Factbox: Victims of the California bar mass shooting
A police veteran, college students and the niece of an actress were among the victims of a deadly shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, a suburb 40 miles (64 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
In memoir, Michelle Obama says she’ll never forgive Trump birther claims
Former first lady Michelle Obama will never forgive President Donald Trump for promoting a bigoted conspiracy theory that questioned whether her husband was born in the United States, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
Thousands flee three swift-moving California blazes
Three fast-moving wildfires burned in California on Friday morning, including one that spurred the evacuation of 75,000 homes near a city that was still reeling from a mass shooting.
As California city reels from shooting, wildfires threaten
Even as the South California city of Thousand Oaks reeled from a mass shooting in which a gunman killed 12 people in a bar packed with college students, a spreading wildfire forced thousands of people to flee their homes in a nearby area on Friday.
North Carolina ‘active shooter’ was faulty water heater: local media
Reports of an “active shooter” situation at a North Carolina high school on Friday was a false alarm caused by a faulty water heater that sounded like machine gun fire, local media reported.
Before he is ousted, Sessions limits U.S. oversight of local police
The U.S. Department of Justice has moved to sharply curtail federal authority aimed at curtailing abuse and civil rights violations at local police departments across the country by directing U.S. attorneys to limit the use of consent decrees and settl…
Three fast-moving California blazes cause thousands to flee
Three fast-moving wildfires burned in California on Friday morning, including one that spurred the evacuation of 75,000 homes near a city that was still reeling from a mass shooting.
Law enforcement responding to active shooter situation at North Carolina school: local media
Law enforcement was responding on Friday to active shooter situation at a high school in North Carolina, local media reported.
FBI hopes to learn what drove ex-Marine to kill 12 in California bar
The FBI is hoping to build a clear profile of a former U.S. Marine combat veteran who killed 12 people in a crowded Los Angeles area bar to discover a motive for the latest shooting massacre in the United States.
Supreme Court justice Ginsburg ‘up and working’ after fall
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is already up and working in her hospital room, a day after breaking three ribs in a fall, her nephew said late on Thursday at the Hollywood premiere of a film about her life.
