<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The suspect in the Brown University shooting who also allegedly killed an MIT professor two days later is found dead, the Trump administration rolls out new rules to defund hospitals that perform transgender procedures on minors, and a positive economic report shows cooling inflation.</span></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><b>Brown And MIT Shooter Found Dead, Authorities Say</b></h2>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Thursday, police </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brown-shooting-suspect-found-dead-by-suicide-in-new-hampshire-storage-facility"><span style="font-weight: 400;">found</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the body of the man who they said was responsible for the deaths of two students at Brown University and a professor at MIT. Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, died by suicide in a storage locker he had rented in New Hampshire. His last known address was in Miami, Florida, but he originally came from Portugal. Authorities said he attended Brown in the early 2000s as a PhD student, but he never completed the program. New Hampshire authorities said Neves Valente also attended the same academic program in Portugal as MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, who was found dead in his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, earlier this week. According to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Neves Valente “entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card.” Noem said Thursday night she had </span><a href="https://x.com/sec_noem/status/2001873077089767435"><span style="font-weight: 400;">paused</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the DV1 program at President Donald Trump’s direction.</span></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><b>Trump Cuts Funds To Hospitals Performing Trans Treatments</b></h2>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Trump administration has moved to cut off federal funding for hospitals performing transgender procedures and surgeries on minors, a fulfillment of a major Trump campaign promise. A number of new rules are being applied to cut off federal funding to any facility that performs trans procedures on children, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgical operations. The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) will bar hospitals from performing any of these procedures on children under 18 as a condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid programs. New rules will also block funding of Medicaid’s Children’s Health Insurance Program for trans procedures on anyone under 19. That program, known as CHIP, covers millions of kids nationwide.</span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><b>Inflation Cools</b></h2>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">November’s Consumer Price Index report </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-report-surprises-economists-as-key-metric-drops-to-lowest-level-since-2021"><span style="font-weight: 400;">shows</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that inflation cooled last month, defying expert predictions and providing political relief for President Trump. The report was especially important, as it was the first since September. The October report was lost to the federal shutdown. Economists had originally predicted a month-over-month rise of 3.1%, but inflation actually came in at 2.7%. That is down from a peak 9% in 2022 under President Joe Biden. Looking at core inflation, which strips out prices on volatile goods such as food and gas, the numbers appear even better. In November, CPI was 2.6%, the lowest since March 2021. The Trump administration took a victory lap on Thursday, and investors were also thrilled by the news, as the DOW, NASDAQ, and S&amp;P 500 all climbed significantly.</span></p>

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