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Suspect arrested after shooting in eastern Germany kills 2

By Geir Moulson, Jens Meyer, Associated Press

The attack took place near both a synagogue and a kebab shop, local media and a witness said.

2 dead, police officer wounded in Mississippi Walmart shooting

By Adrian Sainz, Associated Press

The gunman, who killed two Walmart employees in Southaven, Mississippi, was shot by a police officer and was hospitalized in unknown condition.

Principals from schools with shootings form support group

By Kantele Franko, Associated Press

There's a new network of current and former principals who hope to offer support to other school leaders in the aftermath of violence.

Dutch prosecutors consider terror motive in tram shooting

By Aleksandar Furtula, Mike Corder, Associated Press

Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday they are taking very seriously the possibility that the deadly shooting on a tram in the central city of Utrecht was an act of terror.

What we know about the New Zealand mosque shootings

By Gretchen Frazee

At least 49 people have been killed and dozens wounded in an apparent racist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Suspected Strasbourg gunman had criminal history, French police say

By Lori Hinnant, Sylvie Corbet, John Leicester, Associated Press

Police union officials identified the suspected assailant as Frenchman Cherif Chekatt, a 29-year-old with a thick police record for crimes including armed robbery and monitored as a suspected religious radical by the French intelligence services.

Trumps visit a Pittsburgh scarred by violence at synagogue

By Zeke Miller, Allen G. Breed, Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump paid solemn tribute Tuesday to each of the 11 people slain in the worst instance of anti-Semitic violence in American history. As the Trumps placed their remembrances outside the Tree of Life…

After Pittsburgh shooting and packages plot, Trump calls media ‘the true Enemy of the People’

By Catherine Lucey, Associated Press

Trump strongly condemned the Pittsburgh attack as an act of anti-Semitism, and has denounced political violence and called for unity. But just days before the midterm elections, he has continued to hold his political rallies, complete with harsh criticism of…

Pittsburgh synagogue massacre defendant appears in court

By Maryclaire Dale, Claudia Lauer, Allen G. Breed, Associated Press

The man accused in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre appeared briefly in federal court in a wheelchair and handcuffs Monday to face charges he killed 11 people in what is believed to be the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.

Manhunt in Crimea for possible accomplice in school attack

By Nataliya Vasilyeva, Associated Press

Russian authorities in Crimea were searching Thursday for a possible accomplice of the student whose shooting-and-bomb attack on his vocational school killed 20 people and wounded more than 50 others, a top official said.