Three Killed, Four Wounded in Seattle Food Festival Shooting

This is the morning edition of the One News Page Global Briefing, for Wednesday, the twenty-ninth 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 wounded on Sunday evening, authorities said. Police believe the attack may have followed a possible dispute, and a manhunt for an additional suspect continued into Monday. A fifteen-year-old suspect was in custody, and investigators said at least three suspects were involved in the gunfire. Police were searching for a second shooter, and among the wounded was a toddler. On Monday, families grieved the three victims and Seattle residents gathered for a vigil as the investigation continued.

In Washington, D C funeral services for Senator Lindsey Graham began Tuesday, with President Donald Trump delivering a eulogy for the South Carolina Republican, who spent more than three decades on Capitol Hill. Mourners included Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who were also scheduled to meet Trump at the White House. Additional services are set for Wednesday in South Carolina.

Meanwhile, in Georgia, Colt Gray, sixteen, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Tuesday for the twenty twenty-four shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, that killed two students and two teachers. Gray had pleaded guilty on Friday to fifty-five counts, including murder, stemming from the attack.

In southern Japan, the death toll from a powerful earthquake rose to at least thirteen on Wednesday, with hundreds more injured and tens of thousands left without power or water. The six point eight-magnitude quake struck the island of Kyushu on Tuesday and registered a maximum intensity of seven on Japan's shindo scale. Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses in a search for trapped survivors. Toyota and Honda said they would suspend operations at their factories in Kumamoto until Friday, citing changing conditions including aftershocks and recovery efforts.

In California, Ruby Rippey, a former aide to Governor Gavin Newsom, has publicly detailed for the first time her account of an affair with Newsom more than twenty years ago, when he was mayor of San Francisco, in an essay published in Vanity Fair. In the essay, Rippey describes her struggles with alcoholism and substance abuse and appears to contradict Newsom's previous account of the relationship. She had largely remained silent since the affair became public.

In Peru, Keiko Fujimori was inaugurated as president, becoming the country's first female head of state and returning Fujimorism to power twenty-six years after her father, the late former President Alberto Fujimori, left office. The fifty-one-year-old leader of the Popular Force party, who won a narrow election victory, has pledged to fight crime with an "iron fist" and to end a decade of political instability. She was due to deliver her inaugural address and unveil her cabinet; Spain's King Felipe V I attended the ceremony in Lima.

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