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Some of the other headlines you need to know this morning, the sheriff's deputy accused of felony child neglect for his failure to intervene during the school shooting in Parkland, Florida in 2018 was acquitted of all charges. Yesterday, Deputy Scott Peterson was seen openly weeping in the courtroom as the not guilty verdict was read, Peterson was charged in connection with the six killed, four wounded students who were shot more than a minute after he arrived at the building in the aftermath of the verdict, Peterson had this to say we've got our life back after 4.5 years because of Mark and being able to put the truth out of what happened. It's been an emotional roller coaster for so long. Peterson went on to say that the only person to blame was that monster referring to the shooter. Speaking about the Sheriff's department and other law enforcement, Peterson said, quote, we did the best we could with the information. We had a man who attended the January 6 insurrection was arrested yesterday near the home of former President Obama. That's according to law enforcement officials, Taylor Taranto was chased by secret service officials after being spotted near the former president's home. He was arrested in charges connection to the insurrection. Law enforcement said he was found with weapons and materials that could be used to make an explosive device and has made threats against a public figure on social media. No one was injured in the pursuit or the arrest protesters hit the streets of Washington DC yesterday after a landmark decision from the Supreme Court ruled affirmative action policies at two universities are unconstitutional, limiting the role of race in college admissions. Former first lady Michelle Obama, who attended Princeton and Harvard released a statement saying that affirmative action quote helped offer new ladders of opportunity for those who have been too often been denied a chance. Former President Trump shared his support for the verdict writing quote, this is the ruling, everyone was waiting and hoping for and the result was amazing and four NFL players were suspended for sports betting violations in the 2022 season, Isaiah Rogers and Rashad Barry of the Indianapolis Colts and free agent Demetrius Taylor will be suspended indefinitely and will not be able to seek reinstatement until the end of the 2023 season. Rogers and Barry have been waived by the Colts as a result of the suspension. According to ESPN Rogers placed at least 100 bets on NFL games including one involving the Colts, Nicholas Petit Frayer of the Tennessee Titans will also be suspended for the first six games of the 2023 season for placing bets on non NFL games from the Titans practice facility. A federal judge rejected former President Donald Trump's claims of presidential immunity yesterday in a defamation lawsuit filed by writer Eugene Carroll. Carroll sued Trump for defamation in 2019 for comments he made about her after she accused him of raping her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 19 nineties. Trump said Carroll was at his type and suggested she fabricated the accusations to sell her book. The former president had filed a motion for summary judgment to dismiss the lawsuit. The judge ruled that Trump would not be able to use presidential immunity since he failed to make that claim when the lawsuit was filed in 2019. While of course, he was still president. An electrical fire broke out at the iconic Tiffany and company store in New York City. The fire started yesterday inside a vault that provides power to the Tiffany's building on Fifth Avenue. The fire did not spread to the store itself but firefighters evacuated about 100 people just as a precaution that gray smoke could be seen coming out of the building. Firefighters said the fire started in the morning around 9:30 a.m. and was under control. By noon, two people did sustain minor injuries. A Texas grand jury announced yesterday that rapper Travis Scott will not face any criminal charges in connection to the November 2021 Astro World Festival tragedy in Houston, Texas that left 10 people dead and thousands injured. The grand jury said it also won't indict the five of other people who were connected to the Festival District attorney involved in the investigation referred to the deaths as a tragedy and said, quote, not every death is a homicide. The 2021 concert turned to chaos when people swarmed the front of the stage during Scott's performance, country music singer Kelsey Ballerini briefly paused to show in Boise, Idaho on Wednesday after she was hit in the face by a bracelet thrown on stage by someone in the audience. The singer posted to her Instagram yesterday saying she was fine and that the incident scared her more than it actually hurt her. The singer said she had to step off stage, you know, to calm down before resuming the show. No arrests have been made in connection to the incident earlier this month. We told you singer BB Rex was also so hit in the face that time with the phone while she was performing here in New York City, a 27 year old was arrested and charged with assault. What is wrong with? I don't know what's going on. I mean, we saw just a maybe even a year ago uh kid Cutty was screaming at fans because they were throwing things on stage at him last week, Ava Max, the pop singer also was assaulted by somebody at a show that came by and just slapped her as well. Had somebody, somebody's ashes thrown on. Exactly. So, I don't know what is going on right now, but clearly there has to be some sort of security or beefed up security to protect these artists right here because we saw the photos of Vivi Rex from last year. She had stitches inside of her eye for no reason whatsoever. Fans have to be so much smarter about going remember the fan that or the man that was charged said he just thought it'd be funny. Right. Exactly. Which it wasn't, it was not funny.