2 h. 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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49 h. ago Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing is found dead, officials say

Officials say a man who is suspected in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and in the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility

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58 h. ago Police investigate links between Brown shooting and killing of MIT professor

Sources say person of interest identified in attack at university and death of prominent physicist 50 miles awayAuthorities said Thursday that they’re looking into a connection between last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and one two days later near Boston that killed a professor at another elite school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.That is according to three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss an investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity. Two of the people said investigators had identified a person of interest in the shootings and were actively seeking that individual. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Brown University to release early decision notices as the search goes on for a shooting suspect

Brown University says it's issuing early-decision admission offers Wednesday evening, even as the search continues for a suspect in the weekend mass shooting on campus

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5 d. ago Video of new person of interest in Brown University shooting released

Police says individual is likely to be armed and dangerous after shooter killed two students on campus SaturdayBrown University shooting – latest updatesThe authorities released video footage on Monday afternoon of a fresh person of interest wanted in the mass shooting at Brown University at the weekend, as a huge manhunt continued.A short video clip taken from a surveillance camera shows, from across a street, a person in dark clothing walking briskly on the sidewalk. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago US Jewish groups urge heightened security at public events after Hanukkah attack in Australia

Leading Jewish groups in the United States are urging all Jewish organizations to ratchet up security at public events following the weekend's mass shooting attack on a Hanukkah celebration on a beach in Australia

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2 w. ago California shooting marks 17th US mass killing this year – a 20

Experts warn this likely points to ‘regression to mean’ after recent spike in mass killings rather than continued declineA shooting last weekend at a children’s birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing in the US this year – the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database that tracks them.The mass killings – defined as incidents in which four or more people are killed in a 24-hour period, not including the killer – are tracked in a database maintained by the Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. Continue reading...

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