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• El Paso suspect appears to have posted anti-immigrant screed

  04-08-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  About 20 minutes before the shooting started at an El Paso Walmart, a rambling screed was posted to an online message board saying the massacre was in response to an "invasion" of Hispanics coming across the southern border.Investigators increasingly believe these are the words of 21-year-old suspect Patrick Crusius, who surrendered shortly after Saturday's rampage , and they are looking closely at the writing as they consider whether to prosecute the slaughter of 20 people and the wounding of 2
  
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• Dayton shooting victims identified; suspect's sister among the dead

  04-08-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A student pursuing a master's degree in cancer care and the young mother of a newborn were among those killed Sunday in Dayton.
  
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• El Paso shooting suspect Patrick Crusius could face the death penalty; hate crime charges possible

  04-08-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A gunman's rampage at an El Paso Walmart that left 20 dead and dozens injured was being investigated as a possible hate crime Sunday.
  
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• This is the gun control legislation Mitch McConnell won't allow senators to vote on

  04-08-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has blocked background check legislation that had previously passed the House. Here's what that legislation would do.
  
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• At least 9 dead, 27 injured. Victims identified. What we know about the Dayton, Ohio shooting

  04-08-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Nine people were killed and at least 27 were injured when a gunman opened fire in Dayton, Ohio. Here's what we know.
  
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• Ohio shooting: Police have identified 24-year-old man as suspect who killed 9 in Dayton shooting

  04-08-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A 24-year-old man has been identified as the shooter who killed nine people, including his 22-year-old sister, Megan Betts, in Dayton, Ohio.
  
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• Aide: Sen Mitch McConnell trips, breaks shoulder in Kentucky

  04-08-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is recovering at home in Kentucky after suffering a shoulder fracture in a fall Sunday, a spokesman said.McConnell tripped on his outdoor patio at his Louisville home Sunday morning, and has been treated and released after getting medical attention, said David Popp, a spokesman for the Kentucky Republican.
  
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• Jordan Anchondo killed shielding her 2-month-old in El Paso, Texas shooting

  04-08-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Mother of 3, Jordan Anchondo, died in the mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart while shielding her 2-month-old baby, according to her sister.
  
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• Protesters aim to paralyse Hong Kong with city-wide strike

  04-08-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Pro-democracy protesters hope to ramp up pressure on Hong Kong's embattled pro-Beijing leaders by launching a city-wide strike Monday in a bid to show there is still broad public support for their movement despite weeks of chaos."I really understand how some people will face huge pressures from their supervisors," she added.
  
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• Canadian police divers search river for missing teen murder suspects

  04-08-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Canadian police divers are searching a river for two missing teenagers suspected of a double murder, after finding an abandoned boat on its shores.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been chasing Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, for weeks since the pair were connected to two separate killings in British Columbia earlier this month.Authorities announced on 31 July that they were scaling back the search, which had taken officers to the remote town of Gillam in northern Manitoba.
  
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• Teen Arrested After Allegedly Throwing 6-Year-Old Off Roof at London's Tate Modern, Police Say

  04-08-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  London police say a teenager has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a child was thrown from the 10th floor viewing platform at the Tate Modern museum.
  
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• Talking to kids about El Paso, Dayton shootings? Use the 4 S's to discuss cruel violence

  04-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  More than two dozen people were killed this weekend in two separate shootings. The 4 S's help parents prepare for explaining the unfathomable.
  
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• Trump Says ‘Hate Has No Place’ in U.S. After Two Mass Killings

  04-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Two mass shootings within 24 hours put the nation’s focus back onto gun control and, given the alleged anti-immigrant views of a shooter in Texas, elevate the issue of the dangers of hate speech.In his first verbal response to the killings, which left about 30 people dead, President Donald Trump said that “hate has no place” in the U.S.Gun control has been a mostly peripheral theme on the Democrats’ 2020 campaign trail until now. Some have written it off as
  
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• Majority of House Democrats back a Trump impeachment inquiry, adding pressure to Nancy Pelosi to act

  04-08-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been reluctant to move on impeachment of Donald Trump but it may be harder to avoid now that most Democrats support it.
  
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• Mitch McConnell fractures his shoulder

  04-08-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  He “has been treated, released and is working from home in Louisville,” his communications director said.
  
