Materials seized from Mar-a-Lago could be made available to justice department for ex-president’s criminal investigationThe US court of appeals for the 11th circuit appeared inclined on Tuesday to agree with the justice department to potentially curtail the special master review of documents the FBI seized from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence for potential privilege protections.The result of the hearing is consequential for Trump: should he lose, it could mark the end of the special master process on which he has relied to delay, and gain more insight into, the investigation surrounding his potential mishandling of national security information. Continue reading...

After almost half a century in public service, the US's top infectious diseases expert made his final public address at a White House briefing, at which he reflected on his career and urged Americans to get their vaccinations.In an emotional address Fauci defended his record, saying he never 'left anything on the field' and called on Americans not to politicise the government's medical advice.'When I see people in this country … not getting vaccinated for reasons that have nothing to do with public health, but because of divisiveness and ideological differences, as a physician it pains me,' he said

Rich Fierro is one of two patrons who subdued 22-year-old shooter in fatal attack on LGBTQ+ nightclubWhen army veteran Rich Fierro realized a gunman was spraying bullets inside the club where he had gathered with friends and family, instincts from his military training immediately kicked in.First he ducked to avoid any potential incoming fire, then he moved to try to disarm the shooter. Continue reading...

USA stunned England in 1950 while Senegal provided the first big upset of the 21st century tournamentsThe biggest World Cup upset up to that point in the competition’s history and one so shocking that some newspapers assumed the wire report of a 1-0 final score was a typo and so instead reported that England had won 10-0. That is a myth, apparently, but nobody could blame editors at the time for not believing the turn of events in Belo Horizonte. An England team featuring players such as Billy Wright, Tom Finney and Stan Mortensen were meant to wipe the floor with an American side made up largely of amateurs and who had arrived in Brazil having trained for only a week together. Even their own manager, Bill Jeffrey, described them as “‘sheep ready to be slaughtered” but in their second group game they performed like lions, taking the lead through a 38th-minute header from Joe Gaetjens, a Haitian-born dishwasher from New York, and holding on during a second-half onslaught from England to complete the so-called “Miracle on Grass”. Continue reading...

Multiple rail unions, including the nation’s largest, have failed to reach a labor deal with freight railroads, raising the risk of a strikeConsumers and nearly every industry in the US will be affected if freight trains grind to a halt next month.One of the biggest rail unions rejected a deal on Monday, joining three others that have failed to approve contracts over concerns about demanding schedules and the lack of paid sick time. Continue reading...

We would like to hear from people in the US about how the media should cover Donald Trump’s candidacyDonald Trump’s announcement of a third bid for the White House renewed a conversation in newsrooms about the best way to cover his candidacy.On the one hand, the campaign of a former president who commands the loyalty of a sizable portion of the American electorate is clearly newsworthy. On the other hand, even if his lies are called out, the decision to feature conspiracy theories and demagoguery prominently in news coverage can cause real damage, as media organizations learned from Trump’s previous campaigns as well as his presidency. Continue reading...

The former first daughter is no idiot. Why risk tainting her brand by associating with a loser?Just a few years ago Ivanka Trump reportedly had her heart set on being the US’s first female president. Now, however, she seems desperate to stay as far away from politics as possible. The former first daughter has made it clear that while Daddy may be running for office again, she has no intention of joining him on the campaign trail. She has already selflessly served the public once, you see, and the public didn’t sufficiently appreciate her sacrifices. Now it’s time for a little self-care. “I love my father very much,” Ivanka said in a statement following Donald Trump’s official 2024 announcement. “This time around, I am choosing to prioritise my children and the private life we are creating as a family. I do not plan to be involved in politics.” To really hammer things home she was conspicuously absent when Trump, surrounded by family, made his official announcement from Mar-a-Lago last week. Even Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner, was in attendance.Rumour has it that Trump isn’t happy his eldest daughter has decided to keep her distance. According to the New York Post, Trump spent much of Tiffany Trump’s recent wedding unsuccessfully trying to convince Ivanka, who has always been a big hit among his base, to join him for his campaign announcement – which I’m sure thrilled Tiffany, who has always seemed like the most neglected child. Ivanka, however, stood firm. Continue reading...

