Teen kills 4 at Oregon school. And, DOJ sues California over alleged noncitizens

A 16-year-old armed with a long gun attacked Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, killing a teacher and three children aged 5, 8 and 11. A 7-year-old and a 54-year-old were hospitalized. Local officials say a bystander followed the gunman inside and killed him. He has not been named, and any tie to the school is unclear, according to NPR.

The Justice Department has sued California to block it from tallying ballots it contends were cast by noncitizens. Three weeks ahead of Election Day, federal officials handed Los Angeles County's top election official a flash drive listing 20,000 names of registered voters they suspected were noncitizens, giving him 48 hours to check them before the lawsuit was filed.

Separately, lawyers for the Trump administration are due in federal appeals court to argue that records produced in the White House belong to Donald Trump personally, not the public. The dispute may reach the Supreme Court. Every president until this year followed the Presidential Records Act, which Congress passed after disputes with Richard Nixon. The administration moved six months ago to invalidate it, following Trump's classified-documents case, since dropped.

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