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• Police: Shooter killed 9 in Ohio, including his sister

  04-08-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A gunman in body armor opened fire early Sunday in a popular entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio, killing nine people, including his sister, and wounding dozens of others before he was quickly slain by police, city officials said.Connor Betts, 24, was killed by police less than a minute after he started shooting a .223-caliber rifle in the streets of Dayton's historic Oregon District about 1 a.m. in the second U.S. mass shooting in less than 24 hours.Police haven't released further informatio
  
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• Chicago shootings leave 40 shot, 3 fatally; Mt. Sinai Hospital closes emergency room

  04-08-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  A West Side hospital is not accepting any more patients to its emergency room after a violent weekend in which 40 people were shot, three fatally, across the city.
  
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• You Probably Forgot All about These Great Performing '90s Cars

  04-08-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The '90s were great for semi-secret performance cars like these.From Car and Driver
  
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• More than 175 killed worldwide in last eight years in white nationalist-linked attacks

  04-08-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 16 high-profile attacks have been motivated by white nationalist conspiracy theoriesProtesters against gun violence dressed in white march in Times Square in response to recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday in New York City.Photograph: Go Nakamura/Getty ImagesIn the past eight years, more than 175 people around the world have been killed in at least 16 high-profile attacks motivated, or apparently motivated, by white nationalist conspiracy theories, includ
  
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• 175 people killed worldwide in last eight years in white nationalist-linked attacks

  04-08-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 16 high-profile attacks have been motivated by white nationalist conspiracy theoriesProtesters against gun violence dressed in white march in Times Square in response to recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Denton, Ohio, on Sunday in New York City.Photograph: Go Nakamura/Getty ImagesIn the past eight years, more than 175 people around the world have been killed in at least 16 high-profile attacks motivated, or apparently motivated, by white nationalist conspiracy theories, includ
  
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• The Latest: Sanders urges steps to address gun violence

  04-08-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has opened a town hall meeting in North Las Vegas with a moment of silence for the victims of the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.Sanders said, "Assault weapons are designed for one reason.
  
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• Protesters, police play cat-and-mouse game across Hong Kong

  04-08-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  While past nights of protest have ended in protracted standoffs between demonstrators and riot police, rally participants this time took a different tack."We can't defend it!" was the cry that signaled to protesters it was time to move out.It meant that police had appeared and were firing tear gas.
  
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• Dayton, El Paso, Gilroy and beyond: You're right to be afraid. Mass shootings are more numerous and deadly

  04-08-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A survey found 41% of Americans fear random mass shootings. FBI data shows a rise in shootings – and victims – so that's not an unreasonable fear.
  
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• France, Germany condemn Russia protest crackdown

  04-08-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  France and Germany on Sunday condemneda Russian police crackdown on a banned opposition rally that saw hundreds detained, with Paris criticising an "excessive use of force" after a second weekend of protests over the exclusion of opposition candidates from local Moscow polls next month.Berlin said the police action on Saturday "violated" Russia's international obligations and undermines the right to fair elections in the country.The arrests on Saturday were "out of all proportion to the peaceful
  
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• El Paso attack becomes America's 250th mass shooting this year

  04-08-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Two gun attacks in the space of 24 hours have taken the number of mass shootings in America to 250 this year.Shortly after an armoured gunman opened fire near a bar in downtown Dayton, Ohio, adding at least nine more names to the list of dead, the mayor of that city wondered why.In a press conference on Sunday morning, Nan Whaley questioned why her city had to be the latest face of mass murder in a country that has seen an epidemic of gun violence that experts say has only gotten worse in recent
  
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• Teen arrested after 'throwing' boy from London's Tate Modern

  04-08-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  A teenager was arrested on Sunday after allegedly throwing a six-year-old boy from a tenth-floor viewing platform of London's Tate Modern gallery, police said.The boy was airlifted to hospital and is in a critical condition, while the 17-year-old male suspect is being held on suspicion of attempted murder.The Tate Modern, a leading contemporary art museum on the banks of the River Thames, was initially locked down but visitors were later allowed to leave.
  
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• After pair of mass shootings, Trump remains out of sight

  04-08-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  As the nation reeled from two mass shootings in less than a day, President Donald Trump spent the first hours after the tragedies out of sight at his New Jersey golf course, sending out tweets of support awkwardly mixed in with those promoting a celebrity fight and attacking his political foes.Trump was to travel back to Washington later Sunday and aides said he would likely address reporters, but the nation did not glimpse the president in the immediate aftermath of a shooting in El Paso, Texas
  
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• Mexico to Announce Legal Actions to Protect Mexicans in U.S.

