Gun control

The man charged with killing seven people at a July 4 shooting in Highland Park has reportedly confessed to police. The 21-year-old suspect -- identified as Robert Crimo III -- also told authorities he had contemplated carrying out a second shooting, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Crimo had fled to Madison, Wisconsin, after shooting at an Independence Day parade from a roof in suburban Chicago. More than two dozen people were wounded, some critically, and hundreds of marchers, parents and children fled in a panic. Some of the wounded remained hospitalised in critical condition and the death toll could still rise. Chicago shooting: Governor slams 'American plague' of gun violence after July 4 attack The suspect initially evaded capture by dressing as a woman and blending into the fleeing crowd. He was then arrested as he turned back to Illinois after deciding against another shooting, according to Lake County Major Crime Task Force spokesman Christopher … [Read more...] about Highland Park suspect confesses to mass shooting, say US prosecutors

By Vanessa Buschschlüter Published 2 hours ago Share close Share page Copy link About sharing One of Italy's most wanted men, mobster Rocco Morabito, has arrived in Rome after being extradited from Brazil, where he had been in hiding. Known as the "cocaine king of Milan", Morabito was arrested in May last year in a joint operation by Brazilian and Italian police. The 55-year-old will serve a 30-year prison sentence for drug trafficking. The mafia boss spent decades on the run using a fake identity in South America. Police finally tracked him down last year to João Pessoa, a port city in north-eastern Brazil, where he was arrested along with another member of the 'Ndrangheta mafia group, Vincenzo Pasquino. Pasquino has since been sentenced to 17 years in prison for drug trafficking. Escape artist The arrival of Rocco Morabito in Rome ends a decades-long manhunt. … [Read more...] about Rocco Morabito: Fugitive mobster handed over to Italy

Ukraine needs an 'urgent' reconstruction agenda says expert Sign up for our news briefing, including a daily special Russia-Ukraine edition SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info THE EXTENT of President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine has been revealed as a new map shows how many thousands of civilians have been killed since Russia’s invasion. Russia began massing its troops along the Ukrainian border in February of last year — an exercise that continued for a few months until the summer, when personnel slowly peeled away. By October, however, the pile-up began again, and with the soldiers arrived military equipment. Related articles China’s President Xi refuses to visit Moscow Putin humiliated as blitzkrieg plans … [Read more...] about Horrific map exposes how many civilians have died in Ukraine

Top Gun Maverick, then Elvis and now Thor: Love And Thunder: it’s got to be the best run of July blockbusters in living memory. We’ll be lucky to glimpse the sunshine. In the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (or rather, his movies) has carved out a niche as ‘the funny one’. That’s down to the utterly hilarious Thor: Ragnarok (2017), which, under the unique direction of Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit) played out like a super-hero sized send-up of itself. Thankfully Waititi is back and significantly more in control of his mega-bucks Hollywood behemoth this time round. A quick flashback reminds us of where Chris Hemsworth’s hero, the Norse god, Thor is now at. After basically everyone close to him has died (multiple times in the case of his brother, Tom Hiddleston’s Loki), Waititi’s narrator tells us how a lonely Thor has shaken off his ‘dad bod’ for an ever more awesome ‘god bod’, but he’s still a ‘sad bod’ inside. Thor still holds a candle for his one true … [Read more...] about Thor: Love And Thunder review – An obscenely entertaining rainbow highway straight to blockbuster heaven

H ere, lying in a stained carton, are notes on a refugee camp in Tanzania, where surviving Tutsis and their Hutu enemies lived side by side in blue tarp tents. It is 1994. The notes record that there are people everywhere, milling and moving in short parades on the main path in the camp, hastily constructed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Women wear colorful cloths, khangas , and carry yellow plastic containers of water on their heads. Children and old men push up against one another, as if at a bargain sale. They hold portable radios to their ears. A man in a brown rain hat drags a reluctant goat by a rope. White smoke mixes with the smells of fresh earth and excrement. At an outdoor butcher shop, a cow’s bloodied horn lies beside the animal’s astonished head. I greet a group of young Hutus in French. “Did you participate in the killings?,” I ask. “We did nothing,” one says. “Did you see others do the killing?” He says, “We saw nothing.” I ask, “How many … [Read more...] about The World Is a Thriving Slaughterhouse

The most famous story about modern presidential campaigning now has a quaint old-world tone. It’s about the showdown between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy in the first debate of their 1960 campaign, which was also the very first nationally televised general-election debate in the United States. The story is that Kennedy looked great, which is true, and Nixon looked terrible, which is also true—and that this visual difference had an unexpected electoral effect. As Theodore H. White described it in his hugely influential book The Making of the President 1960 , which has set the model for campaign coverage ever since, “sample surveys” after the debate found that people who had only heard Kennedy and Nixon talking, over the radio, thought that the debate had been a tie. But those who saw the two men on television were much more likely to think that Kennedy—handsome, tanned, non-sweaty, poised—had won. Historians who have followed up on this story haven’t found data to back … [Read more...] about When Donald Meets Hillary: Who Will Win the Debates?