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‘Killing rampage’ threat to California university ends in arrest

A man who posted videos of himself holding guns and smiling while describing his desire to go on a killing rampage has been arrested after threatening a staff member at a private university in Southern California that he attended, authorities said Monday.

 
Colorado man charged with murder in Denver Walmart shooting

A Colorado man was charged on Monday with six counts of first degree murder and 30 counts of attempted murder in connection with a shooting rampage at a Walmart store in the city of Thornton in which three people were killed.

Texas church shooting about mental health, not guns, Trump says

Responding to a U.S. mass shooting for the second time in six weeks, President Donald Trump said Monday that it wasn’t “a guns situation” that was behind the slayings of more than two dozen worshippers at a Texas church a day earlier.

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Texas church shooter chased down by 2 men in truck

Johnnie Langendorff says he was driving to Sutherland Springs to pick up his girlfriend when a barefooted man who’d been exchanging gunfire with the suspect in a deadly Texas church shooting jumped in his truck.

Harvard to honor Elton John’s work to fight HIV, AIDS

Elton John is being honored at Harvard University for his philanthropic efforts to fight HIV and AIDS. The 70-year-old singer will be awarded the Harvard Foundation’s Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award in a ceremony Monday afternoon.

Texas church gunman sent hostile text messages before attack

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the man who opened fire on a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs had mental health problems, violent tendencies and a connection to the community “that would come to light” over the coming days.