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Two Gardner electric employees, Josh Smith and Dylan Irby, recently helped with hurricane relief restoring electrical power in Orlando, Fla. Photo courtesy of the City of Gardner Two employees from the city's electric division traveled to Florida to assist in hurricane relief efforts.
LGBT supporters are fighting back against the Islamic State militant group on the Syrian battlefield after three years of persecution in which their community suffered stonings, executions from rooftops and a deadly shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida. A group of international volunteers fighting with Kurdish forces against ISIS in northern Syria have declared the first LGBT military unit created to battle the jihadi group.
Alfredo Gonzalez, Visit Florida's vice president of global meetings and trade, has turned in his resignation and will depart the agency on July 8. Gonzalez's departure leaves a hole in Visit Florida's campaign to market the state's tourism industry in lucrative markets such as the United Kingdom, Germany and the Middle East. He followed International Marketing Program Director Shari Bailey, who resigned on Saturday.
Acts of murderous political violence are not new in America. In and of themselves, they do not tell us much about the state of the country and its political culture.
The Washington Post marked the one-year anniversary of the horrific Orlando nightclub mass shooting on Monday, but something was repeatedly missing in the coverage: the name of the shooter Omar Mateen, and his ideological inspiration, the Islamic State. On Monday's front page, they promoted Sunday's "Equality March" by the gay Left: "It was at times celebratory and at others somber as participants gathered to commemorate the anniversary Monday of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history at an Orlando gay nightclub a year ago.
Two years after the White House was adorned in rainbow colors to commemorate the Supreme Court's ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, gay rights activists and lawmakers are preparing to march on Washington again, saying the current President threatens to erase those gains. Gay rights activists plan to air their concerns at the "Equality March for Unity and Pride" in Washington on Sunday as well as at 50 sister marches at cities across the country this month.
Fatal workplace shootings, like the one Monday in Orlando, Fla., are ticking upward in the United States, government statistics show. Revenge against an employer, romantic partner or co-workers often is the motive, experts say.
Church bells tolled 49 times, a giant rainbow flag hung from a county government building and the names of the victims of the Pulse nightclub attack were read aloud at various ceremonies Monday as people in Orlando and beyond remembered the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. At 2:02 a.m., survivors, victims' families, club employees and local officials were gathered for a private service at the gay club at the exact time Omar Mateen opened fire a year ago and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
Fatal workplace shootings, like the one Monday in Orlando, Florida, are ticking upward in the United States, government statistics show. Revenge against an employer, romantic partner or co-workers often is the motive, experts say.
People arrive at a staging center setup by the Orange County Sheriff's Office after a deadly shooting Monday in Orlando, Florida. A man who was fired from a Florida awning factory in April returned Monday with a gun and methodically killed several people, then took his own life, authorities said.
A look at some of the expansion plans at Orlando International Airport ... which are slated to cost more than $3 billion A look at some of the expansion plans at Orlando International Airport ... which are slated to cost more than $3 billion Sunday's paper had a good deep-dive into the shuttle problems that have plagued Orlando International Airport in recent weeks. Astounded that this this problem has happened so many times - and that it seems to have so seriously disrupted the airport when it has.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden visit a memorial to the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting, Thursday, June 16, 2016 in Orlando, Fla. Offering sympathy but no easy answers, Obama came to Orlando to try to console those mourning the deadliest shooting in modern U.S history.
The FBI has been reviewing the handling of thousands of terrorism-related tips and leads from the past three years to make sure they were properly investigated and no obvious red flags were missed, The Associated Press has learned. The review follows attacks by people who were once on the FBI's radar but who have been accused in the past 12 months of massacring innocents in an Orlando, Florida, nightclub, injuring people on the streets of New York City, and gunning down travelers in a Florida airport.
The FBI has been reviewing the handling of thousands of terrorism-related tips and leads from the past three years to make sure they were properly investigated and no obvious red flags were missed, The Associated Press has learned. The review follows attacks by people who were once on the FBI's radar but who have been accused in the past 12 months of massacring innocents in an Orlando, Florida, nightclub, injuring people on the streets of New York City, and gunning down travellers in a Florida airport.
The Florida congressional delegation is comprised of 27 members: 11 Democrats and 16 Republicans. As of Wednesday, 15 of the 27 members in the delegation are voting against the Republican health care plan pushed by House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump, center, salutes the U.S. Air Force security detail at Orlando International Airport during his arrival to visit to St. Andrew Catholic School in Orlando, Fla., Friday, March 3, 2017. PALM BEACH, Fla.
President Donald Trump greets fourth-grader Janayah Chatelier as U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos greets St. Andrew Catholic School fourth-grade teacher Jane Jones on Friday in Orlando, Florida. Looking on is Florida Gov. Rick Scott , Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and John Kirtley , a tax-credit scholarship proponent.
This week, Donald Trump declared that journalists are purposefully covering up huge numbers of terrorist attacks, preventing people from finding out that the attacks have taken place. Speaking about terrorism to a gathering of American soldiers, Trump said, "You've seen what happened in Paris and Nice.
Audio recordings of 911 calls released Tuesday, Aug. 30, by the Orange C... . Al Salman, uncle of Noor Salman, speaks to the media Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, outside a federal courthouse in Oakland, Calif.
The mainstream media is soooo dishonest , it's almost unbelievable. President-elect Donald Trump made a stop on his 'Thank You Tour' in Orlando, Florida on Friday.