An agreement between the Army and one of the nation’s largest ammunition manufacturers is receiving new scrutiny because of a little-known provision allowing a government facility to produce hundreds of millions of rounds for the retail market. Over more than a decade, contracts between the Pentagon and a series of private companies have permitted an […]
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A conservative political commentator published three photographs on Monday that appeared to show excerpts from writings by the shooter who killed six people at a Nashville Christian school, enraging parents of the surviving students and prompting an investigation into the leak. For months there has been a court battle over whether any of the assailant’s […]
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The second reason is that machine guns are strictly regulated in the United States. They are not illegal to own outright, though many people think they are. The National Firearms Act of 1934, or NFA, established a series of restrictions and taxes on the purchase and ownership of certain firearms that Congress associated with crime. […]
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The gunman who fled after killing 18 people and injuring 13 others at a bar and a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, last month was most likely alive during much of the sprawling two-day manhunt that had forced thousands of residents throughout the region to remain in their homes. The assailant, Robert R. Card II, […]
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Since taking office, President Biden has traveled a grim path through American communities desperately grieving in the wake of mass shootings: Uvalde, Texas; Monterey Park, Calif.; Buffalo; Atlanta. On Friday, he added another to the list: Lewiston, Maine. Mr. Biden huddled privately with the families of those killed or injured during last month’s rampage that […]
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Read More Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs contributed reporting. Fact-checking by Summer Thomad and Susan Lee. Special thanks to Chelsia Rose Marcius, Amelia Nierenberg and Shaila Dewan. The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, […]
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Robert Card displayed a textbook set of warning signs: He was hearing voices. He told people that he was planning violence. And his behavior had markedly changed in the months leading up to the mass shooting he carried out last week. His family, his superiors in the military and the local police knew all of […]
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President Biden will travel to Maine on Friday to pay his respects to the 18 people killed and more than dozen wounded during a gunman’s rampage through a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, last week, the White House announced. Shortly after the massacre, Mr. Biden declared his frustration at the taking of yet […]
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A few things you can bet on when there’s been a terrible mass shooting in this country. One is that the heartbreaking stories about victims and chilling ones about the craziness of the shooter will not necessarily be followed by a strong bipartisan drive for significantly better gun laws. POP QUIZ After an assault-rifle-brandishing madman […]
Read MoreOn Sunday, Arthur Barnard will bury his oldest child, Artie Strout, 42, who was one of the 18 people killed in the country’s deadliest mass shooting so far this year. Mr. Barnard, 62, is devastated. But he is also furious. Why do five of his grandchildren no longer have a father? Why was the gunman […]
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Six weeks before an Army reservist fatally shot 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, the police received alarming warnings that the reservist had grown increasingly paranoid, had punched a friend and had said he was going to carry out a shooting spree. But no law enforcement officials ever made contact with him, according to records released […]
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They were stalwarts in the Deaf community, a high school student who wanted to grow up to be like his dad, childhood friends bowling with their families, a husband and wife, an expecting father. Eighteen people were killed in the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, and 13 others were injured on Wednesday, Oct 25. Several […]
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On a sparkling October morning, with peak fall foliage blazing red and yellow, the residents of Lewiston emerged from two long days of lockdown on Saturday into a city forever changed. Stores reopened. Sidewalks came to life. And the families of 18 people killed by a mass shooter here on Wednesday night tried to move […]
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In the year since a teenage gunman strode into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde and killed 19 fourth graders and two teachers, the building has stood empty, its windows boarded over, its students dispersed to other campuses with little chance to maintain the bonds they once shared. That was poised to change on Saturday, as […]
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The mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, coupled with a conservative Democratic congressman’s reversal on an assault weapons ban, has turned the spotlight on the state’s two senators, Susan Collins, a moderate Republican, and Angus King, a Democrat-leaning independent, both of whom are skeptical about banning military-style rifles. Representative Jared Golden, among the most conservative Democrats […]
