EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you the five biggest stories of the day.
1. #COLORADO: A lone shooter killed four people and wounded three more, including a police officer, last night after opening fire in multiple locations across Colorado before being shot dead.
2. #ROAD DEATHS: In total, 132 people have died on Irish roads and 50 people on Northern Irish roads to date in 2021, prompting the Road Safety Authority (RSA) to issue a warning to drivers and other road users.
3. #BELFAST: A large fire has broken out in a waste land area of the Belfast Harbour Estate in Belfast.
4. #CLIMATE: The head of the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (Ibec) said that planned changes to Ireland’s carbon budgets could hit the economy for €7.8 billion a year and cost 38,000 jobs.
5. #ORANGUTAN: A critically endangered Sumatran orangutan in New Orleans has given birth to a healthy male baby, but his twin brother died in the womb, officials at the Audubon Zoo said.
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