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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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• El Paso shooting: Texas massacre investigated as domestic terror

  04-08-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Leading Democrats demanded the Trump administration act to curb white nationalists following the worst attack on Latinos in US history. The US president was accused of stoking up the hatred with his rhetoric, including his vitriolic attack on four ethnic minority congresswomen last month. It was this climate, Democrats said, which culminated in the carnage at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas leaving 20 dead and 26 injured, of whom three are reported to be in a critical condition. Attention focu
  
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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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• 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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• 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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• Jordan Anchondo killed shielding her 2-month-old in El Paso, Texas shooting

  04-08-2019 21:56 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, 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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• Police: Shooter killed 9 in Ohio, including his sister

  04-08-2019 21:32 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Black Republican Exiting House Says He Wants a GOP More Like Him

  04-08-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Texas Representative Will Hurd, the House’s lone black Republican who has announced he won’t seek re-election next year, said he wants instead to help candidates who resemble him reach office.Hurd, who has broken with President Donald Trump on some issues and whose Texas district backed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that his decision not to run again wasn’t based on whether the president would hu
  
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• Man, nanny found dead in double murder at suburban New Jersey home

  04-08-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Police confirmed that they started investigating the murders of a man and a woman at a home on Walton Road near Jefferson Avenue in Maplewood around 6 a.m.
  
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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Teenager arrested after boy thrown off viewing platform at London's Tate Modern

  04-08-2019 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after reports that a young boy had been thrown from a 10th floorviewing platform at the Tate Modern art gallery in central London, the police said on Sunday."A 17-year-old male had remained with members of the public on the tenth floor viewing platform," the police said.
  
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• Gunman's Sister Among 9 Killed in Dayton Shooting. Here's What We Know So Far

  04-08-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  10 people were killed, including the shooter's sister
  
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• Dayton Shooting Lasted Just 32 Seconds and Left 9 Dead. Here's the Latest on the Tragedy

  04-08-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Here's what we know so far
  
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• Dayton Shooter Was Trying to Enter Bar With Assault Rifle and 100-Round Magazine When He Was Killed

  04-08-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Here's what we know so far
  
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• 9 killed in Ohio in second US mass shooting within 24 hours

  04-08-2019 18:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A shooter in body armor and carrying extra magazines opened fire early Sunday in a popular nightlife area of Dayton, Ohio, killing nine and injuring dozens before being slain by police, authorities say, in the second U.S. mass shooting in less than 24 hours.Police patrolling the area responded in less than a minute to the shooting, which unfolded around 1 a.m. on the streets of downtown Dayton's Oregon District, Mayor Nan Whaley said.Had police not responded so quickly, "hundreds of people in th
  
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• Not Even ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ From NRA—Just Boasts About Its Legislative Wins

  04-08-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  At times like this, I pay a visit to the NRA’s website. If you’ve never looked at it, do so. As you’d expect, it’s a slick and professionally produced affair, nearly all of it devoted to boasting about the group’s successes and legislative wins. There wasn’t a word, Sunday morning, about the weekend’s carnage in El Paso and Dayton. There was, however, one piece of content that the weekend’s events turned into a macabre joke. The lead story, so
  
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• Iran seizes third foreign ship in less than month

  04-08-2019 18:05 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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• Dayton Shooter Murdered Sister in Attack, Officials Say

  04-08-2019 17:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Bryan Woolston/ReutersThe gunman who attacked a bar in Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday morning killed his sister in the massacre, officials said.Connor Betts, 24, of Ohio was identified as the deceased gunman by authorities during a Sunday afternoon press conference. Betts killed his sister, 22-year-old Megan, and eight other people, officials added. At least 26 other people were injured.Betts drove to the site of the shooting with his sister and an unidentified male companion, according to Police Chief
  
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• Suspect sought after woman stabbed in stomach at Brooklyn subway station

  04-08-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Police released video of the suspect wanted in connection with a stabbing on a subway platform in Brooklyn.
  
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• Global warming brings wildfire risk to rainy US Northwest

  04-08-2019 17:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Nestled in the foothills of Washington's Cascade Mountains, the bustling Seattle suburb of Issaquah seems an unlikely candidate for anxiety over wildfires.The region, famous for its rainfall, has long escaped major burns even as global warming has driven an increase in the size and number of wildfires elsewhere in the American West.In Issaquah and towns like it across the region, that takes a shape familiar from recent destructive California wildfires: heavy vegetation that spills into backyards
  
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• Sherrod Brown rips Republican inaction on guns

  04-08-2019 17:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The Ohio Democrat also assails Trump for “racist, divisive talk.”
  