David Valadao wins California midterms race, only second member of lower chamber to survive voting to impeach presidentA Republican who voted to impeach Donald Trump in the House of Representatives has won re-election in California, making him only the second of the 10 to do so still in Congress.David Valadao was called the winner of his competitive race with Democrat Rudy Salas late on Monday, almost two weeks after election day. Continue reading...

The social platform’s new billionaire owner wants to rebalance information ecologies in favour of the rightWhy bother reinstating Donald Trump’s Twitter account? Twitter owner Elon Musk, having said that no such decisions would be made until a content moderation council was established, made the decision after running a quick Twitter poll. He also reactivated the accounts of Kanye West, who was dumped by advertisers after delusional antisemitic comments, and Andrew Tate, the misogynist “influencer” who was banned in 2017 for violating the terms of service.This puts already nervous advertisers, who account for about 90% of the company’s revenue, in a precarious position. The NAACP has called for big firms to halt advertising on Twitter. Many of them have already done so. The Trump decision also risks a wider political backlash for the platform, especially among users. Musk is already under federal investigation for his conduct during the takeover.Richard Seymour is a political activist and author; his latest book is The Twittering Machine Continue reading...

National Park Service says area will be called Havasupai Gardens, to honor tribe removed from the region almost 100 years agoA popular hiking spot in the Grand Canyon is changing its racially offensive name after an agreement was reached with a local Native American tribe.Indian Gardens – which is a location along the park’s Bright Angel Trail – will now be called Havasupai Gardens, the National Park Service said in a statement. It was previously known as Ha’a Gyoh in the Havasupai language. Continue reading...

The Americans have more skill and wit than in previous generations. But some resilience and flexibility appears to have been lost along the wayThe Americans, Gareth Southgate warned in the wake of England’s 6-2 dissection of Iran, will be “coming for us full throttle”.What does Top Gear USMNT: World Cup Edition look like? We saw the engine revving at close to maximum for 45 minutes or so against Wales on Monday before a splutter and a second-half stall. Continue reading...

Governor orders ‘top-to-bottom’ review of capital punishment system and asks to withdraw execution dates for two inmatesAlabama’s governor, Kay Ivey, sought a pause in executions and ordered a “top-to-bottom” review of the state’s capital punishment system on Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection.Ivey’s office issued a statement saying she had both asked the attorney general, Steve Marshall, to withdraw motions seeking execution dates for two inmates and requested that the department of corrections undertake a full review of the state’s execution process. Continue reading...

What happened in Colorado Springs this weekend was part of a trend of escalating violence targeting gay spacesAs far as mass shootings, go, it was over quickly. Just before midnight on Saturday, a man carrying multiple magazines of ammunition entered the Club Q, a gay bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado, spraying gunfire. As bullets flew, two patrons at the club subdued the attacker by grabbing the gun from him, and hitting him with it. They held him down until police arrived. The first 911 call was made at 11.56pm; the killer was taken into custody at 12.02am. But in those six minutes, five people were killed, including Daniel Aston and Derrick Rump, two men who were tending bar, and Kerry Loving, a partygoer. Eighteen were wounded. As the clock struck midnight, it became a holiday for the bar’s community: Transgender Day of Remembrance, which honors trans people killed in hate attacks, was observed on Sunday.There’s a grim routine, these days, to the mass shootings in America. Some elements remain constant from shooting to shooting. Usually, the gunman is a young white man, and usually, he has a history of violence against women. There will have been mental health episodes, or previous run-ins with police. But none of this history will have stopped him from getting a gun. American mass shooters tend to use automatic or semi-automatic long guns, the kind that aren’t available to civilians in other countries. Almost always, they purchased them legally. Continue reading...

Should the former president lose, the materials seized from Mar-a-Lago will be available for the criminal investigation. Plus, your daily update on the Qatar World CupGood morning.The justice department will ask a court today to void the special master review examining documents seized from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and make the materials available to the criminal investigation surrounding the former president.What did justice department say in its briefing? “Absent any likelihood of any success in the merits of the claim, there is no justification for an injunction,” the department wrote, as it sought the appeals court to reverse the entirety of the Trump-appointed US district court judge Aileen Cannon’s special master order.What do we know about the victims? Among the victims were two bartenders, a trans woman, a mother to an 11-year-old and a young graduate.The Colorado Springs shooter had allegedly threatened his mother with a bomb. Why could he still get a gun? There’s no public record that prosecutors sought any felony kidnapping and menacing charges against Aldrich, or that police or relatives tried to trigger Colorado’s red flag law that would have allowed authorities to seize the weapons. Questions are being asked about why. Continue reading...

