Tragedy struck at a central Swedish school as police confirmed the victim of a gruesome sword attack was a 17-year-old girl.

On Friday, an 18-year-old man wielding a sword unleashed terror at the Brinell School in Fagersta. This small town, situated northwest of Stockholm, witnessed chaos in the midst of normal school activities.

The assault resulted in the death of one individual and left three others injured, with two of those victims enduring severe injuries.

Authorities reported they have apprehended the suspect, and the incident is now under investigation as a case of murder along with attempted murder charges.

The police have assured the public there is no indication of additional individuals involved in the attack.

Vastmanland County, where the town is located, said that the two seriously injured boys were ages 12 and 17.

A third person, also under 18, was slightly injured and has been discharged from a hospital, Swedish news agency TT reported.

The school principal told local media P4 Västmanland on Saturday that the attacker was a student at the school.

The police said they fired shots during its action on Friday but the attacker was not hit.

On Saturday morning, around 70 people gathered at the memorial site that the municipality prepared, carrying flowers and lighting candles, TT reported.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, who visited the site on Saturday, expressed solidarity with the families affected by the attack and with those impacted by previous school attacks in Sweden.

“What must never happen has happened again,” Kristersson said.

Kristersson was joined in Fagersta by Magdalena Andersson, leader of the main opposition Social Democrats.

With Sweden’s parliamentary election due in September, political parties suspended campaign events on Saturday.

Kristersson also invited all party leaders to a meeting to discuss the progress of the investigation.

There was no official information on the attacker’s possible motive.

Sweden’s national police said that investigators have already carried out two house searches in connection with the suspect. Many witnesses were expected to be interviewed as part of the investigation.

The region went into a state of emergency on Friday, but it had ended by Saturday.

Sweden has seen a series of violent school attacks over the years.

Last year, 11 people, including the gunman, died after an attack at an education center in Örebro in central Sweden, leading the government to propose tougher gun laws.

It’s considered to be the worst mass shooting in the country’s history.

In 2022, an 18-year-old man attacked two female teachers with a knife and an ax in a school in Malmo, killing them.

In 2015, a 21-year-old local man rampaged through a school in the southern industrial city of Trollhattan, stabbing three people to death before being fatally shot by police.

Authorities called it a racist hate crime, saying he methodically selected dark-skinned victims at Trollhattan’s Kronan school, where most students are foreign-born.

In Missouri, a dramatic scene unfolded when officers attempting to arrest a sex offender found themselves in a precarious situation as the wooden deck they stood on gave way, sending them crashing down from the second story.

The startling incident, captured on body camera footage, occurred on July 21 in Huntsville. Among those who fell were nine officers, including members from the US Marshals Service.

The video, shared by the US Marshals Service on Wednesday, reveals a tense moment as the officers, some armed and ready, lined up outside an apartment door on Vaunita Street’s 400 block before the structure beneath them suddenly failed.

According to the Associated Press, the officers were on the verge of apprehending 26-year-old Jacob Alexander Munoz, who was wanted for failing to register as a sex offender, when the unexpected collapse occurred.

This multi-agency effort drew personnel from the Randolph County Sheriff’s Department, the Moberly Police Department, and the North Missouri Drug Task Force, highlighting the collaborative approach to law enforcement in the region.

Seven officers were treated and released from the hospital for injuries ‘consistent with a pretty serious fall,’ according to Steven Lewis, the US Marshal for the Eastern District of Missouri.

Their injuries included broken bones but were not life threatening, Lewis said.

Munoz was taken into custody later that day, according to the US Marshals Service cited by FOX News.

Munoz was convicted of possessing child pornography in July 2022, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol Sex Offender Registry.

His victim was listed as a girl between the ages of nine and 13 and the offense happened in March 2020 in Randolph County, per the registry.

Munoz was described as a 5–foot–11, 140 pound white man with brown eyes. A recent picture showed that his shoulder–length hair had been dyed in a reddish hue.

Past photos showed him with shorter, darker hair and glasses in 2024, as well as a buzzcut type of hairstyle in 2022.

The registry noted that Munoz had been released from his confinement on September 24, 2024, and that his parole was set to end on June 24, 2028.

As of Saturday, Munoz was listed as ‘compliant’ in the Missouri sex offender registry.

The US Marshals Service said Wednesday on X that ‘unexpected hazards can arise at any moment during an enforcement operation.’

