 2014 war. With Palestinian militants threatening to send rockets deeper into Israel and Israeli reinforcements massing near the Gaza frontier, the fighting showed no signs of slowing down.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent most of the day huddled with his Security Cabinet. Late Sunday, the Cabinet instructed the army to “continue its attacks and to stand by” for further orders. Israel also claimed to have killed a Hamas commander involved in transferring Iranian funds to the group. Israel and Hamas, an Islamic militant group that seeks Israel’s destruction, have fought three wars since Hamas violently seized control of Gaza from Western-backed Palestinian forces in 2007. They have fought numerous smaller battles
— Wire reports