Full Coverage: Orlando nightclub shooting
A heavily armed gunman who had reportedly pledged allegiance to Islamic State stormed into a packed gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., early Sunday, and began rapidly firing into the crowd, killing 49 people and wounding 53 in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
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lando Health and Florida Hospital will not bill survivors of the Pulse nightclub massacre for out-of-pocket medical expenses, officials announced Wednesday.
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The veteran FBI agent and a local sheriff’s deputy took no chances when they got a credible tip about a potential terrorist.
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When Ellie Lader woke up that Sunday morning, her wife was sitting up in bed looking at her phone.
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In 911 calls the night of the Pulse shooting, some of the patrons trapped inside the Orlando, Fla., nightclub described seeing the shooter.
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Since the shooting at an Orlando nightclub last week that left 49 people dead, reports have emerged that gunman Omar Mateen frequented the gay club, used gay dating apps and had gay lovers.
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The gunman who launched last week’s deadly shooting rampage at an Orlando gay nightclub identified himself to police as an Islamic solider and demanded that the U.S. stop bombing Syria and Iraq, the FBI said Monday.
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At least 50,000 people packed into an Orlando park for a candlelight vigil Sunday night, one week since a gunman shot and killed 49 people at a gay nightclub.
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The Justice Department on Monday will make public some conversations between hostage negotiators and the perpetrator of the deadly Orlando, Fla., nightclub massacre, Atty.
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A trigger is pulled, and a country is devastated. Again and again.
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As the hours ground on and the death toll mounted, Orlando Torres wondered when the police would come to rescue him and others trapped by the gunman who had stormed the Pulse nightclub.
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A long line of crosses became small windows into 49 lives lost.
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After nearly a week, Tiara Parker still repeats a mantra to herself as a reminder: “It’s real, it’s real, it’s real.”
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Among the most chilling details to emerge in the Orlando massacre is that the killer paused during his three-hour rampage at the Pulse nightclub to search Facebook for news about it.
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To the editor: I can’t stop thinking about all the lives that were tragically cut short in Orlando Sunday morning.
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This will be the first and final time you read the name Omar Mateen in this column.
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This week, 49 people were killed and 53 were injured by a gunman in an Orlando, Fla., nightclub.
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FBI agents have recovered security footage from a number of cameras inside and outside Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., that recorded the violent shooting rampage that left 49 people dead, a U.S law enforcement official said Friday.
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Flashbacks floated through Josh Replogle’s mind as he drove through darkness toward the crime scene Sunday morning.
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Oppositional. Lacks remorse. Verbally abusive.
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South Carolina’s governor somberly held up programs from the funerals of the victims of last year’s Charleston church shootings, saying Friday during a memorial service that the faith of those victims showed how to heal in the aftermath of still another mass shooting.
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For years, the United States has been viewed as a haven for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people around the world, with immigration authorities approving asylum for LGBT people fleeing violence, LGBT students coming for college, and wealthy internationals choosing the U.S. for vacations.
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2:02 a.m.: An off-duty officer working at the nightclub responds to shots at the entrance and exchanges fire with Omar Mateen.
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Walking into the Pulse nightclub hours after a gunman opened fire Sunday, Chief Medical Examiner Joshua Stephany was struck by the magnitude of the task before him.
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Several vigils and prayer services are planned around Southern California on Sunday to commemorate the victims of the Orlando, Fla., nightclub shootings.
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Stickers and posters featuring a rainbow-colored version of the Gadsden flag and the hashtag #ShootBack were raising eyebrows in West Hollywood on Thursday morning in the wake of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Florida.
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With orange spray paint, Greenwood Cemetery caretaker Owl Goingback outlined a rectangle under a century-old oak, then stepped aside as a backhoe claw plunged into the spot where Anthony Luis Laureano Disla’s body will be buried.
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Jaysean Alexander left his Jacksonville, Fla., home Sunday morning and sped south on Interstate 95.
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Latin Night was wrapping up at Pulse around 2 a.m. as about 320 people danced and drank to thumping reggaeton, salsa and merengue.
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President Obama is a reluctant veteran of memorial services for mass murders, yet no single one he’s presided over prepared him fully to mark the Orlando massacre.
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The first time Noor Salman got married, the wedding celebration was held in an apartment belonging to her father’s family just a few blocks from the Palestinian presidential compound in Ramallah.
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CIA Director John Brennan warned Thursday that as Islamic State loses ground in Syria and Iraq, it probably will use “guerrilla tactics” to launch more terrorist attacks like those in Orlando, Fla., Brussels and Paris.
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As President Obama arrived in central Florida to visit victims’ families Thursday, investigators were still trying to determine what motivated the deadly nightclub shooter, and whether he had help.
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The gunman who massacred 49 people at a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., searched on social media for news of his murderous rampage during the attack, investigators have found.
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Call that killer a radical Islamic terrorist. Call him a hateful homophobic. Or a homicidal wacko.
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Even the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history is not likely to persuade Congress to change the nation’s gun laws.
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The comfort of words flowed, as smooth as their spirits.
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To her father-in-law, the California native whose husband attacked a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., killing 49 people, is a “sweet lady” and attentive mother.