It said the footage highlighted ‘both the unpredictable dangers law enforcement faces and the discipline and preparedness of the team under extreme conditions.

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The agency pointed out how none of the officers’ firearms had discharged amid their fall to the ground.

Lewis had said in July when deck collapse happened that it was ‘almost as if a trap door opened,’ according to ABC17.

‘Not away from the structure, but straight down, which gave them almost no time to react,’ Lewis said.

Four of the seven injured law enforcement officers were Deputy US Marshals, two North Missouri Drug Task Force members and one a county deputy.

The Randolph County Sheriff’s Department was serving an arrest warrant in coordination with the US Marshals Service.

Lewis said all of the officers were taken to hospitals for treatment. None of their injuries were life–threatening, but some could require surgery.

‘All received injuries that would be consistent with a pretty serious fall,’ Lewis told the outlet.

‘Some broken bones, some other type injuries,’ he continued.

Huntsville resident Melanie Foster voiced her concern about the state of the apartment complex

‘The drugs that are in and out of here, it’s terrible,’ Foster told the outlet. ‘I won’t be sad if it goes.’

She called the building a ‘hazard’ and a ‘danger,’ pointing to the deck collapse that made it impossible to normally reach three of the six upstairs units.

‘If that happened, as you can see, the next half is getting ready to go,’ Foster added.

Some residents were spotted using a ladder to gather belongings from an apartment and load them into a car, per the outlet.

The Daily Mail has reached out to the US Marshals Service for further comment.

In a recent discourse, podcaster Joe Rogan advised Democrats that shedding their “woke” label requires transparency. He suggested they need to openly identify the flaws in their past policies and explain the rationale behind previously supporting them.

Rogan questioned, “If you championed ‘defund the police’ without fully considering its ramifications, then let’s discuss the impact. What exactly did you expect to achieve and how did that work out for you?” He was pressing liberals on whether they thoroughly contemplated the fallout from advocating for police defunding.

He went on to assert that there’s a potential path to redemption, but it hinges on candor. “To earn genuine trust, admit where mistakes were made,” Rogan emphasized while reflecting on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks about the evolution of “woke” culture.

“Acknowledge your missteps, and genuinely express your thoughts on those errors,” he urged. He stressed the importance of honesty and sincerity, highlighting that people need to sense the embarrassment over misguided decisions and recognize the herd mentality that was followed.

Rogan cautioned, “Without that acknowledgment, you’re stuck in pretense. Persisting in deception only deepens the disillusionment over time, and that’s how politicians often end up disillusioned themselves.”

Later in the same podcast, Rogan’s guest, YouTuber Chris Williamson, voiced skepticism that Democrats would have ever distanced themselves from Woke 1.0 in the first place if former Vice President Kamala Harris had won the election.

“Think about what would have happened if Kamala had won,” he said. “Would AOC have been talking about Woke 1.0 was crazy or would that have been a continuation of, ‘Well, look, we put the policies out, people like the policies.’ How much of this is a reversal of the position because it wasn’t effective?”

Fox News Digital reached out to Ocasio-Cortez’s office for comment. 

Commentators across the political spectrum voiced doubts about whether the modern Democratic Party actually plans to pivot from far-left cultural issues.

“I don’t believe the Democrats want to be seen backing away from wokeness, especially now that they’re sharing a ‘big tent’ from people who want to empty the prisons,” Media Research Center’s NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham told Fox News Digital. 

“They’re just less confident than they were in 2020, when they could proclaim that race riots are ‘rebellions’ and violence was an acceptable method to create the social change they wanted. It was like political Drano.”

Democratic consultant and former House Judiciary Committee minority chief counsel Julian Epstein offered a stern warning to his party.

“There is not much difference between Woke 1 and Woke 2. They both involve the commodification of grievance and rage, and then the packaging of lunatic ideas that do little to help voters and seek to make them permanent wards of the state,” he said. 

“This is completely different from Democrats of the ’90s who would proclaim the U.S. as the best opportunity machine ever invented and then try to give people agency.”

Mary Marslender, a Republican consultant and the president and founder of Leverage PR, suggested that talk of ditching Woke 1.0 in vague terms is a cynical strategy.

“The vague talk of ditching ‘Woke 1.0’ is a temporary political strategy; it’s not genuine course correction,” she said. 

“Democrats refuse to specifically call out the craziness; they have yet to stand up for women by preventing biological males in women’s sports, stop the DEI agenda in our schools and institutions or advocate for safe communities by stopping their support of soft-on-crime progressive prosecutors. Additionally, their lack of concrete policy reversals is revealing.

