Warrants released on Thursday provide the most insight to date into the world of the 20-year-old gunman, a recluse who played violent video games in a house packed with weaponry that was all too real. ...
05:05 PM, Mar 29, 2013
"Weapons of war have no place on our streets," US President Barack Obama said on February 4 at an event with law enforcement officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where gun violence among teens has declined by 40 per cent. "No law or set of laws can keep our children completely safe. But if there's even one thing we can do, if there's just one life we can save, we've got an...
02:23 PM, Feb 05, 2013
After a tragedy like the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, it's a statistic that is always trotted out. Compared to just about anywhere else with a stable, developed government - and many countries without even that - the more than 11,000 gun-related killings each year in the United States are simply off the charts. To be sure, there are nations that are worse. But others see fewer gun...
02:32 PM, Jan 27, 2013
New York has become the first US state to enact new gun control laws in the wake of the mass shooting at a Connecticut Elementary School in December. The new law imposes restrictions on assault weapons and also seeks to prevent the mentally ill from possessing guns. ...
08:23 AM, Jan 16, 2013
Relatives and neighbors of children killed in the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, one month ago launched an initiative on Monday to help curb gun violence in America. "On Friday, December 14th, I put two children on the bus and only one came home. I pray that no mother, father, grandparent or caregiver of children ever have to go through this pain," said Nelba Marquez-Greene, whose six-year-old daughter Ana...
09:52 AM, Jan 15, 2013
The United States has experienced the highest average temperatures in 2012, making it hottest year in the continents history. "The average temperature for 2012 was 55.3 F, 3.2 F above the 20th century average, and 1.0 F above 1998, the previous warmest year," the National Climate Data Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said. ...
11:15 AM, Jan 09, 2013
Former US Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a mass shooting in her Arizona district two years ago, met with Newtown officials on January 4 afternoon before heading to visit with families of the victims of last month's Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. ...
01:18 PM, Jan 05, 2013
The new Congress on Friday rushed out $9.7 billion to help pay flood insurance claims to 115,000 people and businesses afflicted by Superstorm Sandy, two days after New Jersey's governor and other Northeast Republicans upbraided Speaker John Boehner for killing a broader package for state and local governments in the storm's path. ...
04:06 AM, Jan 05, 2013
A $9.7 billion measure to pay flood insurance claims is set for a vote in Congress, boosting prospects for relief for the many home and business owners flooded out by Superstorm Sandy. If the House, as expected, approves the flood insurance proposal on January 4, the Senate plans to follow with a likely uncontested vote later in the day. ...
05:50 PM, Jan 04, 2013
The demonisation of the financial industry is not limited to the US. It's a global phenomenon. In the US, the need to bail out the banking industry was a very difficult political decision for Democrats in particular. The entire country was suffering in the recession. ...
04:10 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Nearly seven in 10 Americans support the idea of placing strong or moderate limits gun ownership following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Thursday. ...
05:48 AM, Dec 28, 2012
Adam Lanza used to slither through hallways, pressing himself against the wall while wearing the same green shirt and khaki pants every day. ...
01:27 PM, Dec 22, 2012
The small Connecticut town shattered by an act President Barack Obama called "unconscionable evil," holds on Monday the first two of 20 funerals for schoolchildren massacred in their classrooms last week. Meanwhile, schools across the country will reopen their doors to confused and scared children full of questions about why the Newtown, Connecticut, shooting happened - and whether they are safe from the very same danger. ...
12:57 PM, Dec 17, 2012
The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage was carrying an arsenal of hundreds of rounds of especially deadly ammunition - enough to kill just about every student in the school if given enough time, authorities said Sunday, raising the chilling possibility that the bloodbath could have been even worse. ...
12:03 PM, Dec 17, 2012
At the very start of their lives, the schoolchildren are remembered for their love of horses, or for the games they couldn't get enough of, or for always saying grace at dinner. The adult victims found their life's work in sheltering little ones, teaching them, caring for them, treating them as their own. ...
08:27 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band opened an all-star benefit concert for victims of Superstorm Sandy on Wednesday, in what producers promised was "the greatest line-up of legends ever assembled on a stage." The "12-12-12" concert at New York's Madison Square Garden features a who's who of rock and pop, including The Rolling Stones, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, Billy Joel, Eric Clapton, Kanye West and Bon Jovi. ...
09:02 AM, Dec 13, 2012
New York: New York City and much of the US Northeast on Thursday dug out from a snowstorm that hammered a region still struggling to recover from the devastation of superstorm Sandy. The unseasonably early winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of Connecticut and slapped the region with 50 mph winds, plunging hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses back into darkness and creating a...
01:29 AM, Nov 09, 2012
New York: The nor'easter, as promised, brought gusting winds, rain, snow and the threat of flooding. It menaced travelers with icy roads, snarled the Long Island Rail Road and knocked out power to people who had only recently gotten it back after Superstorm Sandy. But for the weary, relief is on the way. Joey Picca, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, says the unwelcome snow and high winds are...
03:50 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New York: A nor'easter blustered into New York and New Jersey on Wednesday with rain and wet snow, plunging homes right back into darkness, stopping commuter trains again and inflicting another round of misery on thousands of people still reeling from Superstorm Sandy's blow more than a week ago. Under ordinary circumstances, a storm of this sort wouldn't be a big deal, but large swaths of the landscape were still...
07:18 AM, Nov 08, 2012
New York: Richard Chan prowled around his cold, dark Staten Island home with knives and a sword to protect it from thieves, standing his ground as another East Coast storm threatened and police went through neighborhoods with loudspeakers warning people to get out. "I still have some valuables. I just can't leave it," he said Tuesday. "I just don't want to lose my stuff to some dirtbag." While city officials...
11:06 AM, Nov 07, 2012
