After training, U.S. militias gird for trouble as presidential election nears
Down a Georgia country road, camouflaged members of the Three Percent Security Force have mobilized for rifle practice, hand-to-hand combat training — and an impromptu campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. "How many people are voting for Trump? Ooh-rah!" asks Chris Hill, a ...
Reports of gunshots briefly spur a lockdown at Sasebo naval base in Nagasaki Prefecture but the U.S. Navy finds no evidence of gunfire or casualties.
Terror, terror on the wall, who's the biggest of all?
The word "terrorist" can and should be applied to a wider range of killers.
As Ukraine conflict simmers, country becomes a trove for black-market arms trade
On Feb. 12 last year, the same day that a cease-fire ended the worst of the fighting in eastern Ukraine between rebels and government forces, a former rebel fighter seized a chance to turn his inside knowledge of the conflict into hard cash. He traveled ...
Spy agencies struggle to spot threats from lone, mentally ill attackers
Recent attacks on civilians in the U.S. and Europe have exposed a gap in the intelligence community's efforts to track suspected extremists and prevent mass killings, half a dozen American, British and French counterterrorism officials said. The attacks have a common theme of being carried ...
Munich gunman was fixated on mass killing, had no Islamist ties
A German-Iranian teenager who shot dead nine people in Munich was a deranged lone gunman obsessed with mass killings who drew no inspiration from Islamist militancy, police said on Saturday. The 18-year-old, born and raised locally, opened fire near a busy shopping mall on Friday ...
German-Iranian man, 18, kills nine in Munich shooting rampage
An 18-year-old German-Iranian who apparently acted alone opened fire near a busy shopping mall in Munich on Friday evening, killing at least nine people in the third attack on civilians in Western Europe in eight days. The pistol-wielding attacker, identified by Munich Police Chief Hubertus ...
In some U.S. cities, police push back against 'open-carry' gun laws
Tents, ladders, coolers, canned goods, tennis balls and bicycle locks are banned in the area surrounding the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. But guns are fine. When Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Sunday rejected the Cleveland police union's request to ban the open carrying of firearms ...
Feeling despair from a distance as black lives taken
Are Americans of color safer in Japan than in the U.S.? Probably, but that doesn't shield us from feeling pain and despair about injustices in the States.
Black boys, men ponder avoiding becoming the next one killed
AP Javon Grant has come up with a plan for what to do should he cross paths with a police officer: get as far away as possible. "People are getting shot every day," says Javon, 14. "I'll walk on the other side of the street. I ...
Violence again convulses 2016 election campaign, testing Trump, Clinton
In the hours after a gunman shot 12 police officers in Dallas, killing five, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton abruptly canceled campaign events. Their Twitter accounts largely went quiet. The shootings marked yet another convulsive event in the 2016 ...
U.S. Army veteran uses shooting skills to free eagle entangled by rope in Minnesota
A U.S. Army veteran used his sharp-shooting skills to free a bald eagle trapped in a Minnesota tree ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, his wife said. Jackie Gervais Galvin of Rush City, Minnesota, said on her Facebook page that the eagle had become ...
