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The suspect tied to both the Brown University mass shooting and the killing of an MIT professor has been found dead inside a storage unit with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. During a Thursday night press conference in Rhode Island, officials confirmed that 48-year-old suspect Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente was found deceased in Salem, New Hampshire. Authorities revealed they traced Valente to a self-storage facility where robots, canine units, and a SWAT team entered the building and conducted a comprehensive sweep. He was found dead inside, along with a satchel and two firearms. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said a key...

“The suspected gunman who opened fire at Brown University over the weekend apparently rented a vehicle that was later found near the scene of a murdered MIT professor. The rented vehicle is the same make and model as a car identified in connection with the shooting death of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Nuno Loureiro, CBS News reports.”

MA State Police found the car believed to be connected to the killing of Nuno Loureiro; the suspect might be connected to shootings at Brown SALEM, NH — Massachusetts and New Hampshire police believe they have a vehicle of a person of interest connected to the murder of a professor from MIT in his home in Brookline. Fox 25, as well as posts on X-Twitter report the vehicle, a gray Nissan Sentra, which was associated with a person of interest in the murder, was found in Salem earlier today. Investigators also believe the killing of Loureiro is connected to the...

The gunman who killed two students at Brown University was found dead in a storage unit after murdering an MIT professor as their decades-old connection was revealed. The suspect - 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente - was revealed to be a Portuguese national who studied at the Ivy League school in Rhode Island more than 20 years ago. He had attended Brown to pursue a masters of science in physics from 2000 to 2001, before he took a leave of absence and ultimately withdrew from the school. It remains unclear why Neves Valente opened fire at the Rhode Island school, killing...

Authorities say the same suspect was responsible for Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University and the Monday night murder of an MIT professor in Brookline, Mass. At a news conference Thursday night in Providence, that city’s police chief Col. Oscar Perez identified the Brown suspect as 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves Valente.At a separate news conference in Boston, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah Foley said Valente, a Portuguese national, is also believed to be the gunman who killed MIT physicist Nuno F.G. Loureiro.Ted Docks, the Special Agent in Charge of Boston’s FBI field office, told the press a search warrant was...

His colleagues described him as a beacon of hope. Portuguese newspapers stumbled upon his story by chance. The scientific community was shaken to its core. The political establishment in Portugal set aside a minute for him — a single, paltry minute. Something doesn’t add up. Call me paranoid. Call me what you will. I’ve worked in security long enough to trust my instincts. They’re not always right, I admit, but I’ll take that chance. Last night, over dinner, when I heard the news of the acclaimed scientist’s death — a fellow Portuguese — I voiced my suspicions to everyone at...

Police probe potential ties between Brown University attack and MIT professor slayingPROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Police are investigating possible ties between Saturday’s shooting at Brown University and Monday’s slaying of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Target 12 investigators have learned. Senior law enforcement officials tell Target 12 that federal, state and local authorities are now examining a potential connection between the two crimes. Multiple people familiar with the investigation said they have discovered evidence showing the two may be linked. The possible connection marks a shift in the investigation. Ted Docks, special agent in charge of...

“A world-renowned MIT nuclear science professor who was murdered in his home may have been assassinated by an Iranian operative, Israeli officials said. Married father-of-three Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was gunned down in the leafy Boston suburb of Brookline at 8.30pm on Monday by an unknown shooter who is still on the loose. Loureiro specialized in nuclear science, engineering and physics and he had previously spoken out in favor of Israel, a mortal enemy of Iran. Now, Israeli officials have said Iranian operatives targeted the leading nuclear fusion researcher, according to the Jerusalem Post.”

An MIT professor was fatally shot in his Brookline, Massachusetts, home on Monday night. 47-year-old Nuno Loureiro, a nuclear science and engineering professor, was shot multiple times, according to police. Loureiro was transported to a Boston hospital and died Tuesday morning. A neighbor told CBS News that they heard three loud bangs on Monday night. “I thought at first it was somebody in our apartment kicking in a door or something so I called the neighbors and they said no they thought it was gunshots,” a neighbor told CBS News. A suspect is not in custody CBS News reported: MIT...

MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was killed in a shooting at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts Monday night, the school confirmed. Loureiro, a nuclear science and engineering professor from Portugal, was 47 years old. A Brookline police spokesperson said officers responded to a call for gunshots at an apartment on Gibbs Street at about 8:30 p.m. "A victim was located who had been shot multiple times," Brookline police deputy superintendent Paul Campbell told WBZ-TV. Loureiro was taken by ambulance to a Boston hospital, where he died Tuesday morning. No other information about the shooting was immediately released and authorities did not...

A 47-year-old MIT professor has died after being shot in his Brookline home Monday night, the DA said. Officers from the Massachusetts State Police and Brookline Police Department responded to reports of a man shot on Gibb Street. Nuno F.G. Loureiro was transported to a local hospital and succumbed to his injuries Tuesday morning. Police are actively investigating the death as a homicide, according to the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office, writing in a statement, “No further information is being released at this time.” The DA has not said they arrested anyone in connection with the homicide and or identified any...

