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The man who fired more than 180 shots with a long gun at the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention broke into a locked safe to get his father’s weapons and wanted to send a message against COVID-19 vaccines, authorities said Tuesday. Documents found in a search of the home where Patrick Joseph White lived with his parents expressed the shooters discontent with the COVID-19 vaccinations, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said. White, 30, had written about wanting to make the public aware of his discontent with the vaccine, Hosey said. White also had recently verbalized thoughts of suicide, which led to law enforcement being contacted several weeks before the shooting, Hosey said. He died at the scene Friday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing a police officer. Asked about threats based on misinformation regarding the CDC and its vaccine work, FBI Special Agent Paul Brown said Tuesday: Weve not seen an uptick, although any rhetoric that suggests or leads to violence is something we take very seriously. Although we are tracking it, we are sensitive to it. We have not seen that uptick, said Brown, who leads the FBIs Atlanta division. The suspects family was fully cooperating with the investigation, authorities said at the Tuesday news briefing. White had no known criminal history, Hosey said. Executing a search warrant at the family’s home in the Atlanta suburb of Kennesaw, authorities recovered written documents that are being analyzed, and seized electronic devices that are undergoing a forensic examination, the agency said. Investigators also recovered a total of five firearms, including a gun belonging to his father that he used in the attack, Hosey said. Hosey said the suspect did not have a key to the gun safe: He broke into it, he said. White had been stopped by CDC security guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street, where he opened fire from a sidewalk, authorities said. The bullets pierced blast-resistant windows across the campus, pinning employees down during the barrage. More than 500 shell casings have been recovered from the crime scene, the GBI said. In the aftermath, officials at the CDC are assessing the security of the campus and making sure they notify officials of any new threats. U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. toured the CDC campus on Monday, accompanied by Deputy Secretary Jim ONeill and CDC Director Susan Monarez, according to a health agency statement. No one should face violence while working to protect the health of others, Kennedy said in a statement Saturday. It said top federal health officials are actively supporting CDC staff. Kennedy also visited the DeKalb County Police Department, and later met privately with the slain officers wife. A photo of the suspect will be released later Tuesday, Hosey said, but he encouraged the public to remember the face of the officer instead. Kennedy was a leader in a national anti-vaccine movement before President Donald Trump selected him to oversee federal health agencies, and he has made false and misleading statements about the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 shots and other vaccines. Some unionized CDC employees called for more protections. Some employees who recently left the agency as the Trump administration pursues widespread layoffs, meanwhile, squarely blamed Kennedy. Years of false rhetoric about vaccines and public health was bound to take a toll on peoples mental health, and leads to violence, said Tim Young, a CDC employee who retired in April. By Charlotte Kramon and Jeff Martin, Associated Press
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The Oklahoma City Thunder felt slighted last season when they were left off the NBAs Christmas schedule. That wont be an issue this year. MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the NBA champion Thunder will be working at home for Christmas this season, playing host to Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs as part of the leagues annual Dec. 25 quintuple-header. BetMGM Sportsbook has the Thunder favored by 9.5 points. The other Christmas games, released by the NBA on Tuesday: Cleveland at New York (favored at -2.5), Houston at LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers (-1.5), No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg and Dallas visiting Golden State (-4.5), and Minnesota playing at Denver (-4.5). Some NBA Cup games are scheduled to be released Wednesday, and the full schedule80 of the 82 games for all teamsis to be released on Thursday. The remaining two games for each club will be filled in December based on how teams fare in the NBA Cup. They make the schedule. We play it, Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said last season, when asked about his club not being picked for the Dec. 25 lineup. Our players, I know, would have liked to play on Christmas because thats such a staple day in the NBA season. But we cant control that. Well, they sort of did control their Christmas scheduling fate this season. The NBA champions