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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay nearly $1 billion to Sandy Hook families for calling the 2012 school shooting a hoax. Nikki Battiste reports.
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay nearly $1 billion to Sandy Hook families for calling the 2012 school shooting a hoax. Nikki Battiste reports.
At least 36 people were killed, including children, after a gunman opened fire at a day care center in northeast Thailand Thursday, the worst mass shooting in the nation's history. Zachary Abuza, a professor at the National War College in Washington, D.C., joined CBS News to discuss gun violence in Thailand.
Roof was convicted in 2016 of killing nine in a racist attack on a South Carolina church's Black congregation.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and killed at a campaign speech Friday. Cecile Shea, a nonresident senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, joined CBS News to discuss how the assassination impacts domestic politics and foreign relations.
The entire Uvalde school district police force was suspended more than four months after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary. Several investigations into the police department and its response to the massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead are ongoing.
A Virginia man was killed by armed gang members while on vacation in Turks and Caicos, local police said.
Police in Philadelphia released video of the gunmen wanted in a shooting outside a high school on Tuesday that killed a 14-year-old football player and wounded four others.
At least 17 people were killed, including 11 children, when a gunman opened fire at a school in central Russia. Dozens were wounded.
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The incident is still under investigation, but police believe the woman was accidentally shot after her child gained access to a gun.
A U.S. law banning those under felony indictments from buying guns is unconstitutional, a federal judge in West Texas ruled.
President Biden is hosting the "United We Stand" summit at the White House on Thursday. The event is part of his administration's push to tackle the rise in hate-fueled violence plaguing Americans across the country. Susan Corke, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, joined CBS News to discuss the rise in extremism and her suggestions for the Biden administration to tamp down the violence.
Police have arrested a 19-year-old accused of going on a hourslong shooting rampage in Memphis that was livestreamed on social media. Memphis station WREG's Quametra Wilborn has the latest on the suspect's criminal history.
It was an emotional day as families in Uvalde, Texas, sent their kids back to school for the first time since a mass shooting killed 19 children and two teachers. The site of the massacre, Robb Elementary, has been permanently closed -- but despite the ramped up security, some parents and kids say they still don't feel safe. Lilia Luciano reports.
Angeli Rodriguez is entering fifth grade without her twin sister, Annabell, who was killed in the Uvalde school massacre. She is starting the semester from home because her parents “don’t feel safe” sending her to school — and they’re demanding gun reform in Texas.
The pattern is blamed on a lack of awareness of the laws and resistance by some authorities to enforce them despite high gun death rates.
Results of a new survey suggest that parental fears over their children's safety at school has spiked this year, amid mounting concerns about gun violence.
President Biden announced a new proposal aimed at reducing crime and gun violence during a trip to Pennsylvania Tuesday. His trip to the swing state comes roughly two months ahead of November's midterm elections. CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes has more on the president's speech.
The deadly mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, shocked the nation. Following that tragedy, CBS News worked with the team at CBS 11 in Dallas-Fort Worth to dig into state policies intended to prevent such tragedies. CBS News national investigative correspondent Stephen Stock joined John Dickerson with details on what they found.
President Biden traveled to Pennsylvania where he outlined his plan to combat gun violence amid a rise in crime across the nation. Nancy Cordes reports.
President Biden traveled to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to detail his $37 billion plan aimed at addressing gun violence. Washington Post deputy politics editor Sean Sullivan joins CBS News' John Dickerson to discuss the proposal.
President Biden travels to Pennsylvania to unveil a a new proposal aimed at reducing crime and gun violence in the U.S. His trip to the swing state comes roughly two months ahead of November's midterm elections. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe discusses the president's speech and other plans in the Keystone State.
Sharon Osbourne echoed his sentiment, saying, "It isn't the United States of America at all. Nothing's united about it."