Skepticism about climate change has resurfaced, as some experts claim the exact causes of global warming remain unclear and that the policies addressing it are motivated more by money than by science. Richard Lindzen, Professor Emeritus of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has spent decades studying atmospheric science. He told the Daily Mail that the public hysteria surrounding global warming isn't actually based on realistic data. Climate change is the term used to describe Earth's warming, mainly as a result of human activity, such as burning coal, oil and gas. Scientists and climate activists have warned that...

Jackie Norris, the chairwoman of the Des Moines Public School Board who once served as chief of staff to Michelle Obama, has pulled out of the race for Iowa's open U.S. Senate seat as recommended by her Republican opponent, Rep. Ashley Hinson. Hinson stressed earlier this month that Norris, a champion of DEI, had "lost all shreds of credibility" over the role she played in the hiring of the Des Moines district's former superintendent, a criminal illegal alien who was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Sept 26. Ian Andre Roberts, a native of Guyana, has a lengthy...

On Friday, Sept. 19, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation stating that new H-1B visa petitions submitted on Sept. 21 or after will require a $100,000 payment. This change would cause MIT to pay over $10 million every year for H-1B visa sponsorships. -snip- Although the majority of H-1B workers hold a computer-related job (65% in 2023), many universities in the U.S. issue H-1B visas for other international employees, including postdoctoral scholars, researchers, and professors. According to Director of Media Relations Kimberly Allen, MIT submitted 118, 102, and 103 new H1-B visa petitions in 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively. Under...

New York’s most notorious revolutionary tourist — “sandalista” Lori Berenson — is back in Manhattan from Peru, where she served 15 years in prison for terrorism. Forgive us if we don’t put out a welcome mat. The LaGuardia HS grad and MIT dropout has been stuck in Peru by law until her full 20-year sentence expired. Now that it has, she’s heading home to her parents’ Kips Bay apartment. Though lionized by the left and worshiped by The New York Times, Berenson, now 46, was no naive idealist. She spent years traveling Central America with Marxist groups until she hooked...

Companies are betting on AI—yet nearly all enterprise pilots are stuck at the starting line. The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat.Despite the rush to integrate powerful new models, about 5% of AI pilot programs achieve rapid revenue acceleration; the vast majority stall, delivering little to no measurable impact on P&L. The research—based on 150 interviews with leaders, a survey of 350 employees, and an analysis of 300 public AI deployments—paints...

When Professor Catherine D’Ignazio isn’t running the “Data + Feminism” lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or organizing “reproductive justice hackathons” she is fighting Donald Trump’s “state terrorism.” The urban studies professor, and “data feminism” scholar, recently explained “how U.S. universities can survive state terrorism” in an essay for Academe Blog. “What distinguishes state terrorism from other routine uses of force is that the violence is designed to ‘send a message’ —to reverberate out into the population, to engender fear, and to shift behavior,” Professor D’Ignazio (pictured) explains. “The US government’s detentions of students such as [Tufts University doctoral...

Billions of people around the world face starvation if Net Zero policies ban the production of nitrogen fertiliser derived from fossil fuels. This is the stark warning from two top American scientists who say that eliminating fossil fuel-derived nitrogen fertilisers and pesticides “will result in about half the world’s population not having enough food to eat”. They add that eliminating Net Zero fertiliser will create “worldwide starvation”. In a wide-ranging paper titled ‘Challenging ‘Net Zero’ with Science‘, Emeritus Professors William Happer and Richard Lindzen of Princeton and MIT respectively, along with geologist Gregory Wrightstone, state that Net Zero – the...

Scientists have long grappled with a fundamental question: what exactly is light?Is it a wave, flowing like ripples across water, or is it made up of tiny particles, like miniature paintballs zipping through space?This fundamental question was at the heart of the double-slit experiment, demonstrating light's dual nature.Just recently, physicists at MIT conducted an experiment using incredible atomic precision.Interestingly, it has definitively resolved a long-standing debate between quantum giants Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr about the elusive nature of light...Einstein believed he could devise an experiment to observe light's particle path and wave interference simultaneously.Bohr, leveraging the uncertainty principle, argued...

As Hamas supporters hurl bogus charges against Israel.Last month, Megha Vemuri, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology class of 2025, denounced the “genocidal Israeli military” and contended that the MIT community “would never tolerate a genocide.” Such proclamations, widely repeated on Ivy League campuses, invite a look at the actual genocide going on 50 years ago.In April, 1975, troops of the communist Khmer Rouge occupied Cambodia’s capital of Phom Penh. One of the last correspondents to leave was David Aikman of Time magazine, author of “Cambodia: An Experiment in Genocide.” As Aikman recalled:After a few hours, the black-uniformed troops...