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Kim Kardashian applauded New Zealand’s lawmakers for proposing to change the country’s gun laws following the mosque shootings that left at least 49 people dead. (AP) Reality television star Kim Kardashian applauded New Zealand after the country’s leaders announced gun laws would change in wake of Friday’s mosque shootings that left at least 49 people dead. Kardashian tweeted Saturday, “Just 24 hours after the Christchurch shooting New Zealand bans semiautomatic guns!…

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The police on Saturday were questioning a Staten Island man in connection with the fatal shooting of the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family, a law enforcement official said. Several officials said preliminary information suggested that the killing was not related to organized crime but one cautioned that the inquiry was still in its early stages. The unidentified man, 24, had not been charged, the Police Department said in…

Two Stanford University students on Wednesday filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Stanford, USC, UCLA, the University of San Diego, the University of Texas at Austin, Wake Forest University, Yale University and Georgetown University.

CHARLESTON, S.C.—Sen. Bernie Sanders returned this week to South Carolina, a state that spurned him during his 2016 presidential bid, and tried again to connect with black voters—a crucial bloc in this state’s first-in-the-South Democratic primary. One indication of the task ahead for Mr. Sanders, whose campaign two years ago lost momentum in areas where the Democratic base was largely made up of nonwhite voters: The crowds at a pair…

Christchurch, New Zealand – Suspected mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant made his first appearance in New Zealand court on Saturday. The Australian national is accused of killing dozens of people in a shooting rampage fueled by white nationalism and anti-immigrant ideology. Forty-nine people died in the attack, which was New Zealand’s deadliest shooting since 1990. Dozens of other victims — ranging from two years old to their sixties — are hospitalized….

CLOSE President Donald Trump visits a Boeing facility in South Carolina, praises company for its aircraft innovations and being an example for keeping jobs in the U.S. (Feb. 17) AP WASHINGTON –As lawmakers begin to scrutinize Boeing’s grounded 737 Max 8, they will be probing one of the nation’s most powerful corporate political players, backed with a multi-million-dollar lobbying budget and a direct line to the White House. Chicago-based Boeing, the second-largest U.S. government…

On Saturday morning, his hands shaking, he showed reporters a photo on his phone of his father and his daughter. “Dad was the leader of the Afghan community and welcomed everyone,” he said. He had gone to the courthouse where the accused gunman would appear. “Just want to see his face,” he said. Members of Bangladesh’s national cricket team, who were in Christchurch for a match, were also saved by…

After at least 49 people were shot and killed at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday, Mr. Anning said in a statement widely shared on Twitter, “The real cause of bloodshed on New Zealand streets today is the immigration program which allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand in the first place.” [Read our latest updates on the New Zealand shooting.] His remarks drew condemnation across the…

Nebraska is grappling with the worst flooding the state has seen in half a century, according to the state’s governor, as severe weather and heavy rain slammed the Midwest on Friday. On Friday, Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts called the flooding “historic,” adding that he would be surveying the extent of the damage. “Nebraska has experienced historic flooding and extreme weather in nearly every region of the state,” Ricketts tweeted. The…

This frame from video that was live-streamed Friday shows a gunman in a car before the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand. (AP) Steve Hendrix Michael E. Miller March 15 at 8:28 PM The recording blinked to life shortly after 1:30 p.m. Friday to reveal the ordinary gray interior of a Subaru Outback. The overcast skies of the late New Zealand summer filtered through the windshield, casting pale light on…

The three-engine McDonnell Douglas DC-10 entered service in 1971 as a smaller rival to the Boeing 747 jumbo jet. But from the beginning, the DC-10 was plagued by problems. In 1972, American Airlines Flight 96, a nearly brand-new DC-10, had to make an emergency landing in Detroit after losing cabin pressure because the plane’s cargo door blew off mid-flight. A few passengers and crew were injured, but no one was…

The Australian suspect arrested after dozens of worshippers were gunned down in two mosques appeared unrepentant in court in New Zealand on Saturday, staring down media members with a smirk on his face. Brenton Tarrant, 28, appeared in a Christchurch District Court and was charged with murder. He was remanded without a plea until his next appearance in the South Island city’s High Court on April 5. Handcuffed,…

Friday’s slaughter in two New Zealand mosques played out as a dystopian reality show delivered by some of America’s biggest technology companies. YouTube, Facebook, Reddit and Twitter all had roles in publicizing the violence and, by extension, the hate-filled ideology behind it. These companies – some of the richest, most technologically advanced in the world – failed to rapidly quell the spread of troubling content as it metastasized across platforms,…

<!– –> VISIT CNBC.COM Success Money Work Life Video The Beginner’s Guide to Investing The Beginner’s Guide to Investing 6 Hours AgoCNBC.com Shares of aircraft-manufacturing company Boeing took a hit early this week, losing $26.6 billion in market value Monday and Tuesday, following a deadly crash of one of its 737 Max 8 airplanes in Ethiopia. That model has since been grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration, as well as…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The suspected New Zealand shooter carefully modeled his attack for an internet age. He live-streamed the massacre, shouted out a popular meme slogan and published a long, rambling manifesto replete with inside jokes geared for those steeped in underground internet culture. The gunman, who carried out an attack on at least one of two mosques targeted Friday in Christchurch, posted the manifesto online using the name…

“Bernie Sanders is the most pro-union candidate in the field, he’ll be the most pro-union president in the White House,” Sanders’ campaign manager Faiz Shakir said in a statement. | Nam Y. Huh/AP Photo 2020 Elections By BRENT D. GRIFFITHS 03/15/2019 07:02 PM EDT Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign announced Friday it will be the first major presidential campaign to have a unionized workforce, as party activists push Democratic candidates…

Standard white supremacist and far-right nationalist tropes, like fears of a “white genocide,” are sprinkled throughout the statement. There are also elements of a self-flattering reach for larger meaning: references to centuries-ago battles between Christians and Muslims are scrawled on his guns, and on the video he refers to his slaughter of unarmed people as “the firefight.” But the potential clues in the statement appeared to be as much an…

Video Trump issues the first veto of his presidency President Trump on Friday used the first veto of his administration to reject a bipartisan resolution that sought to block his declaration of a national emergency at the border, a move almost certain to kill the measure. “Today I am vetoing this resolution,” Trump, surrounded by law enforcement officials and families of those killed by illegal immigrants, said in the Oval Office….