  04-08-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Mexico will take legal measures to protect Mexican nationals in the U.S. after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday killed at least three Mexicans, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said.The country’s “indignation” will be translated into effective and expedited legal action that will demand conditions to protect Mexicans in the U.S., Ebrard said in a video posted on Twitter Sunday.“Mexico expresses its deepest rejection and condemnation towards thi
  
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• 2 mass shootings in less than 24 hours shock US

  04-08-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Two mass shootings at crowded public places in Texas and Ohio claimed at least 29 lives in less than 24 hours and left scores of people wounded, a shocking carnage even in a country accustomed to gun violence.In the Texas border city of El Paso, a gunman opened fire Saturday morning in a shopping area packed with thousands of people during the busy back-to-school season.
  
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• El Paso, Dayton make 251 mass shootings in the US in 216 days, more shootings than days in the year

  04-08-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Dayton, Ohio. El Paso, Texas. These are the latest mass shootings in America, drawing the number of killings to a stark total, just days after Gilroy.
  
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• Iran seizes third foreign ship in less than month

  04-08-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran has seized a foreign tanker in the Gulf, state media said Sunday, in what would be the third such seizure in a month amid heightened tensions with its foe the United States.The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps "seized this ship around Farsi Island which was carrying around 700,000 litres of smuggled fuel", said a Guards statement quoted by the official news agency IRNA.Seven foreign crew were arrested in the operation carried out on Wednesday night, said Fars news agency, which is consider
  
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• Democrats condemn mass shootings – and point finger at Trump

  04-08-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  * O’Rourke: ‘We have a problem with white nationalist terror’* Castro warns of ‘toxic brew’ of white nationalismKamala Harris: ‘We cannot remain idle and allow this level of carnage to ravage our communities. We need courage. We need to act.’ Photograph: Robin Buckson/APTwin mass shootings, 13 hours apart, in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, were swiftly condemned by Democratic politicians.The presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, who formerly rep
  
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• Attack on Texas shoppers to be handled as domestic terrorism

  04-08-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The shooting that killed 20 people at a crowded El Paso shopping area will be handled as a domestic terrorism case, federal authorities said Sunday as they weighed hate-crime charges against the suspected gunman that could carry the death penalty.
  
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• The Latest: Neighbors recall Ohio shooter being 'good kid'

  04-08-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Neighbors and classmates of the Dayton shooter were surprised that he was at the center of a mass shooting that killed nine people and injured dozens.A neighbor whose property is near Connor Betts' family home says he often saw the 24-year-old doing everyday activities like walking the dog or mowing the lawn.Brad Howard, a longtime classmate of Betts, was shocked.
  
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• Report: Iran seizes tanker carrying 'smuggled fuel' in Gulf

  04-08-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Iranian forces seized a ship in the Persian Gulf suspected of carrying smuggled fuel, state media reported Sunday, marking the Revolutionary Guard's third seizure of a vessel in recent weeks and the latest show of strength by the paramilitary force amid a spike in regional tensions. State TV and the semi-official Fars news agency reported that seven crew members were detained when the ship was seized late Wednesday carrying 700,000 liters (185,000 gallons) of "smuggled fuel" from Iran. The islan
  
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• Israel unveils prototype 'tanks of the future'

  04-08-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel unveiled options Sunday for its "combat vehicle of the future" -- a tank with large touchscreens, 360-degree vision and, in one prototype, a video game-style controller.The ministry of defence wants to procure an armoured vehicle that can be operated by two soldiers instead of four with the hatch closed, something officials involved in the project say would be a unique achievement.The ministry tasked three Israeli companies -- state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries and Rafael Advanced De
  
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• Republican officials point to video games after El Paso mass shooting

  04-08-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  After a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas left 20 people dead, Republican officials partially blamed the attacks of terror on violent video games.
  
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• Iran seizes third tanker and seven sailors in Persian Gulf

  04-08-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran yesterday said it had captured an oil tanker and seven sailors it accused of “smuggling” fuel through the Persian Gulf to Arab states – the third such seizure in recent months.   Iranian state television reported that the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp detained the tanker, its crew and 700,000 litres of fuel on Wednesday. "The seizure of the oil tanker was in coordination with Iran's judiciary authorities and based on their order
  
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• Brazil gang leader dresses up as daughter in jail escape bid

  04-08-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A Brazilian gang leader tried to escape from prison by dressing up as his daughter when she visited him behind bars and walking out the penitentiary's main door in her place, authorities said Sunday.Rio's State Secretary of Prison Administration released photos showing da Silva in a silicon girl's mask and long dark-haired wig, wearing tight jeans and a pink shirt with a cartoon image of donuts.Authorities say da Silva was part of the leadership of the Red Command, one of the most powerful crimi
  
