Even in a country that has grown numb to the horror of school massacres, Monday's shooting death of a student and a teacher at a private Christian school in Wisconsin was shocking. Surprisingly, Natalie Rupnow, the culprit who allegedly committed suicide during the outburst, was a girl and only 15 years old. The number of mass shootings committed by women is quite low. According to an NBC News examination of Gun Violence Archive data, less than 60 of the more than 2,000 mass shootings since 2013 in which the gender of the offender was known involved female attackers. According to the nonprofit organization that monitors gun violence, the Gun Violence Archive, a mass shooting occurs when four or more persons are shot in a single occurrence, excluding the gunman. Although active shooter inci...

Authorities said that a teenager who attended Abundant Life Christian School opened fire on Monday, killing a teacher and a pupil at a private school in Wisconsin. Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes told reporters that the accused gunman, a female student, was dead and six people were injured. What we know about the shooting is as follows: When did the shooting happen? At 10:57 a.m., authorities were called to Abundant Life Christian School, which is located east of Madison's downtown, in response to a report of an active shooter, according to Barnes. At a press conference on Tuesday, he stated that the 911 call was placed by a second-grade teacher. Barnes had misreported on Monday that the call was placed by a second-grader. It was an error. I'm sorry, and I'll make it clear today. ...

According to a leading international war crimes prosecutor, mass graves discovered in Syria in the days following President Bashar al-Assad was deposed are providing proof of some of the biggest atrocities since the Nazis. After touring two mass burial sites in the towns of Qutayfah and Najha near Damascus, former U.S. war crimes ambassador at large Stephen Rapp told Reuters on Tuesday that the state-run machinery of death tortured and executed over 100,000 people. Rapp, who oversaw prosecutions at the war crimes tribunals in Rwanda and Sierra Leone and is currently assisting with the documentation of evidence of war crimes in Syria, stated, "Given what we've seen in these mass graves, I don't have much doubt about those kinds of numbers." A request for comment from Rapp, who also talked t...

The State Department is being sued by Palestinian families for supporting Israel's military campaign in Gaza, which has resulted in a humanitarian crisis in the confined territory and killed tens of thousands of people. Plaintiffs from Gaza, the occupied West Bank, and the United States filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday, accusing Washington of making exceptions for its close ally Israel in order to get around the 1997 Leahy law, which forbids foreign military aid in cases where there is proof of human rights violations. In a statement released by the legal nonprofit Democracy for the Arab World Now, or DAWN, which assisted in bringing the lawsuit, one of the plaintiffs, Ahmed Moor, a Palestinian American, said, "My surviving family members i...

Before sunrise on Wednesday, Indiana carried out its first execution since 2009, with a large portion of the procedure being kept secret from the public. No media representatives will be permitted to witness the execution of Joseph Corcoran, 49, who was executed by lethal injection for the 1997 murders of his brother and three other men, including Corcoran's sister's fiancé, according to state law. After a federal appeals court on Monday concurred with a federal judge who found the convicted man competent to be executed, his legal team proceeded to petition the federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, on Tuesday to stop the execution. According to a statement from the Indiana Department of Correction, Corcoran was declared dead at 12:44 a.m. CT, and the execution procedure started...

As she enshrines her memory in a new foundation to aid other students, the mother of Madison Mogen, one of the four students killed at an apartment near the University of Idaho two years ago, has spoken out about how she is coping with the loss of her daughter. The November 2022 quadruple killing stunned the country and sparked a national conversation about college campus safety. The attack claimed the lives of Mogen, a 21-year-old senior, Xana Kernodle, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Kernodle's boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20. Following years of legal wrangling, Bryan Kohberger, 29, is charged with the murders of the four students, and his trial is scheduled for the summer of next year. If found guilty, he might be executed. Mogen's mother, Karen Laramie, discussed her loss on Wednesday's "TOD...

Before sunrise on Wednesday, Indiana carried out its first execution since 2009, with a large portion of the procedure being kept secret from the public. No media representatives will be permitted to witness the execution of Joseph Corcoran, 49, who was executed by lethal injection for the 1997 murders of his brother and three other men, including Corcoran's sister's fiancé, according to state law. After a federal appeals court on Monday concurred with a federal judge who found the convicted man competent to be executed, his legal team proceeded to petition the federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, on Tuesday to stop the execution. According to a statement from the Indiana Department of Correction, Corcoran was declared dead at 12:44 a.m. CT, and the execution procedure started...

In his new book, Pope Francis has said that British agents and police inside the country stopped two murder attempts against him during a historic visit to northern Iraq. Francis claimed authorities informed him that two known suicide bombers were preparing to target one of his events in the damaged city of Mosul after he landed in the nation's capital, Baghdad, in March 2021. He wrote "Spera," which means "Hope," as soon as we touched down, and excerpts of it are being featured in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. The Vatican Gendarmerie was notified by the police of a British intelligence warning that a young suicide bomber, a lady armed with explosives, was en route to Mosul to detonate herself during the papal visit. He added that a van had also driven off with the same intent...