Mass shooting
Buffalo shooting suspect charged with federal hate crimes as chilling details emerge
Payton Gendron, the gunman at the centre of the Buffalo massacre in May, has been charged with 26 hate crimes that make him eligible for the death penalty.
- by Farrah Tomazin
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Gun reform deal reached by US senators with key Republican backing
The announcement marks the furthest that talks on a gun measure have advanced in Congress since 2013, following the Sandy Hook school massacre.
- by Richard Cowan
Young men, mass shootings and the prefrontal cortex
Researchers into mass shootings have found that attacks are overwhelmingly carried out by men whose ages are strikingly clustered around two key periods in their lives.
- by Ariana Eunjung Cha, Meghan Hoyer and Tim Meko
Opinion
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My three-year-old masters mass-shooter drills while US leaders fail to act
American children are being asked to summon unbelievable courage every day while their representatives do nothing on gun control.
- by Amelia Lester
Oklahoma gunman who killed four targeted surgeon who treated him
The suspect wanted to kill the doctor who he blamed for back pain he felt after surgery, US authorities have revealed.
- by Michael Noble Jr.
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Man opens fire in Tulsa, Oklahoma hospital, multiple deaths
The shooting comes on the same day victims of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas were being buried.
Mourners say goodbye to Uvalde teacher Irma Garcia and her husband Joe
Irma died in the shooting at the school, and her husband, Joe died two days later from a heart attack. The couple would have been married 25 years on June 28.
- by Jay Reeves and Adriana Gomez Licon
Biden says Ardern’s leadership ‘critical’ as US tackles mass shootings
US President Joe Biden and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern discussed gun violence, climate change, and the rise of China at the White House.
- by Farrah Tomazin
She’d taken one child home and left one at school when a gunman opened fire
Marisela Roque was in a Walmart at the edge of Uvalde when her phone began buzzing. It was her sister, Araseli Ruiz, with disturbing news.
- by Peter Jamison
Texas Republican Ted Cruz confronted at restaurant over gun control after Uvalde shooting
The prominent opponent of gun control laws earlier accused Democrats of seeking to use the school massacre as a pretext to “disarm Americans” at an NRA meeting.
- by Timothy Bella and Adela Suliman
After horror, failure of Uvalde massacre, business as usual at NRA meeting in Houston
Former president Donald Trump appeared, the star attraction of the NRA convention, called for teachers to be armed in the wake of Tuesday’s shooting.
- by Farrah Tomazin