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San Diego police are investigating an ominous post reported on Craigslist that referred to the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., and warned that “San Diego you are next.”
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Universal Orlando staff and guests gathered outside of Hogwarts castle Monday to pay tribute to one of their own in a vigil straight out of “Harry Potter.”
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As details continue to emerge about the shooting in Orlando, Fla., that left 49 patrons of a gay club dead and more than 50 others wounded, many celebrities have begun to share their feelings about the massacre.
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Seddique Mateen was too exhausted Wednesday to wake at 4 a.m. and eat before a long day of fasting for Ramadan.
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How do you grieve a son, a daughter, a sibling, taken suddenly from you?
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Three years ago, Mark Carson was walking with a friend in Greenwich Village, the Manhattan neighborhood that birthed the contemporary LGBT movement.
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As Patience Carter and two friends cowered inside the handicapped bathroom stall, injured and pinned by a crush of bleeding bodies, the gunman who opened fire in the Pulse nightclub kept talking.
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The day after Omar Mateen shot about 100 people in an Orlando nightclub, killing 49 in the worst mass shooting in modern American history, many in this quiet Florida seaside town were upset when the local newspaper splashed “ONE OF US” across its front page.
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With emotions still raw over the massacre in Orlando, Fla., tempers flared Tuesday as divided California state lawmakers advanced a dozen gun-control bills, including proposals to outlaw the sale of semiautomatic rifles with easily detachable magazines.
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As has become routine in moments of national tragedy, the mass shooting in Orlando dominated the late-night conversation on Sunday and Monday nights.
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“You can take my life, but you won’t stop our voice.”
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Things started out fairly well, by a busy emergency room’s standards.
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Omar Mateen increasingly sought out Islamic State videos and other radical Islamist propaganda in the months leading up to his shooting rampage at an Orlando, Fla., gay nightclub Sunday, investigators have found.
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A YouTube video in which a Sacramento Baptist church pastor praised the massacre of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida and called the victims pedophiles and predators was removed Tuesday for violating the website’s policy on hate speech.
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In less than six seconds, 17 shots reverberated through the Pulse nightclub.
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Like their counterparts worldwide, many gay Muslims in the United States have long felt doubly ostracized – both by the wider national culture and by their co-religionists.
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Omar Mateen was scaring his co-workers. In the spring of 2013, the edgy security guard at St.
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The military-style rifles used in some of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, including Sunday’s massacre at a gay nightclub in Florida, have become increasingly popular in recent years among American consumers.
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Each victim has a different face.
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The gunman who attacked a Florida LGBT nightclub had attended the club before the attack and had used a gay dating and chat app, witnesses said.
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On the eve of key votes on a package of 11 gun control bills, California lawmakers on Monday cited the Orlando massacre as a call for approval of the measures, and opponents of the measures accused the legislators of exploiting a tragedy.
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A well-known West Hollywood gay bar is considering making armed security guards a regular presence after the mass shooting in an Orlando, Fla., gay nightclub Sunday.
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Images from Florida and national newspapers the day after the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub that left 50 people dead.
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The candidates didn’t take the requisite timeout from the presidential campaign trail.
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Adele dedicated her concert Sunday night in Belgium to victims of the shooting at a gay club in Orlando that left 49 people dead and 53 injured.
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An Indiana man who told Santa Monica police he was on his way to the L.A.
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“History has its eyes on you,” Christopher Jackson’s George Washington sang in one of the most anticipated moments of the highly anticipated Tony Awards on Sunday night.
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From around the world, officials and public figures are expressing condemnation and shock over the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday.
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The news of the Pulse nightclub shooting took Abel Alan Fingurs back to his childhood a generation ago, when the gay rights movement was in its infancy and he was often scared.
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At 2:02 a.m. on a muggy night in central Florida, a gunman traded shots with an off-duty police officer, slipped into a nightclub with a rifle and killed at least 50 people in the most lethal mass shooting in U.S. history.
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Orange County religious and community leaders gathered Sunday to stand in solidarity against the shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., that left 50 dead and at least 53 injured.
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It was last call early Sunday morning at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
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Authorities on Sunday were trying to determine the intentions of an Indiana man with a cache of weapons, ammunition and explosive-making materials in his car and apparent plans to attend the L.A.
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Officials here said they are increasing police presence throughout the city following the deadly attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
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President Obama said the FBI is investigating the worst mass shooting in U.S. history as an act of terrorism, calling the Sunday morning slaughter of 50 people at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., a “horrific massacre.”
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The murder of at least 49 people in Orlando early Sunday was an act of terrorism, pure and simple.
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His ex-wife said he was unstable and beat her.
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President Obama described the shootings in Orlando, Fla., as “an act of terrorism” and urged the nation to pray for the victims and their families.
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Amid heightened security in the aftermath of a shooting in Orlando, Fla., thousands poured into the streets of West Hollywood on Sunday for an L.A.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, that great sage of despair, asked, “What if some day or night a demon were to steal into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it you will have to live once again and innumerable times again; and there will be nothing new in it…?’”
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The mass shooting in Florida comes as Islamic State forces are stretched thin, under financial strain and losing ground near strongholds in Iraq, Syria and Libya, U.S. officials say.
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