Bondi Beach Attack, Brown University Latest, Reiner Investigation
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🗓️ 15 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | At least 15 people were shot and killed at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. |
| 0:06.7 | The country's prime minister condemned the attack. |
| 0:09.3 | What we saw yesterday was an act of pure evil, an act of anti-Semitism. |
| 0:14.6 | Tommy Martinez, that is Steve Inskeep, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:21.1 | Authorities say they will release a person of interest detained after the Brown University |
| 0:25.6 | shooting. |
| 0:26.3 | This is what these investigations look like. |
| 0:28.8 | I've been around long enough to know that sometimes you head in one direction and then |
| 0:33.1 | you have to regroup and go in another. |
| 0:34.8 | And that's exactly what has happened over the last 24 hours |
| 0:38.2 | of so. So where does the release leave the investigation? And police are investigating the reported |
| 0:42.9 | deaths of actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle. Stay with us. We've got all the |
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