The Trump administration is again seeking to lift a court order blocking construction of a new White House ballroom, citing recent gun violence incidents near the White House as justification for the urgent need for enhanced security.
At least 16 people were killed in two separate gun violence incidents in northern Honduras on Thursday. The first occurred at a palm farm, killing 10 workers, while the second was an ambush on police officers during an anti-gang operation, resulting in six officer deaths.
The White House Correspondents Association Dinner was one of several incidents of gun violence in the U.S. last week. Others ended in injuries and fatalities.
Families of seven victims killed in a mass shooting at a British Columbia secondary school have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company knew about the shooter's violent intentions eight months before the attack but failed to alert authorities. The lawsuits claim OpenAI's safety team identified the shooter’s account as posing a "credible and specific threat of gun violence" but leadership chose to deactivate the account instead of notifying Canadian police. The January 2026 attack in Tumbler Ridge killed five children, a teaching assistant, and the shooter’s mother and brother before the shooter took their own life at the school.
Families of victims from the Tumbler Ridge school shooting have filed lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging the company failed to report the shooter's violent planning to authorities and that its AI model was defectively designed to reinforce violent behavior.
Eight children were killed in a shooting spree early Sunday in the southern US state of Louisiana, in what police said appears to have been an incident of domestic violence. The incident, which took place just after 6am local time in the city of Shreveport, was the deadliest mass shooting in the United States in more than two years, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive. The gunman, who was not immediately identified but was an adult male, was fatally shot after a car chase and...
A man shot and killed eight children, seven of them his own, in Shreveport, Louisiana on Sunday morning. He also shot two women, including the mother of some children, seriously injuring them. The gunman, Shamar Elkins, 31, fled in a carjacked vehicle and was shot dead by police after a pursuit. It was the deadliest mass shooting in the United States in more than two years, according to Gun Violence Archive data.
