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Rep. Mo Brooks tells NPR about how lawmakers and staffers at a Virginia baseball diamond helped Rep. Steve Scalise, who was shot by a gunman Wednesday morning.

Rep. Mo Brooks of South Carolina was on the baseball field when a gunman started shooting at a GOP baseball practice Wednesday morning. Brooks tells NPR he sought cover in a dugout with others.

Beef and poultry get labels designating humane treatment; seafood doesn't. Two fishermen want to change that. Their state-of-the-art ship makes fishing safer for crew and minimizes pain for fish.

The suspect in Wednesday's shooting at a baseball diamond in Virginia has been identified as James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Ill., two federal law enforcement sources confirm to NPR.

A shooting at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Va., injured several people, including a congressman. The FBI has taken over the probe into what happened.

The quarter-point increase in the Federal Reserve's benchmark rate was widely expected. Rates are still near historic lows, but the increase will mean higher borrowing costs for consumers.

It's one of the largest human rights class-action settlements in Australian history. The Manus Island camp, an all-male facility, has for years been blasted by rights groups for its conditions.

The shooter opened fire at a UPS facility just as the workday was getting underway, prompting chaos at the company's building. A company spokesman says the gunman was a current UPS employee.

As leader of Ireland's governing party, the 38-year-old son of an Indian immigrant is also the country's youngest-ever taoiseach, or prime minister.

Job-coaching and other support services that enable many adults to live in the community instead of institutions will likely be curtailed if the GOP plan to shrink Medicaid becomes law.