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A man suspected of killing two people and wounding nine others at Brown University before going on to kill a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has been found dead<\/a> in a New Hampshire storage facility, where he had rented a unit, officials said.<\/p>\n Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national and a former Brown student, was found dead on Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Providence police chief, Oscar Perez, said at a news conference. He added that, as far as investigators knew, the suspect had acted alone.<\/p>\n Leah Foley, the US attorney for Massachusetts, said at a separate news conference in Boston that Neves Valente had also killed Nuno FG Loureiro, the MIT physics professor who was shot in his home on Monday, two days after the attack at Brown.<\/p>\n How has the White House responded to the incident? The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, has ordered the suspension of the green card lottery program at Donald Trump\u2019s direction, saying it had enabled the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to enter the US.<\/p>\n Ukraine deal: EU leaders agree \u20ac90bn loan but without use of frozen Russian assetsUkraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy (right), arrives in Warsaw for talks with his Polish counterpart, Karol Nawrocki. Photograph: Pawe\u0142 Supernak\/EPA<\/p>\n EU leaders have agreed a \u20ac90bn ($105bn) loan for Ukraine<\/a> to meet urgent financial needs, but failed to agree on the preferred approach for securing the loan against Russia\u2019s frozen assets held in the bloc.<\/p>\n After talks ended in the early hours of Friday, the president of the European Council, Ant\u00f3nio Costa, told reporters: \u201cWe committed and we delivered.\u201d He said EU leaders had approved a decision to make a \u20ac90bn loan to Ukraine over the next two years, backed by the EU budget and repayable by Kyiv only once Russia pays reparations.<\/p>\n Costa added: \u201cThe union reserves its right to make use of the immobilised assets to repay this loan.\u201d<\/p>\n What did Volodymyr Zelenskyy say about the deal? The Ukrainian president wrote on social media that the deal \u201cis significant support that truly strengthens our resilience\u201d, adding: \u201cIt is important that Russian assets remain immobilised and that Ukraine has received a financial security guarantee for the coming years.\u201d<\/p>\n Epstein files to be released after months of delays from Trump officialsDemonstrators in Washington in September call for the release of the Epstein files. Photograph: Mehmet Eser\/Middle East Images\/AFP via Getty<\/p>\n Speculation surrounding the affairs of Jeffrey Epstein is expected to reach a defining moment of revelation today with the much-anticipated publication of files<\/a> relating to the disgraced late financier and sex trafficker.<\/p>\n After months of delay and stalling, the Trump administration is legally obliged to publish a vast archive of documents that could shine fresh light on Epstein\u2019s crimes and his connections with powerful public figures, including Trump.<\/p>\n Democrats on the House oversight committee have released a new batch of photos<\/a> from the estate of the convicted sex offender in the run-up to the deadline.<\/p>\n What do the latest pictures show? The images, undated and uncaptioned, include lines from the novel Lolita written on a woman\u2019s body and show Bill Gates and Noam Chomsky. The New York Times columnist David Brooks also appears in several photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n In other news \u2026Advocates for day laborers also demanded that Home Depot speak out against ICE raids in store parking lots. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon\/AFP via Getty ImagesStat of the day: Trump\u2019s $1,776 \u2018warrior dividend\u2019 repurposed from military housing aidParatroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division, in Fort Bragg, at a re-enlistment ceremony in Washington in June. Photograph: Kevin Carter\/Getty Images<\/p>\n When Trump promised a one-time $1,776 payment for 1.45 million US military workers<\/a> to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence during a primetime TV address on Wednesday, he pointed to his preferred source of federal funding: tariffs. In reality, the payments will be financed by repurposing military housing assistance.<\/p>\n Culture pick: The Housemaid review \u2013 Sydney Sweeney takes the job from hell in outrageous suspense thrillerFatal attraction: Sydney Sweeney as Millie Calloway in The Housemaid. Photograph: Daniel McFadden\/AP<\/p>\n The director Paul Feig, best known for broad comedy, cranks up the schlock-serious dial with an outrageously enjoyable \u2013 or at least enjoyably outrageous \u2013 psycho-suspense thriller<\/a> in the vein of 90s erotic noir. Adapted by the screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenshine from Freida McFadden\u2019s 2022 bestseller, the holiday treat is out today.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t miss this: What will your life look like in 2035?Life in 2035: the shape of things to come? Illustration: Jay Cover\/The Guardian<\/p>\n When AIs become consistently more capable than humans, everyday life could change in strange ways. It might happen within the next few years, or take a little longer, but if and when it arrives, our domestic routines \u2013 from trips to the doctor and farming to work and the justice system \u2013 could look radically different. Take a look at how the era of artificial general intelligence<\/a> might feel.<\/p>\n \u2026 or this: Why did Donald Trump Jr turn up in Gibraltar looking for money?Donald Trump Jr, right, leaves a meeting in Gibraltar where he is said to have delivered an \u2018America first\u2019 spiel. Photograph: Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation<\/p>\n The British territory of Gibraltar in the Mediterranean is a hub for the international ultra-rich, and law firm Hassans counts many of them as clients. But few are as highly placed as one visitor on a Friday in November: Donald Trump Jr, who is running the family business while his father is in the White House. The question is: why?<\/a><\/p>\n Climate check: Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxideThe researchers warned of \u2018devastating health consequences\u2019 including hidden hunger. Photograph: Matthew Ashmore\/Alamy<\/p>\n Rising carbon dioxide levels are making food more calorific but less nutritious \u2013 and also potentially more toxic, a study has found<\/a>. \u201cClimate change isn\u2019t a faraway problem,\u201d said Sterre ter Haar, a researcher from Leiden University in the Netherlands. \u201cThe effects are already on our dinner plate.\u201d<\/p>\n Last Thing: South Korean president urges public health cover for hair loss but experts say argument is a bit thinSouth Korea\u2019s president, Lee Jae Myung, is considering extending public health insurance to cover hair-loss treatments. Photograph: Yonhap\/EPA<\/p>\n Lee Jae Myung has instructed his government to consider extending public health insurance to cover hair-loss treatments<\/a>, arguing that baldness has become a \u201cmatter of survival\u201d rather than a cosmetic concern for young people. The proposal has since prompted backlash from medical professionals and conservative figures.<\/p>\n Sign up<\/p>\n Sign up for the US morning briefing<\/p>\n First Thing is delivered to thousands of inboxes every weekday. If you\u2019re not already signed up, subscribe now<\/a>.<\/p>\n Get in touch<\/p>\n