WEBVTT 00:00.420 --> 00:04.000 JUDY WOODRUFF: In the day's other news: At least three students were killed after a shooting 00:04.000 --> 00:09.000 at their high school in Southeastern Michigan. Police say the gunman was a 15-year-old sophomore 00:10.050 --> 00:15.050 arrested at the scene about 40 miles north of Detroit. At least eight people were wounded, 00:15.800 --> 00:16.800 including a teacher. 00:16.800 --> 00:20.100 MIKE MCCABE, Oakland County, Michigan, Undersheriff: We will get to the bottom of this. We're exercising 00:20.100 --> 00:21.960 a search warrant at the suspect's house. 00:21.960 --> 00:24.720 We have talked to the parents. And all I can tell you is, they didn't want their son to 00:24.720 --> 00:26.730 talk to us, and they have hired an attorney. 00:26.730 --> 00:30.890 JUDY WOODRUFF: There is no indication that the alleged shooter had any prior run-ins 00:30.890 --> 00:32.220 with police. 00:32.220 --> 00:37.220 A federal appeals court today upheld California's ban on high-capacity firearms magazines. The 00:39.030 --> 00:44.030 state wants to limit magazines to 10 bullets. A smaller panel of the same appeals court 00:45.280 --> 00:50.280 had found the ban on magazines with higher capacity was unconstitutional. Gun owner groups 00:51.170 --> 00:54.890 vowed to take the case of the U.S. Supreme Court. 00:54.890 --> 00:59.890 The Federal Reserve may accelerate a shift in its focus away from holding down interest 01:00.299 --> 01:05.299 rates to holding down prices. Fed Chair Jerome Powell appeared before senators today with 01:06.369 --> 01:11.369 Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. He said inflation worries could bring a quicker end to the policy 01:12.810 --> 01:15.259 of buying bonds to keep rates low. 01:15.259 --> 01:18.590 JEROME POWELL, Federal Reserve Chairman: We now look at an economy that's very strong 01:18.590 --> 01:20.530 and inflationary pressures that are high. 01:20.530 --> 01:25.329 And I -- that means it's appropriate, I think, for us to discuss at our next meeting, which 01:25.329 --> 01:30.329 is in a couple weeks, whether it will be appropriate to wrap up our purchases a few months earlier. 01:31.210 --> 01:36.030 JUDY WOODRUFF: Powell's comments and worries about the Omicron variant hit Wall Street 01:36.030 --> 01:37.030 hard. 01:37.030 --> 01:42.030 The major indexes fell 1.5 to 2 percent. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 652 points 01:44.229 --> 01:49.229 to close at 34483. The Nasdaq shed 245 points. The S&P 500 was down 88. 01:52.799 --> 01:57.799 Former President Trump's lawyers former President Trump's White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows 01:57.960 --> 02:02.960 has begun cooperating with a congressional probe of the Capitol assault last January. 02:03.850 --> 02:08.850 The committee's chair said today that Meadows has turned over records and will give a deposition. 02:09.979 --> 02:14.260 For now, the committee has put off plans to hold him in contempt. 02:14.260 --> 02:19.260 In Afghanistan, there is word that the Taliban has killed or abducted more than 100 former 02:20.319 --> 02:25.319 police and intelligence officers since seizing power in August. Human Rights Watch reports 02:26.349 --> 02:31.349 Taliban commanders have carried out night raids. They initially promised amnesty to 02:31.760 --> 02:36.360 those who are now being attacked or targeted. 02:36.360 --> 02:41.360 The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, issued a new warning to NATO today over Ukraine. 02:42.269 --> 02:47.269 He said Russia will have to act if the alliance places advanced missiles in Ukraine. He spoke 02:48.450 --> 02:50.620 during an online forum in Moscow. 02:50.620 --> 02:55.040 VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian President (through translator): Creating such threats in Ukraine 02:55.040 --> 03:00.040 poses red lines for us. But I hope it doesn't come to that. I hope that common sense and 03:00.079 --> 03:04.060 a responsibility for both our countries and the world community will prevail. 03:04.060 --> 03:09.060 JUDY WOODRUFF: The U.S. and NATO warned today that Moscow will pay a high price if it invades 03:10.130 --> 03:11.130 Ukraine. 03:11.130 --> 03:16.130 Tens of thousands of protesters turned out in Sudan today, in the latest demonstrations 03:16.860 --> 03:21.860 against last month's military coup. Security forces fired tear gas at the crowds in Khartoum. 03:24.110 --> 03:27.830 Protesters also marched in other cities around the country. 03:27.830 --> 03:32.830 Barbados became a republic today, after nearly 400 years of allegiance to Britain. It is 03:34.180 --> 03:39.180 the Caribbean's first such transition since the 1970s. A ceremony in the capital, Bridgetown, 03:40.940 --> 03:45.940 marked the event, with Britain's Prince Charles and island native Rihanna taking part. The 03:47.250 --> 03:50.650 singer was named a national hero. 03:50.650 --> 03:55.650 Back in this country, New York has become the first major city to open legal safe havens 03:56.090 --> 04:01.090 for people to inject heroin or other narcotics. Supporters say that the supervised sites will 04:02.269 --> 04:07.269 save lives. Opponents say it amounts to sanctioning drug abuse. Rhode Island is the only state 04:09.129 --> 04:12.610 to allow supervised injection sites. 04:12.610 --> 04:17.610 And the late Josephine Baker, famed entertainer, French resistance member, and civil rights 04:18.470 --> 04:23.470 advocate, was inducted into the Pantheon in Paris today. She is the first Black woman 04:23.880 --> 04:28.880 and first American-born recipient of France's highest honor. Military officers carried a 04:30.480 --> 04:35.480 symbolic empty coffin to the mausoleum. Baker's remains are interred in Monaco, where she 04:36.880 --> 04:41.410 was living at the time of her death in 1975. 04:41.410 --> 04:46.410 Still to come on the "NewsHour": the Supreme Court prepares to hear a major abortion case; 04:47.070 --> 04:52.070 Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes on the stand; how a Los Angeles artist draws attention to 04:53.770 --> 04:58.770 under-told stories using murals; plus much more.