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Coyote and Badger Seen Traveling Together Under California Highway
Go ahead and add this to your list of favorite animal videos. An apparently playful coyote and their supposed badger buddy were captured on camera traveling together under a highway in the Bay Area. The adorable video made its way to Twitter Monday evening, quickly garnering hundreds of thousands of likes as well as prompting the creation of hashtags such…
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3 Dead, Suspect Killed in Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting
Three people were killed, including a 6-year-old boy, and 12 others were wounded Sunday after a gunman cut through a fence to avoid security and opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. A suspect was shot and killed by police.
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In Gun Buyback Talk, How Do You Round Up So Many Weapons?
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s recent vow to take away people’s AR-15 and AK-47 rifles raised one big question: How is it possible to round up the millions of such guns that exist in the United States? The number of AR-15 and AK-47s in the U.S. is estimated at a staggering 16 million, creating logistical challenges to take them out...
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In Gun Buyback Talk, How Do You Round Up So Many Weapons?
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s recent vow to take away people’s AR-15 and AK-47 rifles raised one big question: How is it possible to round up the millions of such guns that exist in the United States? The number of AR-15 and AK-47s in the U.S. is estimated at a staggering 16 million, creating logistical challenges to take them out...
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Security Increased for the Big E
It’s the opening weekend of the annual Eastern States Exposition and officials have new security measures in place at New England’s largest agricultural fair. Visitors will have to pass through metal detectors, 25 of which have been placed at the entrances to the Big E. Security towers also have been erected around the fair to give law enforcement a...
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National Rifle Association Sues San Francisco Over Terrorist Declaration
The National Rifle Association has sued San Francisco where city officials recently declared the gun-rights lobby a terrorist organization. The NRA says in its lawsuit that the city is infringing on its free speech rights and is seeking to blacklist anyone associated with it.
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Gun Owners Look Beyond the NRA for Representation
Bob Mokos is a passionate gun owner who on the surface would seem like a card-carrying National Rifle Association member. The retired airline pilot has been shooting guns since he was a child. The Vietnam veteran got more serious about firearms as a civilian after one of his sisters was fatally shot during a mugging in Chicago. After the 9/11...
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Latino Actors, Writers Pen ‘Letter of Solidarity' in New York Times Amid Fears
Actresses America Ferrera and Eva Longoria are leading a group of more than 150 writers, artists and leaders who have written a public “letter of solidarity” to U.S. Latinos after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, and an immigration raid in Mississippi. The letter, published Friday in The New York Times and in a handful of Spanish-language newspapers, says...
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Congress Weighs Gun Control Measures After Latest Mass Shootings
Amid renewed calls for urgent action on gun control, members of Congress are weighing potentially bipartisan ideas to curb gun violence after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, Dayton, Ohio, and Gilroy, California, over the last two weeks have left nearly three dozen people dead. The legislative proposals under consideration include stronger background checks, “red flag” laws that prevent those...
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Records: Gilroy Festival Gunman Had Passport, Clown Mask, Survival Guide in Car
The gunman in the deadly California food festival shooting had a passport, clown mask, wilderness survival guide and bottle rockets in his car at the time of the attack, court documents released Thursday show.
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After Mass Shootings, Collins Hears New Tone in Gun Debate Among Senate GOP
Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine says the gun control debate following the weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, feels different, even among Republican senators. That comment comes from a veteran senator who has tried to spearhead bipartisan gun reform efforts before, many of which failed.
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El Paso Shooting: 22 Dead, More than 20 Wounded in Walmart Attack
The gunman arrested in the El Paso shooting that left 22 people dead was charged with capital murder on Sunday, and authorities are treating the attack as a domestic terrorism case. El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza told reporters that the state of Texas also plans to seek the death penalty, adding, “We will hold him accountable.” “We have...
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El Paso District Attorney Plans to Charge Suspected Shooter with Capital Crimes
El Paso District Attorney Jaime Esparza discusses his plans to charge the suspected El Paso Walmart shooter with capital murder. If convicted, the suspect would face the death penalty.
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Festival Gunman Identified; Had Referred to Neo-Nazi Manifesto Before Shooting
The gunman in the Gilroy Garlic Festival mass shooting has been identified as Santino William Legan, a federal law enforcement official confirmed to NBC News. Legan had posted online about an 1890 racist manifesto, “Might is Right or The Survival of the Fittest.”
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Gilroy Garlic Festival Turns Deadly After Gunman Opens Fire
Three people were killed, including a 6-year-old boy, and 12 others were wounded Sunday after a gunman cut through a fence to avoid security and opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
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Trump, Local Politicians React to Shooting at Garlic Festival in Gilroy, Calif.
A shooting at an annual garlic festival in Gilroy, California has sparked reactions from President Donald Trump, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other politicians. “Law Enforcement is at the scene of the shootings in Gilroy, California,” Trump tweeted late Sunday. “Reports that shooter has not yet been apprehended. Be careful and safe!” As of Sunday night, three people were dead,...
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Immigrants Fleeing Gangs Prefer Taking Chance for US Asylum
The MS-13 gang made Jose Osmin Aparicio’s life so miserable in his native El Salvador that he had no choice but to flee in the dead of night with his wife and four children, leaving behind all their belongings and paying a smuggler $8,000. Aparicio is undeterred by a new directive from Attorney General Jeff Sessions declaring that gang and...