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• Floating nuclear power plant to be towed across Russian Arctic despite 'Chernobyl on ice' concerns

  04-08-2019 16:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The wind and rain whipped by at several feet per second as crew members stepped outside for a quick smoke, but the world's only floating nuclear power plant barely shifted in the choppy waves of the Kola bay. The length of one-and-a-half football pitches, the Academic Lomonosov looks the part as the vanguard of Russia's “nuclearification” of the Arctic, at least now that its rusty hull has been repainted in the white, red and blue of the national flag.  Later this month it
  
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• Turkey to launch offensive in Kurdish-controlled area in northern Syria: Erdogan

  04-08-2019 16:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates in northern Syria, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, its third offensive to dislodge Kurdish militia fighters close to its border.Turkey had in the past warned of carrying out military operations east of the river, but put them on hold after agreeing with the United States to create a safe zone inside Syria's northeastern border with Turkey that would be cleared of the Kurdish YPG militia
  
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• UPDATE 3-Turkey to launch offensive in Kurdish-controlled area in northern Syria -Erdogan

  04-08-2019 16:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates in northern Syria, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, its third offensive to dislodge Kurdish militia fighters close to its border.Turkey had in the past warned of carrying out military operations east of the river, but put them on hold after agreeing with the United States to create a safe zone inside Syria's northeastern border with Turkey that would be cleared of the Kurdish YPG militia
  
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• UPDATE 2-Turkey to launch offensive in Kurdish-controlled area in northern Syria -Erdogan

  04-08-2019 16:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates in northern Syria, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, its third offensive to dislodge Kurdish militia fighters close to its border.Turkey had in the past warned of carrying out military operations east of the river, but put them on hold after agreeing with the United States to create a safe zone inside Syria along its northeastern border with Turkey that would be cleared of the Kurdish YPG
  
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• Mulvaney defends Trump on mass shootings

  04-08-2019 16:55 via news.yahoo.com
  “What can you do? You have to try and fix the society, right?“
  
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• Thousands take to Hong Kong streets as Beijing says protests must stop

  04-08-2019 16:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands again took to the streets on Sunday in Hong Kong to call for broad political changes as Beijing warned that it would not let protests persist.  A commentary run by Xinhua, China's official state news agency said the central government “will not sit idly by and let this situation continue." Two demonstrations snaked through Hong Kong, one close to China’s liaison office in Hong Kong, now heavily guarded after it was vandalised by protesters a few weeks ago.  Demons
  
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• Poll shows Germany still divided 30 years after fall of Berlin Wall

  04-08-2019 16:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Almost 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new poll has exposed the enduring political divisions in Germany. The nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has surged to first place in the former communist east, with 23 per cent support. But it has failed to make a similar breakthrough in the former west, where it is in fourth place with just 12 per cent. The figures for the Green Party, which is in second place in the national polls, are almost a mirror image of the AfD&rsqu
  
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• US struggles to build willing coalition amid Hormuz tensions

  04-08-2019 16:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States is struggling to piece together an international coalition to protect cargo ships travelling through the Strait of Hormuz, with allies concerned about being dragged into conflict with Iran.Tensions have risen in the Gulf since the United States decided in May 2018 to withdraw from a landmark accord to limit Iran's nuclear programme and began to reintroduce sanctions.On Sunday, Australia became the latest ally seeming to give the plan a wide berth.
  
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• Russian opposition plans new protest despite over 1,000 arrests

  04-08-2019 16:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia's anti-Kremlin opposition said it was planning a nationwide protest next weekend despite police forcibly detaining over 1,000 people on Saturday for attending what they said was an illegal march in Moscow to demand free elections.Saturday's protest, conceived by opposition activists as a peaceful walk to protest against the exclusion of their candidates from a Moscow election next month, was systematically and sometimes violently dispersed by police.Russian investigators had initiated a c
  
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• El Paso shooting at Walmart leaves 20 people dead

  04-08-2019 16:16 via news.yahoo.com
  * Police say 21 year-old white man in custody after shooting at mall complex* Incident being investigated as a potential hate crimeTwenty people have been killed after a shooter opened fire at a busy Walmart store packed with families shopping for the new school year in the Texas border city of El Paso, sending panicked shoppers fleeing.Texas’s governor, Greg Abbott, said 20 people had been killed, and more than two dozen more were injured. Mexico’s President Manuel López Obra
  
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• Trump rhetoric freshly condemned after mass shootings

  04-08-2019 16:01 via news.yahoo.com
  2020 candidates and other politicians battle over the president's words about minorities, while the Justice Department pursues the El Paso killings as domestic terrorism.
  
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• PHOTOS: Ohio mass shooting leaves 10 dead including the gunman

  04-08-2019 15:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A gunman wearing body armor and carrying extra magazines opened fire in a popular nightlife area of Dayton, Ohio, killing nine and injuring dozens, authorities say, in the second U.S. mass shooting in less than 24 hours.
  
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• El Paso congresswoman: Target not randomly chosen

  04-08-2019 15:52 via news.yahoo.com
  "The fact that this store was targeted I believe was not coincidental,“ Rep. Veronica Escobar said.
  
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