18 h. ago Man posing as Santa shoots girl in face then kills nine in Christmas massacre

Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, 45, dressed as Father Christmas before committing the massacre.

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19 h. ago Christmas Day LA shooting sees boy, 16, killed as four rushed to hospital

A shooting on Christmas Day has seen a 16-year-old killed after gunfire erupted in Antelope Valley, LA, as Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirmed four more were injured

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23 h. ago Man dressed as Santa shoots girl, 8, in face then kills nine in Christmas massacre

As Bruce Jeffrey Pardo unleashed a barrage of gunfire, relatives smashed through windows, hid behind furniture or ran upstairs. He then sprayed the room with accelerant, using a device made of two pressurised tanks, and within seconds, the house was ablaze

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54 h. ago Plastic surgeon arrested and accused of performing operation while intoxicated

A grand jury in the Houston metro area indicted Dr Azul Jaffer for placing his patient ‘at a substantial and unjustifiable risk of harm’

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60 h. ago Grand jury declines to indict man in shooting that killed teen at Kentucky State University

A grand jury has declined to indict a father of two Kentucky State University students who was charged with murder in an on-campus shooting that killed one student and critically injured another

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64 h. ago South African police continue arrests after mass shooting at a pub

Police in South Africa say they have arrested 11 people and are seeking a potential connection to Sunday’s shooting at a pub that killed 10 people

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4 d. ago BREAKING: Police officer injured in Bondi terror attack wakes from coma

Constable Scott Dyson was left injured in the shooting that killed fifteen people on Bondi Beach - and was placed in a medically induced coma, undergoing surgery almost daily

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4 d. ago Hundreds mourn Brown University sophomore Ella Cook, killed in campus shooting

Hundreds of Alabama funeralgoers mourned a Brown University sophomore killed in a recent campus attack

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4 d. ago South African police arrest suspect in mass shooting that killed 12, including 3 children

Police have arrested a 32-year-old suspect in connection with a mass shooting at an unlicensed pub in South Africa

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5 d. ago Cop who killed Tamir Rice fired again as he struggles to keep a job

Tamir’s killing sparked an outcry about police treatment of Black people and systemic racism, especially after a grand jury decided not to indict the officer or his partner

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5 d. ago Gunmen kill nine in Johannesburg township in South Africa’s second mass shooting this month

Attackers wound 10 others in Bekkersdal after opening fire at people in a bar and ‘randomly’ shooting in the street, police sayNine people have been killed after gunmen opened fire at a bar outside Johannesburg in the second mass shooting in South Africa this month.Ten more were wounded in the early morning attack at the tavern in the impoverished Bekkersdal township in a gold mining area about 25 miles (40km) south-west of the city. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Johannesburg bar shooting kills nine and victims targeted in street

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6 d. ago Gunmen kill nine in Johannesburg township in South Africa’s second mass shooting within weeks

Attackers wound 10 others in Bekkersdal after opening fire at tavern patrons and ‘randomly’ shooting in the street, police sayGunmen killed nine people and wounded 10 others in an attack at a township outside Johannesburg, police said on Sunday, in the second mass shooting in South Africa in December.Police initially said 10 people were killed but later revised the toll. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago South Dakota hotel owner found liable for discrimination against Native Americans

A federal jury found the owners of the Grand Gateway Hotel in South Dakota liable for discrimination against Native Americans in a decision on Friday

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6 d. ago MORE Epstein files are released as sickening details emerge from victims' testimony in pedophile's grand jury records

The Department of Justice has released two more batches of the Epstein files, including grand jury transcripts from cases against Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.

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6 d. ago MORE Epstein files are released as sickening details emerge from pedophile's grand jury records

The Department of Justice has released two more batches of the Epstein files, including grand jury transcripts from cases against Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.

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6 d. ago Brown University shooting suspect died two days before body discovered, autopsy shows

Suspect killed himself after allegedly killing an MIT professor and two Brown University studentsAn autopsy report on the suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor in Massachusetts has shown that he died from by suicide two days before he was found in a storage locker on Thursday.The New Hampshire attorney general’s report estimates that Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national who had been living in the US, died on 16 December, the same day that his fellow countryman, MIT nuclear physics professor Nuno Loureiro died at a hospital in Massachusetts. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Prime minister backs NSW premier’s call for a royal commission into the Bondi beach terror attack

Anthony Albanese said he would ‘support whatever action the NSW government takes’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has backed a royal commission into last weekend’s attack at Bondi beach, after the NSW premier called for a full “comprehensive look” at the terrorist incident.Speaking to reporters on Saturday the premier, Chris Minns said the state needed a royal commission to probe the mass shooting that killed 15 people. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Suspect in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing was once a physics student

Authorities have identified Claudio Neves Valente as the suspect in a mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor

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7 d. ago Trump says war with Venezuela is possible – US politics live

President says ‘I don’t rule it out’ when asked about the possibility of conflict during NBC interviewThe Trump administration announced on Thursday it will suspend a green card lottery that allowed a man believed to be behind both a mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor into the United States.Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, is accused of bursting into a building at the Ivy League school on Saturday and opening fire on students, killing two and wounding nine. Continue reading...

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