Houston, Aug 12: A shooting at a Target store in Austin, the capital city of the US state of Texas, left three people dead, authorities said.

Austin police said in a social media post that the suspect had been detained.

The shooting happened just on Monday around 2 p.m. local time (1900 GMT), said the police.

Officials received a call about shots fired at the target location on Research Boulevard at 2:15 p.m.

When Austin police arrived, three people had sustained gunshot wounds, officials said during a press conference after the shooting.

The suspect, a 32-year-old male, stole a car from the parking lot of Target and fled the scene, according to police reports.

Tragically, the individual from whom the car was stolen is among those who were killed.

After leaving the Target area, the suspect crashed the stolen vehicle and then stole another car from a nearby dealership, police stated.

Austin Police located the suspect in the southern part of the city after he exited the car, and another person subsequently called the police. Further investigations are underway.

Earlier, a shooting on Emory University’s Atlanta campus in the US state of Georgia left the shooter dead and one officer injured, according to media reports.

There was a single shooter who is now dead, with no further threat to the campus or surrounding area, said NBC News, quoting the Atlanta Police Department.

A law enforcement officer was injured while confronting the shooter, according to reports.

A shelter-in-place order was put into place and now has been lifted, said the latest post by the university.

New Delhi, Aug 12: The United States and China have agreed to extend their trade truce until 10 November, just hours before a fresh round of tariff increases was set to take effect, reports BBC and international media.

Both sides announced that higher duties on each other’s goods, imposed earlier this year, will remain suspended for another 90 days. The extension is intended to allow more time for negotiations on trade imbalances, market access, and national security concerns. Talks will also address US restrictions on high-tech exports to China and Beijing’s access to critical minerals.

Trade tensions between the two countries escalated sharply in April after Washington introduced sweeping new tariffs, prompting Beijing to retaliate. While some measures were rolled back in May, significant duties remain in place, currently 30% on Chinese goods entering the US and 10% on US goods entering China.

Recent discussions have touched on issues including Chinese purchases of US agricultural products, access to rare earths, and the potential separation of TikTok from its Chinese owner ByteDance.

The US has also eased some export curbs on advanced chips, allowing companies like AMD and Nvidia to resume limited sales to Chinese firms under revenue-sharing conditions.

BBC reported that despite the truce, trade flows remain depressed. US imports of Chinese goods in June were down nearly 50% from a year earlier, with total imports in the first half of 2025 falling 15% year-on-year. American exports to China dropped about 20% over the same period.

Srinagar, Aug 12: The official account for Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot on X, has been suspended, sparking a wave of amusement — and some pointed commentary — across the crypto community.

By press time, Grok’s page remained inaccessible, showing the standard “account suspended” notice for violating X’s rules. No official reason for the suspension had been provided, and neither X nor Musk had commented publicly on the matter.