Heart wrenching scenes were witnessed at a Newton church as two more victims of the Sandy Elementary Hook School massacre -- James Mattioli and Jessica Rekos -- both six-year olds, were laid to rest. George Joseph reports
Two days after the horrific shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut killed 20 children and six adults, United States authorities on Sunday identified the younger victims as first graders, who were shot multiple times by a long rifle. Autopsies were conducted on the 26 victims, including 12 young girls and eight boys.
Over 100 people have died and about two dozen injured in the campus shootings across the United States over the last 20 years with the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007 being the deadliest claiming 33 lives including that of two Indians, a study says.
Several people, including children, were killed after an unidentified person opened fire in an elementary school in Connecticut today with the shooter now believed to be dead.
Shocked at the horrific shooting at a US elementary school that left 20 small children and six teachers dead, world leaders on Saturday said it was a "senseless and incomprehensible act of evil", as President Barack Obama sought "meaningful action" to prevent such tragedies in future
At least 20 children were among 28 people killed when a young man opened fire inside a United States school on Thursday, in yet another tragic shooting that ended with the death of the gunman and left the country shocked and horrified.
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy has described the shooting at an elementary school a "tragedy of unspeakable terms" that left 20 children and six adults dead in one of the most horrific incidents in US history.
Newtown resident Bindu Balasubramanian described the state of shock at the school massacre.
People mourned the deaths of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, while anti-gun protestors in Washington, DC demand gun safety legislation, following the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde.
Thousands of children's shoes have been kept on display outside the US Capitol as a temporary memorial to children killed by gun violence.
As investigators go deeper into the ideological background of Omar Mateen, the perpetrator of the worst mass shooting in modern US history when he killed 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, it's the gunman's choice of weapon that has set the alarm bells ringing.
The shooting began at a home in the rural community of Rancho Tehama, about 195 kilometre from Sacramento, on Tuesday morning.
After each massacre, survivors and witnesses have echoed the words "no more" - yet mass shootings have continued to plague the United States. In fact, shootings only have continued to increase over the past few years. The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida is the 18th attack in a school in 2018 alone. Below are some of the worst US school shootings in the last 20 years.
Bana Alabed's tweets from war-torn Syria made a world numbed by the violence care again.
Nearly a thousand people from different faiths gathered today to pay homage to the six Sikh worshippers gunned down inside a Gurdwara by a white supremacist here last year, as a sea of candles and emotional tributes marked the tragic incident's anniversary.
Police confirm that people have died in the shooting at a Southern California social services center.
In one of the worst school shootings in American history, an 18-year-old gunman has killed 21 people, including 19 children, and two adults at an elementary school in Texas state, with an emotional President Joe Biden urging lawmakers to 'turn this pain into action' to control the powerful gun lobby.
The presidential dreams that the veteran leader from Delaware had harboured since childhood seemed all but over for a third time until he won South Carolina's Democratic Party primary on February 29 last year, forcing most rivals out of the race and making one of the most dramatic comebacks in American political history.
62 mass murders carried out with firearms across 30 US states. Of these, 12 were in schools, 19 at workplaces, the other 31 cases took place in shopping malls, restaurants, government buildings and military bases. The average age of the killers was 35, with the youngest only 11 years old. B S Raghavan on how the killings will continue until America confronts the urgent need for gun control.
At least 50 people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas - the deadliest mass shooting in the history of United States. Here's a look at other such incidents that have struck the country in recent times.
Third time lucky is an apt phrase to describe the remarkable rise of Joe Biden, a veteran in US politics for around five decades, from being one of the youngest senators in history to the oldest American president-to-be.
The gunman opened fire at Umpqua Community College in rural Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland -- the capital of Oregon -- and then went on to other classrooms gunning down his victims, witnesses said.
The mass shooting, which is said to be 18th school shooting of the year, seems to have rekindled a debate on the controversial gun control legislation in the US.
'It is impossible to get any of the top five movie stars in Bollywood for an honest one-on-one interview, which spans beyond seven minutes unless your media house has a marketing tie-up with the movie they are part of. Even then, they will rarely ever want to go outside their comfort zone and open up.'
From her thoughts on a black woman becoming First Lady to marital struggles with her husband Barack, Michelle Obama hasn't held back in her memoir, which is being praised as honest and telling, Becoming.
More than a year after he was nominated by President Barack Obama, the US Senate, defying the powerful pro-gun lobby National Rifle Association, voted to confirm Dr Vivek Hellegere Murthy as the first Indian American US Surgeon General and the youngest ever at age 37, in a cliff-hanger of a 51-43 vote.
'If fame, money and comfort are the only factors that drive us, then we are playing cricket for entirely the wrong reasons.'
Read the full transcript of President Obama's State of the Union address on Wednesday at the US Capitol in Washington.
