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India’s newest star athlete Preeti Pal hails from a farming village in Muzaffarnagar, about 80 miles outside Delhi. In a few days, she will leave the Paralympics in Paris with two medals and arrive home to a massive celebration. She’s the first Indian track and field athlete to double medal at a single Paralympic Games — a bronze in both the 100 meter and 200 meter races.

Pal was born with cerebral palsy and competes in the T35 category — which includes runners with coordination impairments such as hypertonia, ataxia and athetosis. These conditions all impact movement.

During the Paralympics, Pal’s photos went viral across social media. In many Instagram posts, she’s draped in the Indian flag looking like a hero from a comic book — a far cry from her childhood, when local villagers told her parents they’d never be able to get her married because of her disability. Pal, now 23 years old, was born with cerebral palsy and misshapen legs and feet, so she could barely walk as a child. Years of treatment, physical therapy and coaching transformed her into a track phenom.

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The Atlanta office of the FBI has released new details about the 14-year-old boy accused of killing two students and two teachers and injuring nine others at Apalachee High School on Wednesday in Winder, Ga.

In a post on X, the FBI said in May 2023 it received “several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time,” and that the threats contained images of guns.

The agency says the sheriff’s office identified a suspect, a 13-year-old male, and interviewed him and his father. “The father stated he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them. The subject denied making the threats online,” the post said.

The FBI said the sheriff’s office alerted local schools for continued monitoring of the subject, but that there was no probable cause for arrest or to take any additional law enforcement action. The agency confirmed that the then-13-year-old is the same teenager who was taken into custody after Wednesday's shooting.

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Donald Trump’s tiny social media empire has seen its extraordinary stock market rally wiped out by a steep sell-off.

Shares in Trump Media & Technology Group, owner of Truth Social, closed below $17 on Wednesday, reversing all their gains since the company’s rapid rise took hold in January.

The former president has been prohibited by a lock-up agreement from starting to sell shares in the firm until late September. While his majority stake in the firm is still worth some $2bn on paper, its value has fallen dramatically from $4.9bn in March.

Liz Cheney, the Republican former representative of Wyoming, has endorsed Kamala Harris for president. The former legislator made the pronouncement on Tuesday at an event at Duke university in North Carolina. This move makes her the latest Republican to publicly say that they will not be supporting Donald Trump.

“I don’t believe we have the luxury of writing in candidates’ names, particularly in swing states,” Cheney, daughter of former Republican vice-president Dick Cheney, told the crowd. “And as a conservative, as somebody who believes in and cares about the constitution, I have thought deeply about this and the present danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, I am voting for Kamala Harris.”

Cheney’s announcement, which was met with cheers from the audience, puts her on the growing list of lifelong Republicans who will be voting against Trump. In March, former vice-president Mike Pence told Fox news that he will not be endorsing his former running mate in November, citing Trump’s actions on 6 January and course reversals on issues such as forcing China to sell TikTok.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu changed the terms of a U.S.-backed truce deal that was mostly in place by later adding a "clarifications'' document, an Israeli news outlet reported Tuesday.

Ynet said the talks were dramatically altered when Netanyahu presented on July 27 the document with new conditions that included a military presence at the Philadelphi corridor in southern Gaza instead of the original phased withdrawal of Israeli troops from the whole enclave.

Among the other modifications to a May 27 proposal from Israel − which Hamas surprisingly accepted for the most part − were a checkpoint requirement for unarmed residents returning home to northern Gaza, a specific list of names of hostages to be freed instead of general parameters for who was eligible, and a stipulation that Palestinian prisoners would be released abroad, not in Gaza.

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A suspect is in custody after a Georgia high school went into lockdown Wednesday morning due to an "active shooter situation," according to authorities.

Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed a suspect was taken into custody after a shooting at Apalachee High School, which went into lockdown Wednesday morning, the Barrow County Sheriff's Office told USA TODAY.

All schools throughout Barrow County went into lockdown as a "precautionary measure," the sheriff's office said Wednesday morning around 11:30 a.m. ET.

The sheriff's office did not give additional details about the situation but said more information would be shared soon as deputies are currently on the scene.

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