From the Ukraine war to the fight for democracy to the climate crisis, reader support helped the Guardian cover the most pressing stories of 2022. As we look toward 2023, we hope you’ll consider a year-end gift.In the past year, the Guardian’s reporting exposed injustices from Tennessee to Ukraine, Ohio to the Amazon.Reader support doesn’t just make this reporting possible – it also keeps it free for everyone, regardless of their ability to pay. Below are some of the highlights of our journalism that readers funded in 2022. Continue reading...

The baffling murders of four students at an off-campus home last week have sown frustration and alarm in the small city of MoscowCol Kedrick Wills, director of the Idaho state police in the small northern Idaho city of Moscow, had a simple message. “We know that people want answers. We want answers, too,” he said a recent press conference.A manhunt has now been underway for more than a week in this remote college town where a still-unidentified suspect stabbed four University of Idaho students to death in the early morning hours of 13 November. Continue reading...

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Cain Vincent Dyer became one of the most prolific bank robbers in the US before handing himself in. He tells his remarkable story, from being in debt to a drug cartel to his attempts to wipe his slate cleanFrom the driver’s seat of his car, pulled up outside a shopping plaza in Calabasas, California, Cain Vincent Dyer sat, casing a branch of Washington Mutual bank. He monitored various things: the number of people who came and left; what customers and staff were doing. It was guesswork, really, making up his mind when to hit it. Dyer had never robbed a bank before.It was mid-morning, in August 1999. A few hours earlier, still dark outside, Dyer had grabbed his “war bag”, complete with gun, gloves, matches, a lighter and a metal bar, and driven north through Los Angeles from his home in Mission Viejo. He’d taken Interstate 405 and joined Route 101. During an impromptu bathroom stop, he’d settled on this target at random. He’d already tried to rob the place once, an hour or so earlier. That first attempt was abandoned before it even started. “I’d walked towards the door, but noticed a pregnant lady entering at the same time,” Dyer says now, 23 years later. “I couldn’t risk scaring her into an early labour. When I turned back around, I noticed my reflection. Yes, I was wearing a baseball cap and glasses, but I was still very identifiable. I realised how close I’d been to making a massive error.” Continue reading...

The dominant narrative is that all social media is bad, but this overlooks its powerful democratising and liberatory potentialThe Twitter we once knew is dying. While the site is still functioning (for now), the signs of collapse are clear. The value of a social network is its users and the communities they build, so as Elon Musk burns trust and core users leave the platform in droves, Twitter as we knew it seems to be gasping its final breaths, even if the site itself manages to cling to life.There is plenty to be said about the negatives of Twitter – many users did call it “the hellsite” after all – and about the absolute fiasco that has been the month after Musk’s takeover. But social media is complicated. As the site starts to circle the drain, many are reflecting on what made Twitter so special and what will be missed if it ceases to exist. The final act on Twitter might just be a crowdsourced Twitter eulogy. Continue reading...

Jurors will decide if his actions amount to seditious conspiracy, which carries significant jail timeAs angry supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol, ready to smash through windows and beat police officers, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes extolled them as patriots and harked back to the battle that kicked off the American revolutionary war.“Next comes our Lexington,” Rhodes told his fellow far-right extremists in a message on 6 January 2021. “It’s coming.” Continue reading...

Lisa White, who earns $241,000 a year, is one of a number of Eric Adams’s friends, family and former colleagues hired to top rolesA career 911 dispatcher and longtime friend of New York City mayor Eric Adams who rented a room to Adams in her apartment in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights for four years now has one of the highest-paid jobs in city government, records show.In May, the NYPD appointed Lisa White as its deputy commissioner for employee relations, at a salary of more than $241,000 a year – a nearly fivefold boost over her prior salary there and almost as much as the police commissioner makes. Continue reading...

