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A Saudi military trainee killed three people in Florida in a shooting at a Navy base
Three people were killed and eight others injured on Friday when a trainee from the Saudi Arabian Air Force opened fire at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida.
The incident was one of two shootings at a naval base last week — at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii, a shooter believed to be a US sailor killed two Defense Department employees and injured a third before killing himself. There's no suggestion the two incidents are linked.
Officials said the Pensacola shooter was studying in the naval aviation program. The FBI is investigating, including whether the shooter acted alone or as part of a network to plan the attack that is now presumed to be terrorism.
Authorities have identified the victims in Florida as Joshua Kaleb Watson, 23, Mohammed Sameh Haitham, 19, and Cameron Scott Walters, 21. Here’s everything we know about them.
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20 feet from impeachment stardom. On today's episode of our daily impeachment podcast: Rick Perry has come up a lot in the impeachment saga. So how has he managed to stay out of the spotlight? Listen and subscribe. STAYING ON TOP OF THIS At least five people have died after a volcano erupted in New Zealand
The volcano on White Island, also known by its Maori name of Whakaari, is New Zealand’s most active cone volcano. It unexpectedly erupted on Monday afternoon.
Five people have died and at least 10 are unaccounted for after the eruption. The victims were among 23 people evacuated from the island. The remaining 18 people all had injuries of some degree, including severe burns.
White Island, which is privately owned, is a popular destination for day trips for tourists. Police had earlier said around 50 people were on the island when the volcano erupted.
Michael Schade / Twitter SNAPSHOTS Cory Booker had a scathing critique for the Democratic Party while campaigning in Iowa. Booker said he thinks the party has created a primary contest that’s “going to have the unintended consequence of excluding people of color” while benefiting the white billionaires in the race.
Everyone involved in the viral GoFundMe scam involving a homeless man giving a woman his last $20 has now pleaded guilty. People donated more than $400,000 for a feel-good story in 2017 of a man who was homeless helping a young woman who was out of gas. But it was all a con. Now everyone involved it has pleaded guilty.
Rapper Juice Wrld has died at age 21. The up-and-coming star was taken to a hospital after having a medical emergency at Chicago's Midway International Airport. Fans and fellow artists shared their grief over the loss of a young star whose career was on the rise.
The Wonder Woman 1984 trailer is here and it is already iconic. There is lasso lightning and a lot of excitement in the sequel to Wonder Woman, which is set in the Cold War. Wonder Woman has a new foe, Cheetah, who will be played by Kristen Wiig.
A DECADE OF DEVASTATION This was the decade drug overdoses killed nearly half a million Americans
It’s hard to wrap your mind around the sheer scale of damage that drug overdoses have done to the US this decade.
The overdose epidemic has overtaken both car crashes and gun violence as leading causes of deaths nationwide, and it now causes far more deaths every year than AIDS did at its peak.
US drug overdose deaths in this decade exceed the number of battle deaths the country suffered in World War I and World War II combined.
Dan Vergano looks back at the decade and what we learned from reporting on drug overdose deaths: “The ‘war on drugs’ rhetoric of the last 50 years finally ended amid all those deaths, which brought the realization that we can’t arrest away the disease of drug addiction, a change that noticeably came with a drug epidemic ravaging white, rural America.”
Pill Man, a skeleton made from Frank Huntley's oxycontin and methadone prescription bottles, is seen in front of the White House on Aug. 30. Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS The Peloton wife is in a new ad spoofing the exercise bike commercial and people love it
Remember last week, when we talked about how deeply concerned people were about the woman in a vaguely dystopian ad for the Peloton exercise bike? Well, there’s a plot twist.
After the Peloton ad went viral last week, the actor, Monica Ruiz, turned up in an ad for the Ryan Reynolds-owned gin company, Aviation Gin. In it, Ruiz downs a drink, looking like she has emerged from a rough situation. Reynolds cheekily tweeted the ad, adding “exercise bike not included.”
People are loving the clapback so much.
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