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Alex Jones’ Sandy Hook defamation trial set to begin in Texas

Jury selection began on Monday in a trial that will determine for the first time how much Infowars host Alex Jones must pay Sandy Hook Elementary School parents for falsely telling his audience that the deadliest classroom shooting in US history was ...

25 Jul 2022 at 18:23

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Senators reach agreement on bipartisan gun violence bill

Senate bargainers have reached agreement on a bipartisan gun violence bill. The move potentially tees up congressional passage this week on an incremental but notable package that would stand as Congress’s response to mass shootings in Texas and ...

22 Jun 2022 at 06:25

Senators say agreement on gun violence compromise is at hand

Senators in Washington DC have moved to the brink of an agreement on a bipartisan gun violence bill, the Democrats’ lead negotiator has said. The move potentially sets up votes this week on an incremental but notable package that would stand as ...

21 Jun 2022 at 23:04

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Thousands march on Washington DC to demand changes to US gun laws

Thousands of people have streamed to the US National Mall in Washington DC as part of country-wide demonstrations to demand greater gun control in America. The high-profile effort to change the laws follow recent mass shootings in Uvalde, ...

11 Jun 2022 at 19:38

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Maryland shooting suspect charged with murdering colleagues

A man has been charged with murdering three colleagues at a Maryland machine shop. The alleged gunman, Joe Louis Esquivel, 23, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, was treated in hospital following a shootout with police and is currently being ...

11 Jun 2022 at 14:28

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Gunman warned of Texas school attack on social media

The gunman who massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas warned on social media minutes before the attack that he had shot his grandmother and was going to target a school, the state’s governor said. ...

03 Jun 2022 at 17:28

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Children killed in Texas shooting were barricaded in classroom with killer

The 18-year-old gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas school barricaded himself inside a single classroom and “began shooting anyone that was in his way”, authorities said on Wednesday as they detailed the ...

25 May 2022 at 17:39

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Reinstated black politician Justin Pearson sworn in to Tennessee legislature

The second of two black Democrats expelled from the Republican-led Tennessee House followed his colleague back to work at the Capitol on Thursday, a week after their expulsion for participating in a gun control protest. ...

13 Apr 2023 at 15:52

Do not bow down to gun lobby on safety reforms, Keyham MP tells Sunak

The Prime Minister has been urged to “stand with grieving families” after the Plymouth mass shooting and not “bow down to lobbyists from the shooting industry”. Labour MP Luke Pollard, who has been a campaigner on ...

06 Sept 2023 at 14:35

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Trailblazing US Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein dies aged 90

US senator Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat who was elected to the senate in 1992 in the “Year of the Woman” and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics, ...

29 Sept 2023 at 14:12

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Biden demands gun control after 19 children killed in US school shooting

US President Joe Biden has called for new restrictions on firearms in America after a gunman massacred at least 19 children at a Texas elementary school. In an emotional address to his nation from the White ...

25 May 2022 at 14:51

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Thousands take to US streets demanding action on gun laws

Thousands of people have rallied in Washington DC and across the United States in a renewed push for gun control measures. The high-profile effort to change the laws follows recent mass shootings in Uvalde,...

12 Jun 2022 at 11:08

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