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After a weekend of numbing carnage — more than 30 dead and more than 50 injured in mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, — President Trump stepped forward Monday morning with a tweet calling for a bilateral embrace of “strong background checks,” whatever that means, and “perhaps marrying this legislation with desperately needed immigration reform.” So in the space of a single tweet the president called for laughably…

The death toll from a mass shooting at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart, increased to 22 after two more victims died in the hospital, police said. David Shimp, chief executive officer at Del Sol Medical Center in El Paso, said one patient died late Sunday night and another Monday morning. The victims were among more than two dozen people wounded in the massacre that erupted about 10:39 a.m. local time…

Police still don’t know whether the gunman who murdered nine people and wounded dozens more in Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend targeted his sister in the shooting spree, authorities said Monday. A visibly frustrated Dayton Police Department Chief Richard Biehl said, even 34 hours after Connor Betts started firing, that detectives are not sure if 22-year-old Megan Betts was an intended victim. “It’s a question I’ve asked more than once,”…

Video How will police be investigating both the El Paso and Dayton shootings? Former NYPD officer Dr. Darrin Porcher reacts to the deadly shootings in Ohio and Texas. The Democratic National Committee is fundraising off the weekend’s tragic mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, seeking donations for the fight to “prevent gun violence and save lives.” The DNC sent an email to supporters on Monday, signed by former Rep….

People hold up their phones in lieu of candles at an interfaith vigil for victims of the mass shooting in El Paso on Saturday that left at least 20 people dead. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) Drew Harwell August 5 at 1:31 PM The battle over white-supremacist and extremist content online surged into the tangled pipelines of the Web on Monday as jockeying among rival tech firms knocked the 8chan message board…

But as mourning flirted with anger, faith leaders, in sermons and public addresses, cautioned people to not let their emotions morph into the kind of fury that ultimately fueled the violence. “The attack happened because somebody wanted someone else to suffer,” the Rev. Benjamin Flores, a Roman Catholic priest and leader in the Diocese of El Paso, said after a prayer service on Sunday afternoon. “We cannot respond in the…

Heart-stopping video captures the moment hero cops shoot and kill Connor Betts during his murderous rampage in Dayton, Ohio — with him collapsing just steps from the front door of a packed bar. Surveillance footage shows dozens of joyful revelers, some hugging warmly, forced to suddenly flee for their lives as the masked 24-year-old starts firing his legally purchased AR-15-style rifle with magazines capable of holding at least 100 rounds…

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8chan, the website where the suspected El Paso gunman posted a hate-filled screed, was down on Monday. The site wasn’t available after its website security and network provider Cloudflare said it would no longer provide services for 8chan. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince wrote in a Monday blog post that 8chan had “proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths.” 8chan, the website where the suspected…

“It’s these questions that you know the answers to. I mean, connect the dots about what he’s been doing in this country. He’s not tolerating racism, he’s promoting racism. He’s not tolerating violence, he’s inciting racism and violence in this country. So you know, I just — I don’t know what kind of question that is.”  I didn’t get video, but here’s audio of the question and Beto O’Rourke’s answer….

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Before John Oliver began his regularly scheduled “dumb show” about doghouse foreclosures and turnip subsidies on Last Week Tonight, he took some time to address the shootings that have occurred in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Tex. “When it comes to gun control, I know it can feel like it everything has been said before,” he said before going down a laughable rabbit hole of explanation. “In fact, even pointing out…

Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. The founder of 8chan, an internet messaging board that is a haven for extremist content online, is calling for the site to be shut down in the wake of a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas which left 20 people dead and dozens more injured. Fredrick Brennan, a software developer who founded the site in 2013 but cut ties with it in December,…

Video Fox News Flash top headlines for August 5 Fox News Flash top headlines for August 5 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com The gunman who fatally shot nine people — including his sister — and injured more than two dozen others in Dayton, Ohio, early Sunday was reportedly suspended during his high school years for compiling a “hit list” of those he wanted to kill and a “rape…

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Annie Gowen Mark Berman Tim Craig Hannah Natanson August 4 at 9:32 PM The 21-year-old man accused of slaying 20 people in an El Paso shopping center will be treated as a domestic terrorist, authorities said Sunday, adding that they are seriously considering charging him with federal hate crimes. The suspect, Patrick Crusius, from suburban Dallas, is probably the author of a rambling, hate-filled manifesto posted on the 8chan website…

A mom of two studying to be a nurse, a graduate student learning to care for cancer survivors — and the shooter’s own sister — were among the victims of the Dayton, Ohio, massacre. Connor Betts, 24, killed nine people when he opened fire on a packed street lined with bars and restaurants around 1 a.m., including his little sister, 22-year-old Megan Betts, his youngest victim, authorities said. It is…

A controversial video of President Trump speaking at a rally in Florida in May is resurfacing on social media amid the news of two mass shootings on Saturday in Texas and Ohio. In the video, Trump is seen smiling and joking after a supporter at the rally yelled that Border Patrol should ‘shoot’ migrants at the border. The supporter’s yell was in response to Trump’s question of how to deal…

A 2-year-old victim survived a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, according to Rep. Veronica Escobar, because the child’s mother used her body as a shield. Escobar described the woman sacrificing her life on “This Week” Sunday. She was one of 20 people killed in the shooting at a Walmart. “We’ve been one of the safest communities in the nation for decades,” Escobar said. “We are a warm, loving, compassionate,…