Mass shootings seldom shift partisan policies despite public outcry

Sorrow and sympathy are widespread. But what comes next from policymakers is likely to depend on which political party is in charge of a state.

Nashville school shooter identified as 28-year-old woman

Authorities say they believe the 28-year-old female shooter who killed three children and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday was a former student.

Nashville Covenant shooting highlights security at private schools

Around the U.S., private schools generally do not face as many requirements as public schools for developing security plans.

Nashville school shooting bodycam video shows officers down suspect within minutes

The dramatic, six-minute video shows police confronting and opening fire on the assailant. It's a chilling look at the latest school shooting to roil the nation.

Nashville school shooting: Officers who took out suspected Covenant shooter identified

Officer Rex Englebert and Officer Michael Collazo fired at the 28-year-old suspect "and fatally wounded her," Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said.

Nashville school shooting: Pastor's daughter among victims

Hallie Scruggs was the daughter of Chad Scruggs, the lead pastor at the Covenant Presbyterian Church, according to a statement released by a Presbyterian Church in Dallas.

Nashville school shooting: Suspect who killed 6 drew maps, surveilled campus, police say

The suspect in a Nashville school shooting on Monday had drawn a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and conducted surveillance before killing three students and three adults.

Nashville school shooting victims identified

The six victims were killed when a 28-year-old female wielding two “assault-style" rifles and a pistol opened fire Monday at The Covenant School in Nashville.

Biden signs executive order to strengthen gun background checks

Tuesday's executive order does not change U.S. government policy. Instead, it directs federal agencies to ensure compliance with existing laws and procedures.

Keith Melvin Moses: What we know about suspect in deadly Pine Hills shooting

A 19-year-old man is expected to face murder charges in the shooting deaths of an Orlando TV journalist, a 9-year-old girl, and a woman in a series of shootings Wednesday in Pine Hills, Florida that also injured a second journalist, and the girl's mother.

US mass killings linked to extremism spiked over last decade, report says

“It is not an exaggeration to say that we live in an age of extremist mass killings,” the report by the Anti-Defamation League says.

Gunman kills 6 including ex-wife in northern Mississippi, sheriff says

A Mississippi sheriff says a lone gunman man killed six people including his ex-wife and stepfather at multiple locations in a small, rural town near the Tennessee state line.

El Paso mall shooting: 1 dead, three injured

Police in El Paso, Texas, say one person was killed and three other people were wounded in a shooting Wednesday in a shopping mall.

Buffalo mass shooter sentenced to life in prison during emotional hearing

The sentencing hearing for Payton Gendron was disrupted briefly when he was charged by a man in the audience, who was quickly restrained.

Judge could bar comments to media after Half Moon Bay shooting

A judge on Friday barred attorneys from talking to the press about the criminal case of a farmworker accused of killing seven people last month in back-to-back shootings at two Northern California mushroom farms.