“Democrats wanting to distance themselves from Woke 1 have claimed they want to ‘fix our broken immigration system,’ but such rhetoric rings hollow when they oppose interior enforcement, call to abolish ICE, defend violent illegals who have crossed our borders and unequivocally support sanctuary cities. 

“Had Harris prevailed, the same coalition that championed the 1619 Project, policing reforms adjacent to defunding and gender ideology in schools would have viewed any moderation as betrayal,” she added. 

“It’s power, not principle, that drives the Democrat Party. Until Democrats can explicitly admit fault and demonstrate a serious reversal of Woke 1, American voters are right to treat the so-called ‘post-woke’ shift as a temporary political strategy rather than a genuine course correction.”

Former Republican National Committee spokesperson Elizabeth Pipko said recent events indicate Democrats are simply responding to which way the wind blows.

“Democrats of today tend to turn with the wind,” she said. “Depending on what is most popular with their base, that’s what you’ll hear from candidates during the primaries. And then, during the presidential election, you’ll notice the Democrat nominee pretending they never supported abolishing police, men in women’s sports or abolishing [ICE].

“Watching Democrats in 2026 pretending they never called for defunding the police has been incredibly entertaining considering almost all of them still have old posts up clearly advocating for that very policy,” Pipko continued. 

“Considering how much damage some of these views have caused, it is extremely pompous to simply dismiss this time in our politics as ‘Woke 1.’ This shows how little Democrats actually believe in the what they say or do.”

Theo Wold, former White House deputy assistant for domestic policy under Trump and former assistant attorney general, suggested that even Rogan was not showing enough skepticism toward the Democrats.

“AOC’s sarcastic dismissal of Woke 1.0 isn’t a sign that Democrats are abandoning a leftist agenda. It’s a sign that they’re moving on to Ohase 2 of their project,” he said. 

“She now casually laughs at the radical ideas she actively promoted just a few years ago. And Joe Rogan, unfortunately, is too gullible to see the truth: This is who Democrats are,” Wold added. 

“They won’t abandon these ideas or apologize for them because they believe them, and when in power, they will ruthlessly advance them.”

Thousands have been urgently evacuated from their homes as the colossal Hawk Fire blazes through over 10,000 acres in Nevada.

By Saturday evening, the rapidly expanding inferno had grown to 10,523 acres, triggering evacuation directives in northwest Reno and the North Valleys, as reported by KRXI2.

By late Saturday, firefighters had yet to establish any containment of this volatile blaze, which had earlier been estimated to cover roughly 3,000 acres.

Immediate evacuation orders were issued for areas north and northwest of Somersett, north of Verdi, the west side of Golden Valley, Lemmon Valley, and Stead. Additional sections of these locations were placed on alert to prepare for potential evacuation.

Overall, more than 6,000 residents found themselves subject to some form of evacuation mandate.

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, a Republican, declared a state of emergency in Washoe County, where Reno is, because of the Hawk Fire, which he said was ‘spreading quickly and threatening homes and structures.’ 

He reiterated the evacuation orders and noted that the fire was an ‘active and rapidly evolving situation.’ 

The Hawk Fire started around 11.30am on Saturday about one mile north of Cold Creek Trail, near Somersett, according to the Reno Gazette Journal.

Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve, an independent, said Saturday night that structures had already been burned as a result of the fire, though she did not share specific details.

‘Your life is more important than a building,’ Schieve said. ‘Evacuating before the fire arrives also allows our firefighters to focus their efforts on battling the blaze.’

The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office in Reno urged locals to ‘GO NOW’ Saturday evening on X, alongside a photo depicting a gigantic plume of smoke. 

An evacuation site had been set up at Hall 4 of the Reno Sparks Convention Center on 4590 S. Virginia Street, authorities said.

The Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District said earlier that the fire was moving northeast towards North Virginia Street between Seneca Drive and Copperfield Drive.

It threatened roughly 1,000 homes as a result, according to the fire district.

As the fire continues to spread, authorities are expected to issue new updates and evacuation directions.

US Route 395 was closed in both directions from Parr Boulevard to Red Rock Road on Saturday night because of the massive fire, according to the Reno Fire Department.

Nearly 50,000 people north of Reno were without power as of Saturday night.

The outages were concentrated in the Cold Springs, Stead and University Ridge areas. 

