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After this morning’s mass shooting at a church in rural Texas left at least 26 people dead, many parents are wrestling with how to explain the seemingly inexplicable act of violence to their children. The shooting, with victims’ ages ranging from 5 to 72, comes just over a month after […]

Prayers, heartbreak and calls for gun control were among the responses Sunday to America’s latest mass shooting, a massacre in a rural Texas church that killed at least 26 people and injured about 20 others. A neighboring church just two miles down the road from the First Baptist Church of […]

Sunday morning’s shooting in a rural Texas church is among the deadliest gun massacres in modern U.S. history. At least 26 people were killed at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, about 40 miles southeast of San Antonio. That ties it with the Sandy Hook School shooting as the […]

The suspected shooter who opened fire in a rural Texas church has been identifed as Devin Kelley, a 26-year-old white male, federal and state law enforcement sources told ABC News. Kelley is from New Braunfels, Texas. The investigation into his background is unfolding. The suspect’s Facebook profile appeared to show […]

Kentucky’s Republican House speaker resigned his leadership position Sunday after acknowledging he settled sexual harassment claims from one of his staffers last month. Jeff Hoover denied sexually harassing the staff member, but said he sent inappropriate text messages that were consensual. Hoover’s wife and two of his three daughters were […]

Seven days before a deadly shooting took place in a Texas church, its pastor gave a sermon encouraging his congregation to turn to God when life becomes difficult. Pastor Frank Pomeroy was in Oklahoma when a shooter opened fire today inside his church, First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs. His […]

At least 27 people were killed and 27 injured in a mass shooting at a Texas church this morning, a law enforcement official told ABC News. The alleged shooter, who has not been identified, is dead, and it appears there is no longer an active threat at the First Baptist […]

The Coast Guard has rescued four people who were on a sinking boat off the Florida coast. The News-Press of Fort Myers reports that passengers sent out a mayday call Saturday night, saying their 21-foot boat was taking on water six miles off Sanibel Island in the Gulf of Mexico. […]

The bodies of 26 female migrants who apparently drowned have arrived at the Italian port of Salerno as rescues intensify on the Mediterranean Sea, the U.N. refugee agency said. The bodies were transferred to the Italian mainland aboard a Spanish naval ship carrying another 400 migrants rescued during four operations […]

Former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile said she found “no evidence” that the 2016 Democratic primary for the presidential nomination was rigged. Asked by ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” Sunday if she agrees with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., that the Democratic nomination process was “rigged” […]