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Bruce Springsteen has released a song in honor of Alex Pretti and Renee Good titled "Streets of Minneapolis." Springsteen announced the release Wednesday on Instagram. "I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis," Springsteen said. "It's dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good." The slow-burning song builds from just acoustic guitar and voice to a fuller band tune, including a harmonica solo, and ends with chants of "ICE...

\ A shooting Monday at a bank building in downtown Louisville killed five people and injured at least six others, police said. The suspected shooter was also dead, police said. Connor Sturgeon, the shooter from Louisville, is a 25-year-old man. He was reportedly a worker at the Old National Bank Louisville Metropolitan Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey told reporters that officers who arrived on the scene “found active gunshots inside the location at the time.” According to the report of Intel Point Alert, Gunman is 25-year-old Connor Sturgeon, who reportedly texted a friend before shooting saying he was...

The Madrid attacks demonstrated that the US-led war in Iraq had failed in its objectives because the terrorism it was meant to eradicate had become even more powerful, European Commission President Romano Prodi said in an interview published here Monday. "Whether in Iraq or outside Iraq -- in Istanbul, Moscow, Madrid -- the terrorism that should have been stemmed by this war is infinitely more powerful today than it was a year ago," Prodi told the Turin daily La Stampa in a scathing assessment of US President George W. Bush's war on terrorism. "It is clear that the war on...