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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Islamic State group is claiming responsibility for a central Minnesota mall attack that left nine people with stab wounds and the suspect dead. Police haven't named the attacker but a man tells the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that it was his son. Ahmed Adan, who's Somali, says his son, 22-year-old Dahir Adan, came to the U.S. 15 years ago and was a college student in St. Cloud. The attacker was shot dead by an off-duty police officer.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say they're going to blow up the second device found blocks away from where a bomb exploded in Manhattan on Saturday night. The NYPD says the controlled detonation will take place at a police facility in the Bronx this evening. The second device was discovered by state troopers after a bomb exploded in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood on Saturday night. Twenty-nine people were injured in that blast.
NEW YORK (AP) — The United Nations is assessing security in the wake of an explosion in New York' City's Chelsea district as the organization prepares to host world leaders arriving for the General Assembly. A U.N. spokesman says security inside the complex "is being assessed on a constant basis." He says security outside the U.N. is the responsibility of the host country. Twenty-nine people were hurt in last night's blast.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two federal investigators are going to North Carolina to check the tires on a bus that crashed yesterday, killing four people and injuring 42 others on their way to a football game. The North Carolina Highway Patrol says the left front tire of the bus blew out. The driver of the bus died, along with two men with the Ramah Jucco Academy team and a 10-year-old child. Most of the players went to Clinton College in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
SEA ISLE CITY, N.J. (AP) — Officials believe a whale that washed ashore in New Jersey died due to human interaction. WCAU-TV in Philadelphia reports that a necropsy on the 20-ton, 33-foot whale revealed it was emaciated. Officials with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine say the whale may have been caught in fishing line, causing an injury that left the mammal unable to eat enough. They also believe it was hit by a ship after it had died.
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