Gunman in Florida shooting referenced Boston Marathon bombers: official
BOSTON (Reuters) – The gunman who killed at least 50 people at an Orlando gay club referenced the brothers who carried out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, a Massachusetts State Police spokesman said on Sunday.
Islamic State claims responsibility for Orlando nightclub shooting
CAIRO (Reuters) – Islamic State’s Amaq news agency said on Sunday that the Islamist militant group was responsible for the shooting that killed at least 50 people in a massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
U.S. homeland security chief cancels China trip after Orlando shooting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said in a release on Sunday he is cancelling a business trip to Beijing after the shooting in Orlando, the worst in U.S. history.
Senate Democrat seeks military-style weapons ban after shooting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Democratic U.S. senator on Sunday called on Congress to ban military-style weapons and stop firearm sales to suspected extremists following the largest mass shooting in U.S. history.
Lawmaker says local officials suspect Orlando shooter aligned with Islamic State
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Democrat on a congressional intelligence committee said local law enforcement believed the suspect in Sunday’s deadly Orlando shooting had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State militant group.
Protesters to decry Stanford rape sentence at graduation ceremony
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Students and rights groups plan to demonstrate at Stanford University’s commencement on Sunday to express outrage over the 6-month jail sentence handed to a former student convicted of sexual assault on the California campus, or…
‘Voice’ singer Christina Grimmie fatally shot after Florida show
(Reuters) – A man thought to be a deranged fan fatally shot Christina Grimmie, a rising singing star who gained fame on YouTube and as a contestant on television’s “The Voice,” while she was signing autographs after a concert in Orlando, Florida, polic…
Singers vie to play Shkreli, America’s ‘most-hated man’, in musical
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Fourteen fame-hungry young men tried to out-smug each other at a small studio in Manhattan’s Theater District on Saturday to prove they could play ‘America’s most hated man’ in a new musical comedy about pilloried former drug execu…
Anonymous bidder pays $3.46 million for Warren Buffett lunch
(Reuters) – An anonymous bidder agreed at auction to pay $3,456,789 to eat lunch with Warren Buffett, tying the record for the right to dine with one of the world’s most admired investors.
Nebraska captures one of two sex offenders who escaped prison
(Reuters) – One of two convicted sex offenders who broke out of a Nebraska prison this week was captured on Saturday in a storm drain after an intensive manhunt, while the other remains at large, the Nebraska State Patrol said.
