Pulse Nightclub Shooting Survivors Can’t Sue Security Company
The security company that employed and trained the Pulse nightclub shooter cannot be held liable for his actions, a Florida appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
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A trial court properly refused to dismiss defamation claims against Infowars owner Alex Jones and one of its reporters brought by the father of a victim of the Sandy Hook shooting, an appeals court in Texas ruled. The claims relate to Infowars broadcasts that challenged the father’s accounts of holding his deceased son in his arms.
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German Police Raid Neo-Nazi Group Nationwide
German police on Thursday raided sites across the country linked to a far-right group banned by the interior ministry, weeks after an extremist gunman shot dead nine people of immigrant backgrounds.
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Colorado Justices Hear Debate on Liability in Planned Parenthood Clinic Shooting
Should a Colorado health clinic have beefed up security in anticipation of an attack at a facility that provides abortions? Seven Colorado Supreme Court justices will decide whether a jury should hear the case.
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A Colorado district attorney said Thursday his office will not seek the death penalty against one of the two suspects in a deadly shooting at a STEM school in 2019.
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Airbnb Sued Over Deadly Halloween Shooting at Rental House
The family of a man shot dead during a Halloween party at a Bay Area rental house sued Airbnb Monday claiming the vacation rental company should have known that large crowds, underage drinking and illegal activities frequently occurred there.
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Justices Won’t Hear Challenge to Bump Stock Ban
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a closely watched challenge to the Trump administration’s move to ban bump stock devices in the wake of the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
Read moreGunman, Victims Named in Milwaukee Mass Shooting
Police on Thursday identified the names of the six people killed in a mass shooting at a Milwaukee brewery Wednesday afternoon, including five victims and the shooter who died by suicide.
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Multiple People Dead in Milwaukee Shooting at Molson Coors
Multiple people were killed Wednesday in a shooting on the Molson Coors Brewing Co. campus, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said.
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Far-Right Attack in Germany Leaves 11 Dead
A far-right extremist killed nine people at or near two hookah bars in the German city of Hanau Wednesday night, and killed himself and his mother, German officials said.
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A Florida appeals court ruled against a defendant seeking to dismiss a charge of sending a written threat to kill or injure a child. The defendant sent a Snapchat photo to his North Marion High School classmate depicting a scoped AR-15 rifle with the caption, “Show and Tell @NM on Monday.” The picture was sent two weeks after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
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Judge Gives Sandy Hook Families Access to Gunman’s Computer
The families of those killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting can access the shooter’s computer, part of a deal that won court approval Thursday in their suit against gunmaker Remington.
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Teacher Unions Say Active Shooter Drills Terrify Children
The nation’s two largest teacher unions want schools to revise or eliminate active shooter drills, saying Tuesday that they can harm students’ mental health and that there are better ways to prepare for the possibility of a school shooting.
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Thai Soldier Kills 29 in Shooting Rampage
Authorities in northern Thailand began releasing bodies to relatives Monday after security forces cornered and killed a soldier who carried out the country’s worst mass shooting in an hours-long siege at a shopping mall.
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A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to a raft of charges – including first-degree murder – in the deadly shooting at a Colorado STEM school in 2019 and faces life with the possibility of parole plus 407 ½ years when sentenced in May.
Read moreUS Says It Killed al-Qaida Leader in Yemen
The United States said Thursday that a counterterrorism operation in Yemen killed Qassim al-Rimi, an al-Qaida leader who claimed responsibility for last year’s deadly shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola, where a Saudi aviation trainee killed three American sailors.
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El Paso Shooting Suspect Faces Federal Hate Crime Charges
Prosecutors on Thursday filed federal hate crime charges against the 21-year-old Texas man accused of carrying out a deadly mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart last year that authorities say was an act of domestic terrorism motivated by racist beliefs.
Read moreMan Who Aided San Bernardino Terror Attack Wants to Withdraw Guilty Plea
A convicted man who pleaded guilty to providing the rifles used in the deadly 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack now wants to withdraw his plea, according to his lawyer’s statement in federal court on Thursday.
Read more1 Dead, 7 Wounded in Downtown Seattle Shooting
Multiple people opened fire outside a McDonald’s in the busiest part of downtown Seattle during the evening commute Wednesday, killing one person and wounding seven others, police said.
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