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Nearly all of the victims of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., early Sunday have been identified, the city's mayor, Buddy Dyer, announced Monday. Dyer said that 48 of the 49 victims in the shooting had been identified by authorities.
The mass shooting that erupted at a gay nightclub in Orlando and left 50 people dead is renewing arguments about who should be able to own high-powered weapons in the US. The suspected gunman, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, had an AR-15 assault rifle and a handgun during the attack at Pulse early Sunday morning.
The man suspected of killing 50 people and wounding 53 in a mass shooting Sunday in Florida was employed by G4S Plc, a British security firm whose clients in more than 100 countries include the U.S. government. Omar Mateen, 29, is a U.S. citizen who declared allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group in the hours before the largest mass shooting in the nation's history at a gay nightclub in Orlando.
Officials say Omar Mateen, the man suspected of the deadliest shooting spree in U.S. history, purchased the guns used in the attack legally within the past week. Rough Cut .
A gunman opened fire at a gay night club in Orlando, Florida, early Sunday, killing 50 people and wounding 53 more before he was killed in a shootout with SWAT team members. Authorities say he may have had a connection with radical Islamic terrorism, and his father said he became angry a couple of months ago when he saw two gay men kissing.
After a man was arrested with a small arsenal in his car, authorities in Los Angeles are investigating whether he was targeting the LGBT community at the LA Pride festival, a day after the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The man, who is from Indiana, was arrested around 5 a.m. after police got a call about a prowler, Los Angeles Interim Undersheriff Neal Tyler said.
Orlando: A hostage-taking that left about 20 dead and 42 wounded at a Florida gay nightclub early Sunday is being investigated as a terrorist act, officials said. "Any time we have potentially dozens of victims in our communities, that I think we can qualify that as a terrorist activity.
Authorities have identified human remains found behind an abandoned Rhode Island mill as those of a Boston nightclub manager whose disappearance 23 years ago was suspected as a murder, and the FBI will now pursue a case that had gone cold. Steven DiSarro, whose remains were unearthed in Providence in March, was believed by law enforcement at the time of his disappearance to be a victim of a mob murder even though his body was not found.
Human remains found behind a mill building in March have been identified as those of a Boston nightclub owner and presumed mob victim last seen alive more than 20 years ago. A DNA analysis determined the remains were of Westwood, Massachusetts, resident Steven A. DiSarro, who disappeared in 1993, the FBI said.
Janet Blackmon Morgan/The Sun News via AP Dawn Drexel, mother of Britanee Drexel, listens during a news conference in McClellanville on Wednesday. Authorities announced that the case of the disappearance of her daughter Brittanee Drexel of Rochester, New York, is now being investigated as a homicide and the FBI is offering a reward of $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.
Officers with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, state and local agencies will hold a press conference at 1 p.m. to discuss developments in the case of Brittanee Drexel, who disappeared from Myrtle Beach in 2009. David Thomas, special agent in charge with the FBI, will hold the news conference in McClellanville to talk about the case and the FBI's involvement in the ongoing investigation.
The scam had all the trappings of a major con. Working from a dingy office building just a short drive from the glittering Mediterranean Sea, eight immigrants from Europe formed an unlikely team that allegedly conspired to dupe major multinational companies out of millions of dollars.
The director of the FBI says the bureau is continuing to focus on recruitment efforts by the Islamic State nationwide - not just in Minnesota, where three men were convicted last week. Director James Comey says there are close to 1,000 open cases around the country related to the Islamic State group.
Bob Levinson is a father of seven, a former FBI agent of 23 years turned private investigator, and now the longest-held American captive in history. How that came to be is the cloak-and-dagger story pieced together by journalist Barry Meier, author of the just-published " Missing Man: the American Spy who Vanished ."
Hillary Clinton 's "major foreign policy address" on Thursday turned out to be nothing more than another campaign stop and an opportunity to bash her presumptive presidential opponent. The word "presumptive" means Clinton must wait for the findings of the FBI criminal investigation.
On May 17, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Justice Against Supporters of Terrorism Act , a bill that would allow 9/11 victims and their families to sue Saudi Arabia Lawyers for the Florida Bulldog have asked a federal judge to award substantial attorney fees for years of efforts to obtain secret reports about the FBI's The papers filed Tuesday seek a court hearing and also show how the Fort Lauderdale Freedom of Information case ties into a better-known push to declassify 28 pages that were cut out of a 2002 report by Congress' Joint Inquiry into the terrorist attacks. Those censored pages involved "specific sources of foreign support" for the hijackers while they were in the United States.
This may be the very first time in U.S. presidential election history when both of our major party candidates were in trouble with the law. Both of them insist they've done nothing wrong.
Security reforms adopted by the U.S. Congress last year have enabled Yahoo to publicly disclose three National Security Letters that it has received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation . Prior to passage of the USA Freedom Act last June, recipients of NSL requests for user data were often prohibited from even publicly acknowledging they had received such orders.