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• 2020 candidates directly call out Trump in the wake of two mass shootings

  04-08-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  America has had 251 mass shootings in the 216 days of 2019, and with each devastating news cycle it gets harder and harder to accept the fact that President Donald Trump tweets "thoughts and prayers" instead of taking any real action on gun control.In the wake of a recent mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, and another in Dayton, Ohio -- which took place in the same 24-hour period -- 2020 presidential candidates Beto O'Rourke, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg are ste
  
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• Alert for Pakistan villagers amid tension with India

  04-08-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistani authorities on Sunday asked villagers along the heavily militarised de facto Kashmir border to remain alert as tensions rose with India.The advisory came after Pakistani officials evacuated more than 50 Chinese nationals working on a dam being constructed in Pakistani Kashmir along the confluence of the Neelum and Jhelum rivers.Pakistan on Sunday accused India of using cluster bombs against civilians in the same area, in Noseri sector.
  
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• Trump tweets as gun violence and white nationalist terrorism stalk America

  04-08-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Domestic terrorism now results in more deaths than the foreign kind but the president shows no sign of toning down his rhetoricDonald Trump takes part in a listening session on 21 February 2018 on gun violence with teachers and students after the mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty ImagesTwo menaces have stalked America throughout its history. One is gun violence. The other is white supremacy. In El Paso, Texas, on Saturday they collided.A 21-year
  
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• Trump smirked at idea of shooting migrants at rally three months before El Paso massacre

  04-08-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump laughed and joked after a supporter suggested shooting Mexican migrants at a rally in May 2019.The clip of the interaction is once again spreading across social media, as the US reels from the El Paso massacre.“When you have 15,000 people marching up, and you have hundreds and hundreds of [immigrants], and you have two or three border security people that are brave and great – and don’t forget we don’t let them and we can’t let them use weapons,”
  
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• Teen arrested in boy's fall from top of London's Tate Modern

  04-08-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A teenager was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder Sunday after a 6-year-old child was thrown from the 10th floor viewing platform at London's Tate Modern art gallery, police said.The Metropolitan Police said officers and paramedics found the injured child on a fifth-floor roof of the Tate."A 17-year-old male had remained with members of the public on the10th floor viewing platform," the statement said.
  
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• Nigeria security agents arrest activist for calling for revolution

  04-08-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Nigerian security agents arrested Omoyele Sowore, an activist, news organization founder and former presidential candidate who was calling for revolution, the security agency said on Sunday.Sowore, a human rights activist who founded Nigerian online news organization Sahara Reporters and ran for president as a minor candidate in the February election, was arrested by the State Security Service on Saturday.The detention comes as President Muhammadu Buhari, who won a second term in the election, f
  
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• Wife of Syria's Assad says she is free of cancer

  04-08-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The wife of Syria's president said she is "completely" free of breast cancer a year after her diagnosis, in an interview with state TV.The half-hour interview, aired late Saturday, was Asma Assad's first since she was diagnosed — a rare declaration in the Arab world, where prominent figures often conceal their ailments.It was also designed to portray a modern attitude in a region where cancer remains a taboo, and many view it as an affliction.
  
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• Patrick Crusius identified as El Paso suspected shooter, sources tell ABC News

  04-08-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal authorities are treating the shooting, which "appears to be designed to intimidate a civilian population," as a case of domestic terrorism.
  
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• At least 20 dead. Suspected gunman could face death penalty. What we know about the El Paso shooting

  04-08-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 20 people were killed after a suspected gunman went on a rampage Saturday at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. Here's what we know so far.
  
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• Shooter who killed 9 in Ohio is identified as man in his 20s

  04-08-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The shooter who killed nine people and injured dozens when he opened fire early Sunday in a popular nightlife area of Dayton, Ohio, before being quickly killed by police was a man in his 20s named Connor Betts, a law enforcement official said.Betts was killed by police less than a minute after he opened fire with a .223-caliber rifle in the streets of the Oregon District around 1 a.m. Sunday in the second U.S. mass shooting in less than 24 hours.Police haven't released further information about
  
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• At least 9 dead, 26 injured. Suspect identified. What we know about the Dayton, Ohio shooting

  04-08-2019 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Nine people were killed and at least 26 were injured when a gunman opened fire in Dayton, Ohio. Here's what we know.
  
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