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Lone survivor of South Carolina mass shooting has now died, coroner says, bringing death toll to 6
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Robert Shook, the air conditioning technician wounded Wednesday in a mass shooting in Rock Hill, South Carolina, died Saturday, York County Coroner Sabrina Gast said. Shook had been the only survivor of the six shooting victims. Shook was 38. He died at Atrium Health Care in Charlotte after he was airlifted from Wednesday’s shooting scene, Gast said. Shook was from Grover in Cleveland County, Gast said. The suspect in the case was former NFL player Phillip Adams, York County Sheriff Kevin Tolson said Thursday. Five people at the home of a prominent local doctor, Robert Lessli...
The Charlotte Observer
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Trudy Rubin: A royal game of thrones in Jordan unnerves the Middle East
The Shakespearean drama that just erupted in the Mideast kingdom of Jordan — involving an angry monarch, a spurned prince and an alleged coup plot — was astonishing for several reasons. First, because Americans tend to take the kingdom for granted, a moderate monarchy, short on resources but with an educated population at peace with Israel, with whom it shares a very long border, and an ally of the United States. And second, because — although the Jordanian royal court is rife with enough intrigue to fill several seasons of "The Crown" — those machinations rarely explode in public as they did ...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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‘Thank God I’m safe’: NRA leader sought refuge from public outrage aboard yacht after mass school shootings
NRA leader Wayne LaPierre says he faced an unprecedented “security threat” in the wake of bloody rampages at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut and a Parkland, Florida, high school — and had to seek refuge aboard his Hollywood producer friend’s 108-foot yacht. In a chutzpah-rich deposition, the politically powerful gun rights advocate said the fancy vessel christened “The Illusion” was one of the few places he felt safe from the national outrage that erupted after the slaughter of innocent children with military-grade firearms. “They simply let me use it as a security retreat because they kn...
New York Daily News
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Biden administration receives extension on decision to release Trump taxesThe Biden administration again asked a federal judge for another month to decide whether to turn over former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to Congress. In a court filing Wednesday, the Treasury Department said it was still weighing how to respond to a subpoena by House Democrats seeking six years of Trump’s personal and business tax returns. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden later granted the extension to April 30. Earlier this month, he had delayed the deadline to March 31 from March 3. After the previous exten...
Tribune News Service
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2 Capitol Police officers sue Trump for inciting Jan. 6 siege
Two U.S. Capitol police officers who defended the Capitol building against a mob of rioters are suing former President Donald Trump for the physical and emotional injuries they suffered in the deadly Jan. 6 attack. Officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby were punched, pummeled and threatened by insurrections who broke through police barricades and stormed the Capitol at the behest of the former president, according to the suit filed Tuesday in Washington, D.C., federal court. The lawsuit is the first filed by Capitol Police officers against the former president. Hemby, an 11-year veteran o...
New York Daily News
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2 killed, at least 8 injured in Virginia Beach Oceanfront shootings
Two people were killed and at least eight were wounded in a series of shootings that took place Friday in Virginia Beach, according to authorities. Multiple gunshots were heard in the city’s resort area at 11:22 p.m. Friday, Virginia Beach Police said Saturday in a news release. Eight had been brought to hospitals for gunshot wounds, some of which “range from serious to life threatening,” the release notes. Among those wounded in the oceanfront shooting was a Virginia Beach police officer, who sustained minor injuries. An adult female was among the deceased. She died of her injuries on the sce...
New York Daily News
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Boulder mass shooting suspect appears in court in wheelchair days after King Soopers massacre
The man charged with killing 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket was brought into court in a wheelchair Thursday for his first hearing in the case. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, who was wounded in the leg during a shootout with police, wore a purple hospital gown and a white face mask and spoke only to confirm he understood the charges against him. A public defender assigned to represent him asked the court for a continuance of 60 to 90 days so the “nature and depth” of the suspect’s mental health can be determined. “Our position is we cannot do anything until we are able to fully assess Mr...
New York Daily News
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Boulder mass shooting suspect appears in court in wheelchair days after King Soopers massacre
The man accused of killing 10 people at a King Soopers store in Boulder, Colorado, this week appeared in court for the first time Thursday morning. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, was rolled into the courtroom in a wheelchair for a brief hearing and left without entering a plea. A public defender assigned to represent him asked the court for a continuance of 60 to 90 days so the “nature and depth” of the suspect’s mental health can be fully assessed. Alissa, who was wearing a blue paper gown and a white face mask, only spoke to confirm he understood the charges against him. Judge Thomas Mulvahill o...
New York Daily News
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On March For Our Lives anniversary, advocates, lawmakers call for Senate changes
WASHINGTON — On the third anniversary of the 2018 March For Our Lives demonstrations around the country, Parkland parents, former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students and members of Congress want the U.S. Senate to change its rules to allow gun control legislation to become law with a simple majority. On Tuesday, Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch, who represents Parkland, said he supports a return to a “talking filibuster,” forcing senators to show up in person on the Senate floor to oppose bills that do not have the support of at least 60 senators. Recently passed House bills that would exp...
Miami Herald
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Boulder shooting suspect Ahmad Alissa, 21, bought his AR-style weapon last week
The suspect in the horrific supermarket shooting that left 10 dead in Boulder, Colorado, has been identified as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, a local man who bought a semi-automatic weapon just last week. The 21-year-old from the nearby suburb of Arvada is now facing 10 counts of first-degree murder in the Monday massacre at a King Soopers grocery store, Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold said. Witnesses said the shooter was wearing a green tactical vest and toting an AR-15-style weapon as he unleashed his deadly rampage around 2:40 p.m. local time, according to the arrest warrant affidavit obtained b...
New York Daily News
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