Tag: mass
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Two people killed including child and 22 wounded in weekend US mass shootings | Chicago
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Separate shootings in Chicago and New Orleans killed two people – including an eight-year-old girl – while wounding at least 22 others over the weekend in some of the US’s latest instances of mass gun violence. In Chicago, an eight-year old girl was fatally shot while standing outside a family party on Saturday night in…
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More than 300 now missing after yet another mass kidnapping in Nigeria
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Kaduna, Nigeria — Gunmen have abducted dozens of people from a northwest Nigerian village, according to two local representatives and a United Nations source, just days after the kidnapping of more than 250 pupils from a school in the same state. CBS News correspondent Debora Patta says armed groups, known locally as bandits, have wreaked…
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The US is enabling mass slaughter in Gaza – Europe can act to change that | Alexander Hurst
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Europe is flanked by two grotesque wars involving mass slaughter (Gaza is, after all, just 578km away from Cyprus), waged by far-right fanatics harbouring either imperial or colonial intentions, and for whom war has become inextricably tied up with holding on to political power. One war implicates European security directly; the other is a shot…
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Art exhibit honors fun-loving man killed in mass shooting in Maine
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WINSLOW, Maine — Peyton Brewer-Ross was the life of the party, with wraparound sunglasses and an outlandish Randy “Macho Man” Savage Slim Jim jacket. He also was a Navy shipbuilder, the father of a 2-year-old girl, and engaged to be married. Brewer-Ross, one of the 18 people killed in the deadliest mass shooting in Maine…
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‘We want everybody walking out’: UAW chief outlines mass strike for May 2028 | US unions
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Shawn Fain, the United Auto Workers president, criticized Donald Trump on Monday but declined to back Joe Biden as he reaffirmed plans to lead a general strike in the US in 2028. Speaking to union members at the UAW national political conference in Washington DC, Fain said it was time for union members to come…
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Pope Says ‘Our Hearts Are In Bethlehem’ As He Presides Over The Christmas Eve Mass
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Recalling Jesus’ birth in a stable in Bethlehem, Pope Francis in a Christmas Eve homily said that “the clash of arms even today” prevents Jesus “from finding room in the world.” The pontiff presided Sunday over the evening Mass attended by about 6,500 faithful who took their place amid the splendor…
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Pope says ‘our hearts are in Bethlehem’ as he presides over the Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Recalling Jesus’ birth in a stable in Bethlehem, Pope Francis in a Christmas Eve homily said that “the clash of arms even today” prevents Jesus “from finding room in the world.” The pontiff presided Sunday over the evening Mass attended by about 6,500 faithful who took their place amid the splendor…
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Xcel Takes 220 KSF at Denver Mass Timber Building
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Rendering of T3 RiNo in Denver. Image courtesy of Hines Xcel Energy-Colorado has preleased all 220,000-plus square feet of office space at T3 RiNo, a new Class A, six-story, mass timber office building in Denver’s River North (RiNo) Arts District. Ivanhoé Cambridge, Hines and McCaffery, the building’s co-developers, landed the leasing deal. Upon moving into…
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A year after a mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub, community feels supported but says work remains
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — After the mass shooting last November at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs that turned a drag queen’s birthday celebration into a massacre, the conservative community was forced to reckon with its reputation for being unwelcoming to gay, lesbian and transgender people. What exactly motivated the shooter, who didn’t grow up…
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Army Ammunition Plant Is Tied to Mass Shootings Across the U.S.
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Mass Shootings, Mass Sales In June 2012, James E. Holmes, the Colorado graduate student, ordered 1,500 rounds of Lake City ammunition from the website BulkAmmo.com, which had been offering discounts on boxes of the 5.56. He had them delivered to a FedEx shipping center near his home. The next month, Mr. Holmes stormed into a…
