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The leader of an armed group stopping undocumented migrants who cross into the United States from Mexico had boasted that his members had trained to assassinate former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, an FBI agent said in court papers ...
Two decades since Columbine massacre, mass shootings have become a feature of American life
It has been 20 years since two heavily armed young men in dark trench coats entered a Colorado high school and launched a bloody attack that seared the word "Columbine" into the American psyche, forever transforming the debate on gun rights and school violence. At ...
U.S. arrests armed member of right-wing militia accused of detaining migrants
The FBI has arrested a member of an armed right-wing militia group accused of illegally detaining migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said Saturday. Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 70, was arrested for illegal possession of a weapon. His small but well-armed United Constitutional Patriots (UCP) group ...
A weeklong series of events commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre was to culminate Saturday with a remembrance ceremony celebrating the lives of the 13 victims slain in the rampage. On April 20, 1999, two Columbine students, just three weeks shy ...
India halts cross-border trade in Kashmir in new crackdown on arms and drugs
India suspended cross-border trade with Pakistan-controlled Kashmir because it was being used to funnel weapons and drugs, the government said on Thursday, in a further crackdown in the volatile territory. Trade across the "Line of Control" (LoC), or the heavily militarized de facto border that ...
Rapper Kodak Black busted at border in upstate New York with drugs, gun
Kodak Black was arrested on drug and weapons charges as the rapper tried to cross from Canada into the United States near Niagara Falls, law enforcement officials said Thursday. Bill Kapri, whose stage name is Kodak Black, was driving two other people in a Cadillac ...
Colorado schools reopen as FBI examines suicide teen suspect's past
The suicide of a Florida teenager who authorities say was obsessed with the Columbine shooting and may have planned to carry out her own attack will not end an investigation to determine if she had any accomplices, officials said as Denver schools reopened Thursday ...
Teen 'infatuated' with Columbine apparently kills herself amid Colorado manhunt
A young Florida woman who traveled to Colorado and bought a shotgun for what authorities feared would be a Columbine-inspired attack just days ahead of the 20th anniversary was found dead Wednesday in an apparent suicide after a nearly 24-hour manhunt. Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff ...
FBI hunts for woman, 18, who threatened Columbine High ahead of mass shooting's 20th anniversary
Authorities said Tuesday they are looking for an 18-year-old woman suspected of making threats against Columbine High School, just days before the 20th anniversary of a mass shooting that killed 13 people. The information prompted a lockdown at the high school and several others outside ...
Canada man charged with four murders over 'targeted' shootings
A retired city engineer was charged Tuesday with the murders of four people in what police have called a 'targeted' shooting spree in the western Canadian city of Penticton. John Brittain, 68, is facing three counts of premeditated murder and one of second-degree murder after ...
Minnesota cop's murder trial raises questions about 'blue wall of silence'
Testimony in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an unarmed woman after she called 911 to report a possible sexual assault near her home has shined a light on officers' actions at the scene and raised questions about ...
Two decades on, survivors of Columbine High School massacre raise children in world shaped by attack
Dropping her kids off at school used to be the hardest part of Kacey Ruegsegger Johnson's day. She would cry most mornings as they left the car, and relied on texted photos from their teachers to make it through the day. Now, the mother of ...
