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WORLD & NATION UPDATE: AT HOME.
A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival in Southern California yesterday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festivalgoers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said. Gunfire rang out at the St. John Baptist de la Salle Roman Catholic parish in the San Fernando Valley shortly before 11 a.m., police said.



A Democratic congressman yesterday urged Republicans to ’step up to the plate’ to help veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., pointed to the updated GI Bill, which the House passed Thursday, as one way ‘a grateful nation can repay its heroes.’ The new GI Bill essentially would guarantee a full scholarship at any in-state public university for anyone who serves in the military for at least three years.