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Gunman kills five people, wounds five police at Illinois business
A gunman opened fire at a manufacturing plant in suburban Chicago on Friday, killing five people and wounding five police officers before he was fatally shot, police said. Aurora, Illinois, Police Chief Kristen Ziman told a news conference that the gunman was 45-year-old Gary Martin ...
Suspect, 21, confesses to killing parents and three others using dad's gun but motive eludes
The 21-year-old man accused of killing five people including his parents in a multiparish shooting over the weekend before fleeing to his grandmother's house has confessed, authorities said Tuesday. Dakota Theriot told authorities he used a gun he stole from his father, Livingston Parish Sheriff ...
Florida governor suspends sheriff who 'failed' in Parkland school shooting
Florida's governor on Friday suspended the sheriff who oversaw the response to last year's Parkland school shooting over failings in his handling of the massacre. Gov. Ron DeSantis said Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel had "repeatedly failed" and "demonstrated a pattern of poor leadership" following ...
U.S. Democrats introduce bill to beef up background checks for gun buyers
U.S. Democrats unveiled landmark gun safety legislation Tuesday five days after regaining the House majority, seeking swift action on a measure to expand background checks on firearm sales. A similar bill was introduced last year by Democrats, but Republican leaders declined to bring it to ...
Chinese state-run media has pointed to the mass shooting Saturday at a synagogue in Pittsburgh as highlighting the need for "anti-extremism education" measures similar to the widely criticized internment camps it operates in the country's far-west Xinjiang region. Reacting to the deadly shooting, the Global ...
During the week, anyone who wanted to get inside Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue had to ring the doorbell and be granted entry by staff because the front door was kept locked. Not so on Saturday — the Jewish Sabbath — when the building ...
Gunman yelled 'all Jews must die' before shooting 11 dead at Pittsburgh synagogue
A gunman yelling, "All Jews must die," stormed a Pittsburgh synagogue during Saturday services, killing 11 worshippers before he was arrested over one of the deadliest attacks on Jews in U.S. history. The 20-minute attack at Tree of Life Congregation in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood ...
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh seen as likely to expand gun rights
Although U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says he recognizes that gun violence "has plagued all of us," he believes the Constitution limits how far the government can go to restrict gun use to prevent crime. As a federal appeals court judge, Kavanaugh made it ...
Staff, teachers take up firearms training amid spate of U.S. school shootings
When Donald Trump proposed arming teachers to deter school shooters, the overwhelming response from educators was horror. Yet teachers in Colorado are taking action to carry concealed guns to school. The nonprofit group FASTER, set up after 20 small children were killed in 2012 at ...
While journalists around the world face violent threats for their work, attacks against media offices like Thursday's deadly shooting inside a U.S. newsroom are relatively rare. In the latest bloodshed, at least five people are known to have died after a gunman opened fire at ...
At least five dead in Annapolis newsroom shooting; gunman in custody
In what appeared to be one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in U.S. history, a man armed with smoke grenades and a shotgun attacked journalists at a newspaper in Maryland's capital Thursday, killing five people before police quickly stormed the building and arrested ...
Six bodies found on shore near Rio's Sugarloaf Mountain after firefight between police and drug gang
Six bodies were found Sunday on the seashore near Rio de Janeiro's iconic Sugarloaf Mountain and cable-car ride, the fire department said. "They were stuck in the rocks, on the shore," a spokesman said. Police were investigating the grisly discovery and did not say how the ...