typically get invited to play on Christmas the following season; Oklahoma City beat Indiana in a seven-game NBA Finals last season. The Eastern Conference champion Pacers are among the Christmas snubs this year, after losing Tyrese Haliburton to an Achilles tear that will sideline him for the entirety of this season and seeing Myles Turner opt to sign with Milwaukee in free agency. The Knicks will be playing their 58th Christmas game, extending their NBA record. The first Christmas game in league history was at Madison Square Garden in 1947. Boston, Philadelphia, and Phoenix played on Christmas last season and didnt make the Dec. 25 cut this season, replaced by Cleveland (which was the Easts No. 1 seed), Houston (which landed Kevin Durant in an offseason blockbuster from the Suns), and the Thunder. Cleveland and the Thunder are playing on Christmas for the first time since 2018. The Rockets have a Christmas game for the first time since 2019. James, if he plays on the holiday, will be making his 20th Christmas appearance in his record 23rd NBA season. Only 12 NBA franchises have 20 Christmas games, and James could soon have that many as a player. And it’ll be a big NBA holiday in Texas: All three of the state’s teams are playing on Christmas for the first time. Opening night NBCs return to the NBA broadcast world officially starts with opening night on Oct. 21, when the Thunder (favored by 6.5 points) will receive their championship rings before playing host to Durant and the Rockets in the first game of the season. That will be followed by Stephen Curry, Jimmy Butler, and Golden State taking on James, Luka Doncic, and the Lakers (-3.5) in the second game of the NBC doubleheader. Those are the only two games on opening night. MLK Day Peacock and NBC will have four games on Jan. 19, which is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The matchups: Milwaukee at Atlanta on Peacock at 1 p.m. ET, followed by three games on NBC: Oklahoma City at Cleveland at 2:30 p.m. ET, Dallas at New York at 5 p.m. ET, and Boston at Detroit at 8 p.m. ET. Memphis, which typically plays on the holiday, is not this season. The Grizzlies will be returning from Europe, after facing Orlando on Jan. 15 in Berlin and Jan. 18 in London.
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Shares of major U.S. carriers jumped on Tuesday after upbeat airfare data for July signaled improving pricing power for the industry, as airlines bring capacity in check to align with a soft demand environment. Shares of legacy carriers United Airlines, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines jumped nearly 10% each, while budget rival Southwest Airlines gained 4% in afternoon trading. Smaller peers Alaska Air and JetBlue Airways rose about 10% each and low-cost carrier Frontier Group surged 22%. Data from the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday showed airfares rose 4% in July after slipping 0.1% in June, marking their first increase in six months. Uncertainty stemming from President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs and budget cuts has prompted travelers to curb discretionary spending and reassess plans. A soft demand environment, particularly from budget-conscious domestic travelers, had forced carriers to discount fares, squeezing margins despite summer typically being their peak money-making season. Airlines have since been trimming seats on offer and readjusting routes to keep their pricing power in control and shield margins. During their second-quarter earnings calls in July, major executives expressed confidence in the industry’s ability to cut capacity and boost airfares in the latter part of the year. Shivansh Tiwary, Reuters Shares of major U.S. carriers jumped on Tuesday after upbeat airfare data for July signaled improving pricing power for the industry, as airlines bring capacity in check to align with a soft demand environment. Shares of legacy carriers United Airlines, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines jumped nearly 10% each, while budget rival Southwest Airlines gained 4% in afternoon trading. Smaller peers Alaska Air and JetBlue Airways rose about 10% each and low-cost carrier Frontier Group surged 22%. Data from the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday showed airfares rose 4% in July after slipping 0.1% in June, marking their first increase in six months. Uncertainty stemming from President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs and budget cuts has prompted travelers to curb discretionary spending and reassess plans. A soft demand environment, particularly from budget-conscious domestic travelers, had forced carriers to discount fares, squeezing margins despite summer typically being their peak money-making season. Airlines have since been trimming seats on offer and readjusting routes to keep their pricing power in control and shield margins. During their second-quarter earnings calls in July, major executives expressed confidence in the industry’s ability to cut capacity and boost airfares in the latter part of the year. Shivansh Tiwary, Reuters
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