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A firefighter walks down the street where emergency services are responding to a shooting and fire at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan, on September 28, 2025.

How the mass shooting and a devastating fire unfolded at a Michigan church

Danya Gainor, CNN September 29, 2025

(CNN) — Far below the piercing spires atop every Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel is a small sign beckoning those who may want to come in. “Visitors welcome” messages are part...

Charlie Kirk shot and killed following Utah college event

Charlie Kirk shot and killed following Utah college event

Ari Collins, Beat reporter September 11, 2025

Charlie Kirk, prominent conservative influencer and founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed at a university event in Orem, Utah Sept. 10, 2025. Kirk was on the first stop of his “American...

City officials are asking people to come forward with information about an early morning shooting that injured more than two dozen people in Akron, Ohio, Sunday. Mike Vielhaber/News 5 Cleveland via AP

A 27-year-old man was killed and 24 other people were shot when gunfire erupted during an Ohio birthday party

CNN – A 27-year-old man was killed and 24 other people were shot after gunfire erupted early Sunday morning in Akron, Ohio, during what a police official said was a big birthday party. Officers responded...

Suspect in Texas massacre had been deported 4 times after entering US illegally, ICE source says

CNN– The man wanted by law enforcement in the fatal shooting Friday of five of his neighbors in Texas – including a 9-year-old boy – had entered the US illegally and been deported by immigration...

2 cheerleaders were shot in a Texas supermarket parking lot after one opened the door to the wrong vehicle. A suspect is under arrest

Alisha Ebrahimji and Tina Burnside, CNN April 20, 2023

CNN -- Two teenage cheerleaders were shot after one said she mistook the suspect’s vehicle for her own in a supermarket parking lot near Texas’ capital – one of at least four incidents this week in...

A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed after her friend turned into the wrong driveway in upstate New York, officials say

Laura Ly, CNN April 18, 2023

CNN -- A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed Saturday after she and three others accidentally turned into the wrong driveway while looking for a friend’s house in rural upstate New York, authorities...

OPINION: “Run, hide, fight.” 

OPINION: “Run, hide, fight.” 

Grace Clarke, Opinion Writer March 6, 2023

I was only 10 years old when I heard about the first school shooting in my lifetime: Sandy Hook. That should’ve been my first – and last time hearing of one. “Never again,” they said. But...

OUR VIEW: We demand an end to school shootings

OUR VIEW: We demand an end to school shootings

How many more? How many more students have to die? How many more school shootings need to happen? When will we see change? As of Thursday, there have been 84 mass shootings in the United States...

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Drew Angerer May 4, 2021

HAMPTON BAYS, NY - FEBRUARY 20: An NYPD officer arrives for the funeral service of fallen NYPD Detective Brian Simonsen at the Church of St. Rosalie, February 20, 2019 in Hampton Bays, New York. Thousands...

Brian Barnes was named director of basketball operations in 2018, and has been with the men’s basketball program for nearly six years. May 2, 2021.

Brian Barnes, director of basketball operations, dies at 28

Brian Barnes, director of basketball operations for Kent State men’s basketball, died on Sunday, May 2 at the age of 28.KentWired was not able to confirm Barnes’ cause of death at the time of publication. Barnes...

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Troy Pierson August 17, 2020

From the south lobby, one can see down to the second and first floors. Campbell said visibility was a key component of the design process to incorporate natural light into the building. Pictured here is...

Maria Kerkhove, WHO's technical lead for coronavirus response and head of its emerging diseases and zoonoses unit.

WHO clarifies comments on asymptomatic spread of coronavirus: ‘There’s much unknown’

Jacqueline Howard, CNN June 9, 2020

 (CNN) -- The World Health Organization tried on Tuesday to clear up confusing comments about how often people can spread the coronavirus when they do not have symptoms.The organization held a live Q&A...

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