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Omar Mateen aspired to be a police officer and had once applied to join a police academy. He worked at a centre for juvenile delinquents as a correctional officer. More recently he was an armed guard for a gated retirement community in South Florida. A former co-worker said that Mateen’s anger was “constant.” He was

WASHINGTON – US Jewish groups called for national unity Sunday in the wake of an Islamic State-inspired shooting attack on a club popular among central Florida’s LGBTQ community, emphasizing that the incident which has left at least 50 dead can be seen both as a hate crime and a terror attack. Prominent Jewish leaders also

By Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — This is what Wolf Blitzer, a competent and informed television news host, declared at one point on Sunday afternoon.  Forty-nine victims were known dead and at least 53 wounded in the worst mass shooting in US history—the assault by yet another crazed Muslim jihadist on the Pulse gay

LOS ANGELES — 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. Pride festival in West Hollywood. Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said on Twitter that the 20-year-old man told one

If you needed more proof that the country is painfully divided over politics, picture this. A former divorce mediator, trained in the art of keeping husbands and wives from throttling each other, is trying to create a calm, safe space for people to talk about politics. Living Room Conversations is the brainchild of Joan Blades

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump seized on the worst shooting in U.S. history to call for a more muscular response to Islamic terrorism and later noted he’d been congratulated “for being right.” Hillary Clinton called it an “act of terror” and called for more curbs on guns. The two responses illustrated the starkly different approaches the

Is it a terrorist attack; a hate crime; a mass shooting; the deranged actions of a mentally ill man; a gun control issue; Islamic extremism; all of the above? The Sunday morning massacre of 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida has left Americans spinning in a half-dozen different directions looking for a

Erik Roper, a 40-year-old labor attorney from Sacramento, is one of those Facebook friends who’s unmistakably and unabashedly a Bernie Bro. Throughout the primary season, he could be reliably expected to scour the web for “Hillary is awful!”- and “Bernie can win!”-themed articles, and post them with abandon. Then came April, and May, and the