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Scott PowersJune 21, 2016

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch expressed strong confidence in Orlando Tuesday that investigators will determine pretty clearly why Omar Mateen walked into a joyful nightclub and killed as many people as he could. Lynch had few answers in hand about the biggest horror and saddest day in Orlando’s history, Mateen’s June 12 post-midnight attack on […]

Associated PressJune 20, 2016

A divided Senate blocked rival election-year plans to curb guns on Monday, eight days after the horror of Orlando’s mass shooting intensified pressure on lawmakers to act but knotted them in gridlock anyway — even over restricting firearms for terrorists. In largely party-line votes, rejected were one proposal from each side to keep extremists from […]

Associated PressJune 20, 2016

A candidate running for Congress in the Florida Panhandle has launched a contest on his Facebook campaign page to give away a semi-automatic rifle. Greg Evers said Monday that he is giving away an AR-15, because terrorist incidents are on the rise. The announcement comes barely a week after a shooting at a gay nightclub […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 20, 2016

Rep. Corrine Brown likely wasn’t counting on National Rifle Association support in her campaign in the newly redrawn Florida’s Fifth Congressional District. That support, a statistical long shot to begin with, became even less likely in the wake of her fiery comments on News One Now, in which the veteran U.S. Congresswoman called on Congress to stand up […]

Jim RosicaJune 20, 2016

Update: Later Monday, the Justice Department released a full text of one of the shooter’s calls, saying it wanted to “provide the highest level of transparency possible under the circumstances.” Click here for the statement and transcript. Gov. Rick Scott Monday called on federal authorities to release more from the 911 calls made by the Orlando shooter. […]

Associated PressJune 20, 2016

Orlando gunman Omar Mateen spoke in Arabic to a 911 dispatcher, identified himself an Islamic soldier and demanded to a crisis negotiator that the U.S. “stop bombing Syria and Iraq,” according to transcripts released by the FBI on Monday. The partial, printed transcripts were of three conversations Mateen had with the police during the worst […]

Associated PressJune 20, 2016

Federal investigators promised to provide more insight as to what was happening inside the Pulse nightclub after a gunman started a deadly assault that was the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The FBI was releasing on Monday a printed, partial transcript of the conversations between the gunman within the Pulse gay nightclub and […]

Associated PressJune 19, 2016

A week has passed since the Orlando nightclub shooting that killed 49 club patrons and the funeral processions are wrapping up, but survivors and victims’ families say they realize the nightmare will live on long after the world’s attention fades. Jeannette McCoy made it out of the Pulse nightclub alive on June 12 as gunman […]

Associated PressJune 16, 2016

While his victims texted heartbreaking last words to loved ones from the blood-drenched bathrooms, Omar Mateen apparently went on Facebook to measure the shockwaves his attack on a gay nightclub was generating. He searched for the terms “Pulse Orlando” and “Shooting,” according to a letter released by a Senate committee. The letter detailing Mateen’s Facebook […]

Jim RosicaJune 16, 2016

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Four days after the Orlando shooting, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said: “we have to be concerned about the homegrown violent extremist that could strike at any place.” Johnson spoke Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program. The Department of Homeland Security has issued a National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin “to advise (the) public of the current […]

Tag: Omar Mateen

Loretta Lynch brings pledge of support, few new answers

A divided Senate answers Orlando with gridlock on gun curbs

Greg Evers announces AR-15 giveaway

Corrine Brown urges Congress to stand up to the NRA

Rick Scott to feds: Release the Orlando 911 tapes

911 transcript: Orlando gunman said he was Islamic soldier

FBI releasing conversations between Orlando gunman and police

As Orlando funerals wrap up, survivors worry about future

Orlando gunman apparently searched Facebook during attack

Jeh Johnson: ‘Violent extremist(s) could strike at any place’