World
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International
6/12/2022 8:32:03 PM
A bipartisan group of US senators on Sunday proposed steps to curb gun violence following devastating mass shootings in Texas and New York, but the limited measures fall far short of the president's calls for change.
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World
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International
6/7/2022 5:58:25 PM
With protests planned for Saturday after the mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Buffalo, New York, gun control advocates hope to intensify pressure on Congress to pass laws and additional funding for research to help curb the growing violence.
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World
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International
6/6/2022 8:01:34 PM
New Yorkers under age 21 will be prohibited from buying semiautomatic rifles under a new law signed Monday by Gov. Kathy Hochul, making the state one of the first to enact a major gun control initiative following a wave of deadly mass shootings.
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World
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International
6/6/2022 10:23:48 AM
At least 10 people were killed and more than two dozen wounded in four shootings across the United States this weekend, as lawmakers struggle to respond to the country's long-running epidemic of gun violence.
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World
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International
6/4/2022 11:12:16 AM
From the Texas school massacre to a Tulsa hospital shooting and many less-reported incidents, a recent spate of gun violence across America bears out a trend police departments have long sworn by: murders go up in warmer weather.
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World
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International
6/2/2022 3:31:39 PM
After the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, psychology professor Paul Boxer and his colleagues reviewed research to see what could be learned from what they refer to as the "science of violence prevention."
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World
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International
5/30/2022 4:52:44 PM
US President Joe Biden said Monday that the ``Second Amendment was never absolute'' and that, after the Texas elementary school shooting, there may be some bipartisan support to tighten restrictions on the kind of high-powered weapons used by the gunman.
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World
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International
5/29/2022 7:33:39 PM
US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden offered comfort Sunday to a city gripped by grief and anger as they paid respects at a memorial to 19 students and two teachers slain during a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school.
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World
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International
5/27/2022 3:51:26 PM
Democrats' first attempt at responding to the back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, failed in the Senate as Republicans blocked a domestic terrorism bill that would have opened debate on difficult questions surrounding hate crimes and gun safety.
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World
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International
5/25/2022 8:07:04 PM
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer swiftly set in motion a pair of firearms background-check bills Wednesday in response to the school massacre in Texas. But the Democrat acknowledged Congress’ unyielding rejection of previous legislation to curb the national epidemic of gun violence.
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World
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International
5/25/2022 1:43:21 PM
An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children as he went from classroom to classroom at a Texas elementary school in a rampage that also left two adults dead, officials said, adding to a gruesome, yearslong series of mass killings at churches, schools and stores.
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Opinion
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4/26/2022 7:48:44 PM
The United States was occupied for 12 hours with a terrorist incident in Texas, where a British person held hostage a synagogue rabbi and three worshipers for long hours. The terrorist claimed to be the brother of Dr. Afia Siddiqui, and demanded her release in exchange for the release of the hostages. The terrorist was killed in the incident and no one was injured.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
3/7/2022 6:57:07 PM
A real bat made a surprise guest appearance at a Texas showing of ‘The Batman’ this weekend.
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Life & Style
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Style
2/9/2022 8:04:09 PM
Last December, 11 Egyptian fashion entrepreneurs attended Austin Fashion Week to take part in a boot camp in Texas at the Austin Community College Fashion Incubator.
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World
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International
1/29/2022 2:31:01 PM
When Markicia Horton graduates this spring from the Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston and takes the bar, she'll be stepping into a world where a Black woman is set to be on the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time in its 232-year history.
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World
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International
1/16/2022 9:52:06 PM
Britain's foreign minister Liz Truss on Sunday condemned a hostage-taking at a synagogue in Texas as an "act of terrorism and antisemitism".
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World
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International
1/16/2022 9:45:37 AM
All four people taken hostage in a more than 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue have been freed unharmed, police said late Saturday, and their suspected captor is dead.
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Business
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Energy
12/20/2021 12:12:01 PM
World oil prices fell by more than five percent on Monday, as energy demand fears grew over the fast-spreading Omicron coronavirus variant.
In morning deals, Brent North Sea crude tumbled 5.1 percent to $69.79 per barrel and New York's West Texas Intermediate oil lost 5.7 percent to $66.84.
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World
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International
12/10/2021 6:31:52 PM
The Supreme Court has ruled that Texas abortion providers can sue over the state's ban on most abortions, but the justices are allowing the law to remain in effect.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
11/8/2021 1:09:02 PM
Rappers Travis Scott and Drake have been sued for having "incited mayhem" after eight people were killed and dozens injured in a crush during a Texas concert, the law firm confirmed on Sunday.
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