By Billy Stockwell, Lou Robinson, CNN (CNN) — Australian police said emergency services were called to Campbell Parade – the road that runs along Sydney’s Bondi Beach, where Sunday’s deadly mass shooting occurred – just before 7 p.m. local time, to reports of gunshots. Less than two hours before, more than 1,000 people had started
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By Lauren del Valle, CNN Dedham, Massachusetts (CNN) — The jury considering Brian Walshe’s fate in his murder trial is expected to resume deliberations in Dedham, Massachusetts, Monday morning. The panel of six men and six women deliberated for nearly four hours on Friday. When the judge asked if they wanted to stay late to
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN Two cities, on opposite sides of the world, are united in mourning after deadly mass shootings over the weekend. In both cases, the attacks have left communities shattered while renewing contentious debates over gun control. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN Two cities, on opposite sides of the world, are united in mourning after deadly mass shootings over the weekend. In both cases, the attacks have left communities shattered while renewing contentious debates over gun control. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with
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CNN By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — For nine hours, students at Brown University crouched under desks and behind locked door, making panicked phone calls and sending “I love you” texts that felt dangerously close to goodbyes. An active shooter was on campus — and police were still searching for a suspect. Late Saturday night
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — For nine hours, students at Brown University crouched under desks and behind locked door, making panicked phone calls and sending “I love you” texts that felt dangerously close to goodbyes. An active shooter was on campus — and police were still searching for a suspect. Late Saturday night into
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CNN By Jessie Yeung, Kristie Lu Stout, Karina Tsui, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty on two national security charges and a lesser sedition charge, in a landmark two-year trial widely viewed as a measure of the city’s shrinking freedoms under Beijing’s rule. Self-made billionaire
Continue Reading By Toni Odejimi, CNN (CNN) — The Powerball jackpot rose to an estimated $1.1 billion after there were no winners in Saturday’s night drawing. It’s the second-largest jackpot this year and the 12th to cross the $1 billion threshold in the past five years. The winning numbers were 1, 28, 31, 57 and 58 with
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By Laura Sharman, Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — A bystander who wrestled a gun from one of the alleged attackers during a mass shooting at Bondi Beach has been identified as Ahmed al Ahmed, whose refugee parents had just arrived from Syria, according to Australian officials and media. Ahmed, a 43-year-old father to two girls,
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, Sandi Sidhu, CNN (CNN) — A 10-year-old girl, a Holocaust survivor and a young French national were among at least 15 people killed when two gunmen opened fire on families celebrating the first night of Hanukkah at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach on Sunday, an attack that police have declared a terrorist incident.
Continue Reading By Caitlin Danaher, Nick Paton Walsh, CNN (CNN) — The new head of Britain’s foreign intelligence service MI6 will warn the nation that the “front line is everywhere” in her first public speech on Monday, with the UK facing a growing threat from Russia. Blaise Metreweli became the first female chief of the Secret Intelligence
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Australia already has some of the world’s toughest gun laws, but the Bondi mass shooting could lead to even tougher rules as the realization spreads that they aren’t strong enough to prevent bloodshed. Restrictions were tightened almost 30 years ago after a lone gunman armed with semiautomatic
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, Kristie Lu Stout, Karina Tsui, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty on two national security charges and a lesser sedition charge, in a landmark two-year trial widely viewed as a measure of the city’s shrinking freedoms under Beijing’s rule. Self-made billionaire Lai,
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CNN By Curt Devine, John Miller, Evan Perez, Allison Gordon, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN (CNN) — The person of interest detained in connection with the Brown University shooting, identified by law enforcement sources as Benjamin Erickson, is a decorated soldier who had served in a position at Arlington National Cemetery, according to his LinkedIn profile. Erickson,
Continue Reading By Curt Devine, John Miller, Evan Perez, Allison Gordon, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN (CNN) — Saying the “evidence now points in a different direction,” law enforcement officials late Sunday released a man they had detained in connection with the Brown University shooting, which left two dead and nine injured. “This is what these investigations look like,”
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By Michelle Watson, Julia Vargas Jones, Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — Members of the Jewish community across the world woke up Sunday to yet another fatal attack — something that has become all too common for those of the faith. The attack Sunday on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, which has been declared a terrorist incident, has
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CNN By John Miller, Maureen Chowdhury, Evan Perez, Lauren Mascarenhas, Zoe Sottile and CNN Staff PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND (CNN) – The person of interest detained in connection with Saturday’s deadly shooting at Brown University has been identified as 24-year-old Benjamin Erickson of Wisconsin, multiple law enforcement sources tell CNN. Authorities have not publicly identified the
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CNN By Hilary Whiteman, Angus Watson, CNN Sydney, Australia (CNN) — At least 11 people were killed in a terror attack on Sunday targeting the Jewish community celebrating the first night of Hannukah at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach. Around 1,000 people had gathered on a grassy area at Archer Park when at least two gunman
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By John Miller, Maureen Chowdhury, Evan Perez, Lauren Mascarenhas, Zoe Sottile and CNN Staff PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND (CNN) – The person of interest detained in connection with Saturday’s deadly shooting at Brown University has been identified as 24-year-old Benjamin Erickson of Wisconsin, multiple law enforcement sources tell CNN. Authorities have not publicly identified the person
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, Angus Watson, Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Sydney, Australia (CNN) — At least 15 people were killed in a terror attack on Sunday targeting the Jewish community celebrating the first night of Hannukah at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach. Around 1,000 people had gathered on a grassy area at Archer Park when at least two
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