Some things get easier with age. The intensity of my friendships and the emotionally sharing nature of them has deepenedI keep hearing it from men and women in my orbit: too many men in their lives are lonely and have no real mates with whom to workshop their intense emotional stuff.It’s no surprise: boys of my era were raised to compete with one another – and the world. Resilience was everything. If this sounds Darwinian, it is. Feelings. We all had them, of course. Buried deep inside. Fears? You bet. They were there to be swallowed. Conquered. But rarely shared unless life threatening. Continue reading...

Shooter faces five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury, records showThe suspect in a weekend gun attack on an LBGTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs will face five murder charges, and five additional hate crime counts of causing injury with “bias motivation”, preliminary records released on Monday afternoon show.The details came as police updated the number of injured in the Saturday night rampage at Club Q to 18, and said the alleged shooter, 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, remained in custody at a local hospital. Continue reading...

Five people were killed at Club Q, among them two bartenders, mother to an 11-year-old and a young graduateWhat we know so far about those killed in Saturday’s attack on Club Q in Colorado Springs that left five people dead and 25 injured: Continue reading...

Gregg Berhalter displayed a preference for players who ply their trade overseas. For large parts of Monday’s game it was clear whyFor the better part of 80 minutes on a cool Monday night in the Arabian desert west of Doha, it looked like the United States’ much talked-about golden generation was finally taking flight, perhaps ahead of schedule. More than five years after failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup and nearly eight-and-a-half years since their most recent appearance at the tournament, the second-youngest team in Qatar were making a swaggering return to the sport’s biggest stage.Christian Pulisic was dribbling out of pressure, running at defenders and creating attacking chances from nothing. Sergiño Dest and Antonee Robinson were making swashbuckling overlapping runs and firing away from distance with confidence and verve. The gifted midfield trio of Weston McKennie, Tyler Adams and Yunus Musah were doing the lung-bursting box-to-box handiwork that have become their hallmark. One of the youngest teams the United States has ever fielded at a World Cup, operating with a collective poise and composure beyond their experience level and an edge of aggression promised by their manager, kept rapping at the door until bursting through with a goal nine minutes before half-time. Continue reading...

Biden administration approved the conditional funding to keep Diablo Canyon facility online beyond its scheduled 2025 shutdownCalifornia’s last nuclear plant could get a new lease on life after the Biden administration announced the approval of up to $1.1bn in conditional funding on Monday. The grant funds may offer a path to keeping the ageing facility known as Diablo Canyon online beyond its scheduled shutdown in 2025.Tucked against picturesque bluffs along California’s central coast, the plant has faced a spate of controversies over the decades, for its impact on underwater ecosystems, the production of toxic waste and its proximity to earthquake fault lines. Its planned closure by 2025 seemed an all-but-certain step in California’s ambitious journey toward a greener future. Continue reading...

Eight non-profits and numerous applicants with past cannabis convictions among first batch to receive licensesNew York issued its first 36 cannabis dispensary licenses on Monday, taking a monumental step in establishing a legal and lucrative marketplace for recreational marijuana.The licenses approved by the state’s cannabis control board were the first of 175 the state plans to issue, with many in the first round reserved for applicants with past convictions for marijuana offenses. Continue reading...

Gareth Bale’s ferocious penalty cancelled out Tim Weah’s fine goal and earned Wales a point in their first World Cup game in 64 yearsMeet Gareth, a 33-year-old veteran who loves his country and golfThe thoughts of Wales manager Rob PageIt was a really, really hard decision [to pick Wayne Hennessey ahead of Danny Ward] – it gave me a few sleepless nights. Wayne’s got the shirt at the moment and his performance against Ukraine to get us here was probably the best I’ve seen from a goalkeeper in a Welsh jersey. Wardy understands; the keepers are a tight group.[On leaving out Kieffer Moore] I want pace up front, and DJ [Dan James] certainly falls into that category. Continue reading...

