CNN – When Jerome Bridges heard gunshots in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York on Saturday, he ran to lead some of his colleagues and customers to safety in the store’s break room and barricaded them inside with a heavy desk. “That’s all you heard was shooting, constantly shooting – shooting and shooting and shooting,” … Read more
CNN – Before an 18-year-old white man allegedly carried out a racist mass shooting in a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday, he revealed his months-long plan to some people on social media about 30 minutes before opening fire. Payton S. Gendron – suspected of killing 10 people and injuring three others – had set up a … Read more
CNN – Posts on social media of the 18-year-old white man suspected of shooting and killing 10 people in a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday reveal that he had been planning his attack for several months. The alleged gunman Payton S. Gendron of Conklin, New York, wrote that he chose a particular zip code in Buffalo … Read more
CNN – A suspect in a deadly shooting at a church in Laguna Woods, California, was likely politically motivated, investigators said. “It is believed that the suspect involved was outraged by political tensions between China and Taiwan,” Orange County Sheriff Donald Barnes said at a news conference Monday. The suspect, David Chou, 68, of Las … Read more
CNN – [Breaking news update at 7:56 a.m. ET] The alleged suspect in the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, had plans to “continue his madness” after opening fire in a supermarket and killing 10 people, City Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said Monday. “There was evidence that it was revealed that he had plans, had … Read more
CNN – A mass shooting in a supermarket in a black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday was a racist hate crime and will be prosecuted as such, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said Sunday. “The evidence we have revealed so far does not go unnoticed that this is an absolutely racist hate crime. … Read more
CNN – California is facing a crisis. Not only are its reservoirs already at critically low levels due to persistent drought, residents and businesses across the state are also using more water now than they have done for seven years, despite Governor Gavin Newsom’s efforts to encourage the exact opposite . Newsom has begged residents … Read more
CNN – It is only 46 hectares of rocks and grass without fresh water (nor any snakes), but Snake Island in the Black Sea has acquired a totemic significance in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. The island – known as Zmiinyi Ostriv in Ukrainian – is located about 30 miles (48 kilometers) off the … Read more
CNN – A brush fire driven by California’s prolonged drought threatens homes on the coast of Orange County for a third day Friday, as hundreds south of Los Angeles have been forced to evacuate and the fire remains only 15% under control. Concerns are mounting that embers may spread in the coming days, as California … Read more
CNN – A fast-moving brush fire destroyed at least 20 homes and forced the evacuation of nearly a thousand homes in Orange County, California, on Wednesday in a lasting sign of the new normal for the region. The coastal fire started on Wednesday afternoon around kl. 14.45 in Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park and … Read more