DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s Republican governor bucked his party to call for expanded gun laws Tuesday and some Democrats in Texas told President Donald Trump to stay away as both states reeled from a pair of shootings that killed 31 people. A racist screed remained the focus of police investigating the massacre at a […]
My wife and I have this thing that we say to each other on a particularly tough day for our country. I might say to her, “Wow. What a tough day.” Then she’ll say, “A tough week.” Then I’ll say, “A tough month.” Then she’ll say “A tough year.” And we’ll go back and forth […]
Nearly 1,600 miles (2,575 kilometers) apart, the cities of El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have been united in grief and pain by a pair of shootings that left more 30 people dead. Dayton victim called father of her children after being shot in head: Lois Oglesby, who went by Lola, was among the […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson has learned after a tweet that pointing out truths is not always helpful. The astrophysicist and author apologized Monday for a Sunday tweet in which he noted more people died in less attention-getting ways in the same two-day period as a pair of mass shootings. In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama said Monday, in his first public statement since a pair of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, that Americans must “soundly reject language” from any leader who “feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments.” The statement , which did not mention President Donald Trump […]
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Police worked Monday to pin down why a 24-year-old gunman killed nine people, including his sister, in a weekend shooting rampage in a popular nightlife area in Dayton, Ohio. Connor Betts, who was wearing a mask and body armor when he opened fire in the bustling Oregon District early Sunday, was […]
UPDATE:5/5/19 7:29 p.m. 8chan has effectively been kicked offline, at least for the moment. UPDATE: BOSTON (AP) — The online message board 8chan was effectively knocked offline Monday after two companies cut off vital technical services following the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas , whose perpetrator was linked to the site. 8chan is known […]
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates sought to lay blame Sunday on President Donald Trump following a pair of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas, saying his language against minorities promotes racial division and violence. At public events and on television, several candidates pointed to a need for more gun restrictions, such as universal […]
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — As the nation reeled from two mass shootings in less than a day, President Donald Trump spent the first hours after the tragedies out of sight at his New Jersey golf course, sending out tweets of support awkwardly mixed in with those promoting a celebrity fight and attacking his political foes. […]
UPDATE: 08/05/2019 EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Latest on a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas (all times local): 10:45 a.m. Authorities say two more people have died from a weekend mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, raising the death toll in that attack to 22. El Paso police tweeted that the […]
The suspect in a deadly mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday was widely identified on the internet as a young white man whose social media activity showed support and sympathy for the president's apparent white nationalist agenda.
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A gunman in body armor opened fire early Sunday in a popular entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio, killing nine people, including his sister, and wounding dozens of others before he was quickly slain by police, city officials said. Connor Betts, 24, was killed by police less than a minute after he […]
