Former President Donald J. Trump, at an event on Saturday ostensibly meant to boost his preferred candidate in Ohio’s Republican Senate primary race, gave a freewheeling speech in which he used dehumanizing language to describe immigrants, maintained a steady stream of insults and vulgarities and predicted that the United States would never have another election…
Three people were fatally shot on Saturday morning at two separate residences in Falls Township in Pennsylvania, according to the authorities, who said they tracked the gunman to a home in Trenton, N.J. The gunman, identified by the authorities as Andre Gordon, 26, drove a stolen vehicle and killed two people at a residence in…
A firefighter was killed after a house in Virginia exploded Friday night, injuring 13 other people and scattering pieces of the home across the neighborhood, officials said. Firefighters arrived at the home in Sterling, Va., a suburb of Washington around 7:40 p.m., said James Williams, the assistant chief of operations for Loudoun County Fire and…
Multiple people were shot on the Morgan State University campus in Baltimore on Tuesday night, prompting a shelter-in-place order. The Baltimore Police Department later said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the incident was no longer considered an active shooter situation while continuing to ask people to shelter in place. A…
A popular San Diego beach has long been the domain of sea lions, which for years tolerated their human onlookers — some more respectful than others. But tensions escalated this summer, when two large males charged ashore, sending a crowd of beachgoers scrambling for their clothes and stumbling over rocks to escape. A lifeguard urged…
Three people were killed by a gunman inside a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Fla., in what the mayor said was a “hate-filled crime.” The gunman died after shooting himself, Sheriff T.K. Waters of Jacksonville said at a news conference on Saturday evening. “This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people,” Sheriff Waters…
Two people were shot at Guaranteed Rate Field Stadium in Chicago during a Major League Baseball game on Friday night, officials said. The shooting occurred inside the stadium during a game between the Chicago White Sox and the Oakland Athletics, according to Tom Ahern, a spokesman for the Chicago Police Department. A 42-year-old woman sustained…
Authorities in Hawaii released a list late on Thursday naming 388 people who are still unaccounted for in the aftermath of the deadliest wildfires in America in more than a century, which killed at least 115 people. The fires devastated the coastal town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, as well as other areas…
At least nine people were wounded when gunfire erupted on Monday between two groups near a beach in Hollywood, Fla., in a shooting that sent dozens of panicked beachgoers fleeing or ducking for cover on Monday evening, officials said. Deanna Bettineschi, a spokeswoman for the Hollywood Police Department, said at a news conference on Monday…
An 18-year-old gunman opened fire on a residential street in Farmington, N.M., on Monday morning, killing three people before the police arrived and killed the suspect, the authorities said. Nine other people, including two officers, were injured. The authorities received several reports of shots fired near North Dustin Avenue and East Navajo Street just before…