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? They were the unmistakable lyrics a dozen or so Wales supporters sang as they hopped off a metro escalator and descended on a stadium adjacent to a 500,000 square metre shopping mall fit with a five-star hotel. A few days after the Brazil legend Cafu wished Wales good luck wearing a tricolour bucket hat now synonymous with the nation, they are the kind of words that could have reasonably been running through Gareth Bale’s mind after his penalty snatched a late draw on their first appearance at the World Cup finals since 1958.Bale is the true prince of Wales and despite spending almost the entire match on the margins he provided another one of those big‑game moments to file with the rest of them. His catalogue this year is already turning into quite the collection: two stunning goals against Austria in March, a match-winning free‑kick against Ukraine to secure their place at these finals, and, a fortnight ago, an extra-time header to help Los Angeles FC en route to lifting the Major League Soccer Cup. Continue reading...

High on the Democrats’ midterm success, the octogenarian president presides over the annual pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkeysHail to the grandpa-in-chief!With important legislation under his belt, Republicans in disarray and Vladimir Putin in retreat, Joe Biden is looking pleased with himself and ready for family time. Continue reading...

After news of attack was reported on TV at his date’s house, man took Uber to Capitol and climbed through broken window to enterA Delaware man was sentenced to jail time for joining the January 6 Capitol attacks after seeing the violence unfold on a Tinder date’s television.Jeffrey Schaefer was sentenced to 30 days in jail and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine on Friday after prosecutors argued that he participated in the Capitol attacks after watching the rioting happen on TV while at his date’s house. Continue reading...

Two measures get go-ahead from voters but bid to institute stricter voter ID requirements failsTwo Republican ballot measures that will restrict how citizens can get their own priorities on the ballot in the future were approved by voters in Arizona, while one measure to institute stricter voter ID requirements failed.The mixed messages sent by voters on these measures aligned with the state’s increasingly purple, swing-state style, where candidates and proposals that win come from both sides of the aisle. Continue reading...

After being repeatedly humiliated by Prince Mohammed, Biden continues to appease an autocrat who disdains himThe Biden administration told a US judge last week that Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, should be granted immunity in a civil lawsuit over his role in the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. That decision effectively ends one of the last efforts to hold the prince accountable for Khashoggi’s assassination by a Saudi hit team inside the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul in October 2018.It is an act of weakness and political cowardice by Joe Biden’s administration, which staked its reputation on holding Khashoggi’s killers accountable and centering its foreign policy on human rights, rather than accommodating autocrats. Biden has done neither. Even worse, he has capitulated yet again to what he views as a realpolitik pressure to make nice with the 37-year-old prince who could well be Saudi Arabia’s king for decades. But Biden can’t seem to collect on that quid-pro-quo arrangement and claim a political victory, as Prince Mohammed has snubbed the US president at every opportunity.Mohamad Bazzi is director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and a journalism professor at New York University. He is also a non-resident fellow at Democracy for the Arab World Now Continue reading...

Among the mourners outside Club Q, there was little doubt anti-LGBTQ hatred was a motivating factor in the deadly attackWhile officials held off on releasing a motive in the shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs that killed at least five people and injured another 25, there was little doubt among the thousands of mourners who have now gathered across the city: they believe the motive was hate.“It has to stop,” said the Rev Roger Butts of the All Souls Unitarian church, of what he described as a social and political landscape in the US rampant with anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and misinformation. “Enough is enough. We have to stand up.” Continue reading...

Through adolescent realism and glittering fantasy, Princess Mia showed me more about life than my textbooks ever didNews of Hollywood franchise reboots are so frequent as to be usually unremarkable, even tiresome. But Disney’s announcement last week that it was developing a Princess Diaries 3 film felt different. “The Princess Diaries 3 movie,” in the words of a popular tweet, “will heal our broken nation.”That may sound over-dramatic – after all, cultural objects beloved by teenage girls invite suspicion at worst and polite tolerance at best; things that also fall under the banner of “chick-lit” doubly so. And yet the films, and the Meg Cabot books that provided their source material, arguably taught my teenaged self more about life – and even politics – than textbooks did. They were certainly more fun.Rebecca Liu is a Guardian commissioning editor Continue reading...

