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California bar shooter debated his sanity online during massacre
The gunman who killed 12 people at a country music bar in Southern California went on social media during the attack and posted about his mental state and whether people would believe he was sane, a law enforcement official said Friday. Also, one of the ...
California bar where 12 are killed was haven for survivors of Las Vegas shootings
Borderline Bar and Grill in California had become a safe haven for dozens of survivors of last year's massacre at a Las Vegas country music festival, a place where they gathered for line dancing and drinks. They found themselves in a terrifyingly familiar scene Wednesday ...
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 ...
Suspect in U.S. synagogue mass shooting spewed online hate for Jews
The man arrested in the mass shooting Saturday at a Pennsylvania synagogue appears to have made virulently anti-Semitic posts on a social media platform popular with far-right extremists, including one made shortly before the attack. Police have identified the suspect as Robert Bowers, 46, of ...
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 ...
While Crimean authorities searched for clues that might help explain why a teenager gunned down 20 people at his vocational school before killing himself, the stunned city of Kerch prepared to say farewell to the victims. Thousands of residents were expected to attend the funerals ...
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 ...