The emergency room at North Valleys also had to temporarily close as a result of the Hawk Fire, according to KOLO.

Patients were being immediately evacuated using a safe transport plan, according to the outlet.

The fire, which has not been contained at all so far, evoked stunning images across Reno on Saturday.

People driving out of town were met with seemingly interminable amounts of smoke as the horizon took on a red tint from the fiery conditions.

The Evelyn Mount Northeast Community Center was previously being used as an evacuation site, but agencies said it was now full. 

The emergency room at North Valleys had to temporarily close as a result of the Hawk Fire, according to KOLO.

Patients were being immediately evacuated using a safe transport plan, according to the outlet.

A red flag warning had been in effect in Reno on Saturday, which the National Weather Service deemed ‘critical fire weather.’

Wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour with humidity as low as 12 percent was expected across the area.

The NWS said those conditions offered ‘rapid fire growth potential’ as they urged people to not drag trailer chains, drive over dry grass or go target shooting.

Though the Hawk Fire started in Nevada, California was also feeling the brunt of the blaze.

Sierra Nevada was placed under an evacuation warning, meaning that residents should be prepared to leave their homes. 

About 14,800 customers in the Truckee area, in Sierra Nevada, were without power on Saturday because of the fire, according to SFGATE.

The Truckee Donner Public Utility District said this was because of an ’emergency de-energization of the transmission line that feeds our system’ due to how close it was to the Hawk Fire. An estimate for a return was not available. 

Mary Peltola, Alaska’s Democratic Senate hopeful and former state representative, has a history of absenteeism that may influence her campaign for the US Senate. Records reveal that Peltola, while serving in the Alaska House of Representatives, missed nearly 20% of votes and was absent from over a third of the Bethel City Council meetings during her tenure.

Between 1999 and 2009, Peltola missed 794 out of 4,265 state House votes, equating to 18.6%, as documented in legislative records. Additionally, during her time on the Bethel City Council from 2011 to 2013, she was absent for 22 out of 60 meetings, making up 36.67% of her absences, according to city records.

With these figures coming to light, Peltola’s dedication to her role is under scrutiny as she approaches Alaska’s impending general election, a pivotal contest that may sway the balance of power in the US Senate.

Nick Poche, a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, criticized Peltola in a statement to Fox News Digital, saying, “Alaskans deserve an all-the-time workhorse like Dan Sullivan, not someone like Peltola who knifes Alaskans in the back when she even bothers to show up.”

The records indicate that Peltola’s attendance issues peaked during the 23rd Legislature between 2003 and 2004, where she failed to participate in 334 out of 1,019 votes in the Alaska House. Furthermore, city records highlight her absence from nine of 22 council meetings in 2013 and 11 of 32 in 2012.

Peltola has also faced criticism from conservatives for missing votes while serving in the United States Congress from 2022-2024, when she missed 235 of 1,370 roll-call votes, or 17.2%, according to GovTrack data.

In addition to missed votes, Peltola’s critics have pointed to her time in Congress not resulting in any bills or resolutions for which she was the primary sponsor becoming law, compared to Sullivan who has had several bills signed into law.

“She couldn’t even get a single bill signed into law,” the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) posted on X in January. “Now, she wants a promotion.”

In a statement to Fox News Digital, a Peltola campaign spokesperson defended the absences, saying Peltola, a mother of seven, took maternity leave after giving birth to three of her children while serving in the state House. 

The spokesperson added that, excluding excused absences, Peltola missed only about 6% of votes and continued to advance bipartisan measures throughout her tenure.

“Three of Mary’s children were born during her time in the state legislature and she took maternity leave. That didn’t stop her from working hard for Alaskans, from passing bills to improve public safety in rural Alaska to increasing Alaska energy production,” the Peltola campaign said.

The campaign also said Peltola spent summers at a fishing camp and that some city council absences occurred during fishing months or because of other council priorities.

Turning to Sullivan’s attendance record, the spokesperson said he has missed a significant number of votes and committee hearings, calling his absences “an insult to Alaskans” and saying that Sullivan has been “slacking off” missing fisheries subcommittee hearings.

Peltola announced her Senate bid in January to represent Alaska and unseat Sullivan, a two-term senator backed by President Trump and also advanced to the general election in November. She finished ahead of Sullivan in Tuesday’s primary.

Alaska’s unique election system uses a nonpartisan top-four primary, in which candidates from all parties appear on the same ballot, followed by ranked-choice voting in the general election.