Under pressure from the fundamentalists, No 10 quickly denied reports of a ‘Swiss-style’ deal with the EU. But the mood music against Brexit is an irreversible trendThe head of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) used his conference speech today to call for a tilt in immigration policy, to reflect the fact that the UK actively needs people to move here if we are ever to see a return to prosperity. There were rumours, meanwhile, of a “Swiss-style” deal between the UK and the EU, in which we would slowly reconverge with the single market, via harmonised regulations around food and agriculture.The puzzle pieces are cohering into one picture: things are bad. Some people would like to continue arguing about root causes, arranging Brexit, Covid and the sheer fecklessness of modern Conservatism into an infinitely contestable hierarchy, but most people would just prefer things to be better. And the “how can things be better?” phase of the arc comes right before “any mistake that can be undone, let’s try to undo it”. Continue reading...

Where employees are a corporation’s key assets, workers’ greater power comes in threatening to walk out the doorWhen Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44bn, he clearly didn’t know that the key assets he was buying lay in Twitter’s 7,500 workers’ heads.On corporate balance sheets, the assets of a corporation are its factories, equipment, patents and brand name. Continue reading...

Five people killed after gunman opened fire at LGBTQ nightclub but police say death toll could have been higher• Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up hereGood morning.Police have praised the individuals who tackled a gunman after he opened fire at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs for their “incredible act of heroism” that stopped the tragedy that killed at least five people from being even worse.Who was the gunman? Police allege that 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich went into Club Q at about 11.55pm on Saturday and immediately began shooting with a rifle.Do we know anything about the victims yet? According to reports, bartenders Daniel Davis Aston and Derrick Rump were two of the victims.Was the suspect motivated by hate against LGBTQ people? A motive has not officially been established yet. However, the attack took place at Club Q, a club that has a weekly drag show on Saturday evenings and had a drag brunch scheduled for Sunday morning, which was also the transgender day of remembrance. The attack came amid growing fears of violence and intimidation toward drag queens.Why wasn’t the deal stronger? Oil-producing countries had thwarted attempts to strengthen the deal, said Laurence Tubiana, one of the architects of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, now chief executive of the European Climate Foundation. “The influence of the fossil fuel industry was found across the board,” she said. She blamed the host country, Egypt, for allowing its regional alliances to sway the final decision, a claim hotly denied by the hosts. Continue reading...

Gareth Bale leads his team in their first World Cup since 1958. The Americans should have most of the possession – and they will need to use itWales’ sole other finals appearance came in 1958, when Manchester United caretaker manager Jimmy Murphy led them to the quarter-finals of a 16-nation tournament with only four non-European teams. Wales advanced from a group also containing hosts Sweden, Hungary and Mexico, but without the injured Juventus star John Charles they lost to Brazil. Pele scored the only goal. Singled out for rough treatment by Hungary in the previous game, Charles’ absence is one of the most famous “what ifs” in Welsh football. Continue reading...

The second-year QB has thrilled fans this season, even if he is far from the finished product. Chicago must do everything to keep him healthyIt’s hard to say how Chicago Bears fans should feel following their 27-24 loss to the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday. No fans wants to see their team’s record drop to 3-8, of course, or resign themselves to the knowledge that they have no realistic route to the playoffs. Still, the loss provided more evidence that Justin Fields could be the quarterback that the Bears have been searching for since the bygone days of the Super Bowl Shuffle.Now, however, the Bears have to worry about keeping Fields healthy. Continue reading...

Five people killed and 25 injured after gunman opened fire at LGBTQ nightclubThe individuals who tackled a gunman after he opened fire at a LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs have been praised for their “incredible act of heroism” that prevented the tragedy that killed at least five people from being even worse.The mayor of Colorado Springs, John Suthers, told CNN one or two individuals in the club moved quickly to “subdue” the shooter. Continue reading...

Joshua Thurman describes the moment he heard gunfire and saw a 'flash from the muzzle of the gun' used in a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs which left five people dead. Thurman says the shooting has 'shattered' the local LGBTQ community. 'How can we now do anything knowing something like this can happen?' Authorities say the attack is being investigated to see if it should be prosecuted as a hate crime

At least three others shot dead in attack at Club Q in Colorado Springs, after which a man was arrestedAmong those killed at a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub targeted by a mass shooting late Saturday were two of the establishment’s bartenders, according to community members.Daniel Davis Aston and Derrick Rump were two of at least five people shot dead at Club Q in Colorado Springs, local LGBTQ activist Alex Clemons-Laput said. Other media outlets reported Aston and Rump were among those slain at the club. Continue reading...