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  • The suspect wanted

  • for killing two people and injuring nine others at Brown University in Rhode Island,

  • has been found dead in Salem, Mass, New Hampshire.

  • He's been identified as 48-year-old Claudio Nieves-Valente,

  • a naturalized citizen from Portugal and former Brown student.

  • U.S.

  • Attorney Lea Foley explains how Valente likely avoided being captured.

  • He was using a phone that was obfuscating ability to track it,

  • and he was using financial, like not credit cards that were tied to his name.

  • And so he was sophisticated in hiding his tracks.

  • Foley says Valente is also suspected in the murder of an MIT professor in Massachusetts on Monday,

  • then traveling to New Hampshire, where he apparently took his own life.

  • President Trump has signed an executive order to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug As NPR's Franco-Ordonez reports,

  • the order effectively eases federal restrictions on cannabis use without decriminalizing it.