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A rifle-wielding attacker opened fire on Republican lawmakers as they practiced for a charity baseball game Wednesday, critically wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and hitting aides and Capitol police as congressmen and others dove for cover. The assailant, who had nursed grievances against President Donald Trump and the GOP, fought a running gun battle with police before he, too, was shot and later died.
CHICAGO: Democrats face years of work, focussing on "kitchen table" economic issues over several election cycles, if they want to regain ground lost to Republicans, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Wednesday. The Democratic mayor of the nation's third largest city also said Republican President Donald Trump's legal and political troubles give Democrats a chance to regain a large slice of the more than 1,000 seats Democrats have lost in Congress and state legislatures since 2008.
The shooting of a Republican lawmaker known for his support for gun rights sparked alarm among GOP colleagues, with some calling for lawmakers to carry weapons and others saying the attack doesn't justify tighter firearms restrictions. Representative Steve Scalise, 51, was in critical condition Wednesday after surgery to treat a gunshot wound to the hip.
The search for two Georgia inmates accused of killing two guards and escaping from a prison bus is expanding as it stretches into a third day. As deliberations in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial continue into a fourth day, nerves are frayed, patience is shot and no one is certain when it will all end.
Officials said Hodgkinson has been identified as the man who opened fire on Republican lawm... . Law enforcement talk while investigating outside the home of James T. Hodgkinson on Wednesday, June 14, 2017, in Belleville, Ill.
FBI agents investigate a playground near the baseball field in Alexandria, Va., Thursday, June 15, 2017, the day after House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of La. was shot during a congressional baseball practice at the park.
A UPS employee opened fire at a San Francisco package delivery facility, killing three employees and then himself as officers closed in, police and the company said. Two other people were wounded.
Washington, June 15, 2017: A rifle-toting US man opened fire Wednesday at about two dozen Republican lawmakers and staff holding a baseball practice ahead of a charity game, shooting a top Republican congressman and three others in a hail of bullets. The shooter -- identified as 66-year-old James Hodgkinson, an apparent supporter of former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders angry over President Donald Trump's election -- later died of his injuries in a shootout with police.
NBC announced Wednesday that they would be postponing the airing of an episode of "The Carmichael Show" Wednesday night following the shooting in Alexandria, Virginia, according to Deadline. The episode that was to run was titled "Shoot-Up-Able" and focused around a shooting at a mall.
Texas Republican Rep. Roger Williams, a player on his party's congressional baseball team, agreed with his colleagues saying that members having firearms would have been better for them when a gunman shot at the team Wednesday morning. Michigan Republican Rep. Mike Bishop, another ball player at the field, said earlier Wednesday that he and his colleagues were "sitting ducks" on the field and Williams agreed telling The Daily Caller at a press conference late Wednesday afternoon: "Well it took the second shot for me to understand what was happening here.
The political climate on social media continues to further divide a country already at odds after last year's presidential election. The man who shot Congressman Steve Scalise and three others Wednesday at a ballpark in Virginia had an extensive history of posting his frustrations on social media before resorting to violence.
The gunman who shot a top GOP congressman and several other people Wednesday at a baseball practice outside the nation's capital had a long history of lashing out at Republicans and recently frightened a neighbor by firing a rifle into a field behind his Illinois home. James T. Hodgkinson, 66, wounded House Rep. Steve Scalise before he was fatally shot by police who had been guarding the House majority whip.
A rifle-wielding attacker opened fire on Republican lawmakers as they practiced for a charity baseball game Wednesday, critically wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and hitting aides and Capitol police as congressmen and others dove for cover. The assailant, who had nursed grievances against President Donald Trump and the GOP, fought a running gun battle with police before he, too, was shot and later died.
Sources say that President Donald Trump is now calling the House-passed health care bill 'mean' after he helped rescue it. San Francisco police confirm a shooting at a sprawling UPS warehouse and customer service center, but no information on injuries has been released.
U.S. Representative Mike Bost, the Republican representing Illinois' 12th District, said the Belleville man who opened fire at the congressional baseball practice Wednesday morning contacted his office 10 times beginning in June 2016. According to a statement from Bost, James Hodgkinson began contacting the office in June of 2016 to "express his opposition to the Republican agenda in Congress."
Alexandria Police Chief Michael Brown briefs the press on the on-going investigation of the shooting at the GOP baseball practice early this morning in Alexandria, Va. . A witness recounts the scene where Majority Whip Leader Rep. Steve Scalise, congressional staff and members of the Capitol Police were shot.
The attorney general told the Senate Intelligence Committee 16 times in his blockbuster hearing that he couldn't "recall" a particular detail. That was in addition to eight instances in which he did not "know" the answer to a question posed by a member of the panel, five instances in which he did not "believe," four times he did not "think," and twice each that he did not "have" or "remember" what the senator in question was looking for.