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The shooting at a congressional baseball practice reminds us of something we too often forget: We are one country, and we’re all in this together. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.

1. Congressional shooting

We could see the first arrests in connection with the ongoing Russia investigation today, and that could be, to put it mildly, a game changer. On Friday, a federal grand jury in Washington approved the first charges

2. President Trump

Kori Ali Muhammad was already a wanted man before police say he killed three people in a shooting spree in downtown Fresno, California. Police had been looking for him in the killing of a motel security guard. He told cops he thought the guard disrespected him. But Muhammad wasn’t going down just for killing a guard, Fresno’s police chief said, so he tried “to kill as many people as he could.” The victim’s loved ones are devastated, especially their kids. Racism – Muhammad said he hated white men – is thought to be the primary motive in the rampage, so police are calling it a hate crime. But it’s not always clear what the criteria are for labeling an act of violence a hate crime or terrorism.

3. London fire

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The “No Spin Zone” is no more. Fox News let Bill O’Reilly go and canceled “The O’Reilly Factor,” after weeks of pressure, an advertiser exodus and an internal investigation into sexual harassment claims against the show host. It is a shocking end of an era. O’Reilly essentially was Fox News for the 21 years he was there, and just three weeks ago, the notion that something could knock him from his perch would have been unbelievable. Fox insiders say he wasn’t particularly liked but was considered invincible. Obviously, he wasn’t.

Puerto Rico’s power authority is working to cancel a controversial contract it awarded to a small Montana-based utility company in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. The $300 million deal with Whitefish Energy has drawn widespread scrutiny. For one, the company’s only two years old and had just a few employees at the time the storm hit. It’s also based in the small hometown of US Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Zinke says he had nothing to do with the contract, and the White House has also said it’s “not aware of any federal involvement in the selection.” 

4. Fed rate hike

Wow, the feds really screwed this up. The top federal banking regulator says that years ago, officials saw lots of red flags at Wells Fargo that could have stopped the fake accounts scandal. We’re talking, like, hundreds of whistleblower complaints about the bank’s aggressive sales tactics. An internal report says the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency provided “ineffective” oversight of the bank. The regulator did confront a Wells Fargo exec about the complaints but apparently didn’t follow up. Bank leaders say they’ve eliminated the unrealistic sales goals that drove the scandal.

5. Fried potatoes study

Hundreds of thousands of anti-independence protesters rallied in the Catalan capital of Barcelona yesterday after Madrid took unprecedented measures to quash the region’s bid to split from Spain.

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He wrote tunes every garage band guitarist had to learn if they wanted to enter the rock ‘n’ roll fellowship. Chuck Berry, rock’s greatest practitioner, has died. 

Chuck Berry performs at the Congress Theater on January 1, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
Legendary musician Chuck Berry dies at 90
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My hero

DVRs help us zip through commercials; now Netflix is letting us skip the intros of our favorite shows. Because we’re really busy people, you know.

The Astros beat the Dodgers in a wild World Series Game 5 

Not funny

Lots of people cracked jokes after Kim K. was robbed in Paris last fall, but she talked about it on her TV show for the first time, and it was no laughing matter.

ID and your papers, please

They asked their waiter for a drink; he asked for some ID … and proof of residency. Spoiler alert – he was fired.

Pot party

Sales talk

Having trouble moving those boxes of Thin Mints? Better get some advice from America’s top Girl Scout Cookie seller. We’re talking 100,000 boxes sold!

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AND FINALLY …

Like the rest of us, Buddy the beagle probably had a challenging week, so he lets off some steam by tickling the ivories. (Click to view)

Did you know ducks have jobs? Here’s more than 1,000 of them marching off to a South African vineyard, where they’re paid to eat snails. (Click to view)