Seattle Food Festival Shooting Kills Three, Teen Suspect Held

This is the evening edition of the One News Page Global Briefing, for Tuesday, the twenty-eighth of July, twenty twenty-six. Here is what matters now.

A shooting at the Bite of Seattle food festival at the Seattle Center near the Space Needle left three people dead and four others injured on Sunday evening, including a toddler. A Seattle Fire Department spokesperson said the gunfire erupted during the festival, and police believe a possible dispute preceded the attack. One suspect, a fifteen-year-old, is in custody, and officers are searching for at least one other shooter. Early accounts said two people had been killed and five wounded, but the death toll was later confirmed at three. Families gathered to grieve on Monday, and a vigil was held for the victims while the manhunt continued. Authorities have said multiple suspects were involved. Police told Sky News that at least three suspects may have been involved in the shooting, one of them aged fifteen, while other official statements described one suspect in custody and a second still at large.

In Washington, funeral services for the late South Carolina Republican senator Lindsey Graham began on Tuesday, the first of two days of ceremonies. Tuesday's memorial is being held in the capital and Wednesday's service is scheduled for South Carolina. Mourners include Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Both leaders also met President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday in back-to-back meetings. Zelenskyy is seeking additional firepower for Ukraine's air defenses, while Netanyahu is attempting to repair a strained relationship with the U S president.

Meanwhile, in the United States, Bryan Kohberger, who is serving multiple life sentences for the twenty twenty-two killings of four University of Idaho students, has filed a petition to withdraw his guilty plea and seek a new trial. He entered the guilty plea last year as part of a deal and filed the post-conviction relief petition on Monday. In a prison interview, Kohberger blamed the plea on false promises and wrong information, while court filings claim he received bad legal advice. The petition asks a court to reopen the case.

Also in Washington, the Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for an executive order that would restrict mail-in voting. The emergency appeal follows a federal appeals court decision on Sunday that left in place a lower-court block on key parts of the order, so the restrictions have not yet taken effect. The administration is seeking intervention ahead of November's midterm elections, when Republican control of Congress is at stake. The order had been blocked in nearly half the country.

In Japan, a powerful earthquake struck Kumamoto prefecture in southwestern Japan, causing a shopping mall to collapse and leaving many people trapped inside. Emergency workers were racing to find survivors and extinguish fires. At least fifty people were injured and about forty thousand homes were left without power. The quake's magnitude was reported differently: The New York Times described it as six point eight, while The Guardian and B B C cited a preliminary reading of seven point one. The Guardian reported the epicentre was about twenty kilometres south of Kumamoto city, and said authorities instructed around three hundred thousand people to go to evacuation centres.

In Britain, former Top Gear host Richard Hammond has been fined nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds by magistrates after being caught speeding twice in three weeks in Herefordshire. The fifty-six-year-old was driving a Porsche when he broke the speed limit on two December last year and was caught again twenty days later while driving a Bentley.

In sport, Zinedine Zidane has been appointed head coach of the France national football team on a four-year deal, succeeding Didier Deschamps. Zidane said he has so many emotions and is ready for the challenge.

In entertainment news, Ariana Grande has filed a lawsuit in a Los Angeles court against hackers she alleges stole unreleased music, private photos and video footage and sold them online. The filing does not name the hackers, and Grande is seeking to use the legal process to identify them.

At the United Nations, the United States walked out of a U N Security Council meeting on Monday while France's ambassador was speaking, protesting French comments that compared the U S to North Korea and other authoritarian states. The dispute followed a U S vote alongside North Korea and Russia against extending the term of the U N high commissioner for human rights.

In Los Angeles, a judge ruled on Monday that the singer D4vd must stand trial over the killing, sexual abuse and mutilation of fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Judge Charlaine Olmedo made the decision after a five-day preliminary hearing, finding prosecutors had presented enough probable cause. Prosecutors allege Hernandez threatened to reveal an illegal sexual relationship with the twenty-one-year-old musician and to ruin his music career, and that he then killed and dismembered her.

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