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There is no solution to the gun problem, and little more to write, because Americans are addicted to firearms. Representative Jared Golden, from Maine’s Second Congressional District, has reversed course and says he will now support outlawing military-style semiautomatic rifles like the one used in the killing of 18 people in Lewiston this week. But […]
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Follow the latest updates on the search for the suspect in the Maine shootings. A manhunt by air, ground and sea continued on Friday for the gunman suspected of killing 18 people and injuring 13 more Wednesday night in a crowded bowling alley and at a bar in Lewiston, a city in Maine of about […]
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The familiar rituals of a Wednesday night were playing out at Just-In-Time Recreation, a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, with 22 lanes of tenpin and a restaurant serving nachos and wings. Parents and children were there for a children’s bowling league. Regulars were midway through their weekly games, unwinding after work. Then a man wearing […]
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Offering possible objections based on what he described as “constitutional infirmity,” Johnson claimed there were grounds to reject the election results from states that permitted pandemic-induced state modifications to mail-in ballots and early voting systems that bypassed the approval of state legislatures. Ultimately, it was Johnson’s work that allowed Republicans to seize on the events […]
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Offering possible objections based on what he described as “constitutional infirmity,” Johnson claimed there were grounds to reject the election results from states that permitted pandemic-induced state modifications to mail-in ballots and early voting systems that bypassed the approval of state legislatures. Ultimately, it was Johnson’s work that allowed Republicans to seize on the events […]
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Around 7 p.m. A shooting at a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday evening led to “multiple casualties,” according to the authorities. That was followed by reports of a shooting at Schemengees Bar &the Grille, a 12-minute drive away. Around 8 p.m. The authorities released photos of an armed suspect and urged people to […]
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On a recent Saturday morning, a day after what would have been Lexi Rubio’s 12th birthday, dozens gathered in the Texas city of Uvalde for a run in her honor. Blasting Lexi’s playlist, Kimberly Mata-Rubio, her mother, took off from under a towering mural of Lexi, one of 19 children and two teachers killed in […]
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They were not alive at the time of the Yom Kippur War, a half-century ago, another debacle at a moment of Israeli inattention, even if the war was ultimately won. The most ready comparison they make is to Sept. 11, 2001, a shattering moment when the United States experienced the slaughter of civilians, the evaporation […]
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NewsOne Featured Video People walk past a Dollar General store where three Black people were shot and killed in a racist mass shooting the day before on August 27, 2023, in Jacksonville, Florida. | Source: Sean Rayford / Getty In recent years, the United States has seen a surge of white supremacist mass shootings against […]
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Details are still emerging from many communities for miles around the Gaza Strip, and the authorities are still tallying the toll. But videos, photos and survivors have portrayed many attacks across the region. One 30-minute video that was posted on Facebook and whose location was verified by The Times shows Palestinian gunmen crossing the border […]
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“Welcome,” said the sign at the entrance to Kfar Azza, a lush Israeli village just across some fields from the border with Gaza. On the pathway, another sign pointed the way to the gym and the swimming pool. Then I saw the legs of a bloated corpse dressed in fatigues poking out from under a […]
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The thousands of young Israelis had spent the night dancing at an outdoor rave, many clad in tie-dye T-shirts and crop tops. They ended the night in a massacre. Just after dawn on Saturday, hundreds of Palestinian militants bulldozed their way through the barricades between Gaza and Israel, drove into scores of Israeli towns along […]
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Israelis to brace themselves for a long and difficult war on Sunday, a day after Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, launched its largest surprise attacks in decades. Israel responded with huge strikes on cities in the blockaded Gaza Strip, destroying dozens of buildings, as Hamas […]
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Multiple people were shot on the Morgan State University campus in Baltimore on Tuesday night, prompting a shelter-in-place order. The Baltimore Police Department later said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the incident was no longer considered an active shooter situation while continuing to ask people to shelter in place. A […]
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A 14-year-old with a gun opened fire in a luxury shopping mall in downtown Bangkok on Tuesday, the authorities said, killing three people and injuring four in one of Thailand’s most popular tourist destinations. The shooting started around 4:20 p.m. in the Siam Paragon mall, according to Bangkok police. The suspect was arrested within the […]
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