A gunman injured nine people at a strip mall in Houston early on Monday before being “neutralized” by police, a local ABC affiliate reports. The Houston Fire Department later confirmed that the suspect was killed in a shootout with police. Six people were taken to nearby hospitals.

Washington state police said at least four people were killed in a shooting on Friday outside the Cascade Mall in Burlington, about 65 miles north of Seattle. At least one suspect remains at large.

The theater chain Cinemark is no longer pursuing $700,000 in legal fees from victims of the Aurora, Colorado mass shooting after reaching an agreement on Tuesday.

On the first day of fall classes on August 24 at the University of Texas, Austin, students were scrambling to catch florid plastic dildos flying over their heads, eager to display them on the outside of their backpacks. Outrageous? Embarrassing? Absurd? That’s the point. More than a thousand protesters— students and…

Another day, another routine outburst of fatal gun violence in America: four people were shot at the Berrien County courthouse in St. Joseph Michigan on Monday afternoon. According to initial reports, three civilians and a police officer were wounded. Three of those people have reportedly died, including the shooter.

After winning a civil case that found them not liable for the 2012 Aurora mass shooting, theater chain Cinemark is seeking legal fees from the families of those killed.

On the latest episode of Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, our host took a beautiful rhetorical dump on the Republican Party, whose comrades in the Senate recently rejected four extremely sane measures restricting gun sales one week after 49 people were murdered in an Orlando gay club.

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Bill O’Reilly and Gretchen Carlson made Fox News history this week by experiencing a brief tandem bout of decency. Both hosts came very close to saying that the federal assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004, should be renewed. And Fox News fans are taking it so well!

And here’s the National Rifle Association, stumbling in late and loud:

A shooting has been reported at an engineering building on the UCLA campus. Students are being told to take cover in a secure location. As of now, there’s no other information available.

A man who killed three people and injured 14 more in a shooting spree in Kansas had been served with a restraining order shortly before he started his attack, police said Friday.

Colorado State Rep. Patrick Neville, a survivor of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, said more of his friends would have survived the attack if his teachers had been armed. There is not much we can say to that, is there?

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Several of the biggest theme parks in the United States are increasing their security measures because of recent mass shootings and terrorist attacks occurring, uh, everywhere, constantly. Disneyland, Universal Studios, Disney World, and SeaWorld will all start using metal detectors; Disney World is also banning the…

On Tuesday morning, Fox & Friends distinguished itself once more, cementing its place as a television program unafraid to offer you the lowest common denominator of American reactionary politics.

In a press conference Friday afternoon, the FBI announced that the mass shooting perpetrated in San Bernardino by a married couple, Tashfeen Malik and Syez Rizwan Farook, is now being investigated as a terrorist attack.

Now that the investigation is complete, the Coroner Division of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office has both notified family members and released the names of the 14 victims from yesterday’s brutal mass shooting.

The two shooters who carried out the attack in San Bernardino, married couple Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, fired up to 75 rounds and left behind three remote-controlled pipe bombs that failed to detonate, according to police. All four firearms used in the shooting were purchased legally and…