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TUE, 5/17/2022

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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A row of different AR-15 style rifles are displayed for sale at the Firing-Line indoor range and gun shop in Aurora, Colo. A warning about possible violence last year involving the 18-year-old now being held in the Buffalo, New York, supermarket shooting is turning attention to New York’s “red flag” law.

Could 'red flag' laws have stopped teen charged in racist attack in Buffalo?

Less than a year before authorities say he opened fire and killed 10 people in a racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store, 18-year-old Payton Gendron was investigated for making a threatening statement at his high school.
President Joe Biden arrives Friday at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware.

In Buffalo, Biden to confront the racism he's vowed to fight

When Joe Biden talks about his decision to run against President Donald Trump in 2020, the story always starts with Charlottesville. He says it was the men with torches shouting bigoted slogans that drove him to join what he calls the "battle for the soul of America."
Iuliia Loseva cries over the coffin of her husband Volodymyr Losev, 38, during his funeral at a cemetery in Zorya Truda, Odesa region, Ukraine, Monday, May 16, 2022. Volodymyr Losev, a Ukrainian volunteer soldier, was killed on May 7 when the military vehicle he was driving ran over a mine in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

From civilian to soldier: Ukrainian army volunteer buried

Iuliia Loseva buried her husband in the village cemetery near her home
FILE - Dozens of Syrians wait at the President's Bridge in Damascus for relatives they hope would be among those released from prison May 3, 2022, on the second day of the Muslim Fitr holiday. A newly released video taken in 2013 showed blindfolded men who were thrown into a large pit and shot dead by Syrian agents, who then set the bodies on fire. The video stirs new fears over the fate of tens of thousands who went missing during Syria's long-running conflict and serves as a grim reminder of the war's unpunished massacres, just as similar atrocities take place in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)

Massacre video reopens wounds for missing Syrians' families

The Siyam family believed for many years that their adult son was being held at a government prison after he went missing at a checkpoint nearly a decade ago
Michael Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer who represented the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign in 2016, arrives to the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse, Monday, May 16, 2022, in Washington. Sussmann is accused of making a false statement to the FBI during the Trump-Russia probe. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Opening statements set in trial linked to Russia probe
Opening statements are set to be delivered in the trial of a lawyer for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign who is accused of lying to the FBI as it investigated potential ties between Donald Trump and Russia in 2016
Spain, Morocco reopen land border crossings as ties improve
The land borders between Spain and Morocco at Spain's North African enclave cities of Ceuta and Melilla have reopened after being closed for more than two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic and later a diplomatic crisis between the two countries
D'Zhane Parker, left, Cicley Gay, center, and Shalomyah Bowers pose for a portrait on Friday, May 13, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
AP Exclusive: Black Lives Matter has $42 million in assets
A new, 63-page IRS tax filing shared exclusively with The Associated Press shows the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc. ended its last fiscal year with nearly $42 million in net assets
Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto signs a petition for NATO membership application in Helsinki, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Sweden and Finland on Tuesday pushed ahead with their bids to join NATO even as Turkey insisted it won't let the previously non-aligned Nordic countries into the alliance because of their alleged support for Kurdish militants. (Annti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva via AP)
Sweden, Finland push ahead with NATO bids as Turkey objects
Sweden and Finland have pushed ahead with their bids to join NATO even as Turkey insists it won't let the previously nonaligned Nordic countries into the alliance because of their alleged support for Kurdish militants
Metra service resumes after train hits person in Geneva
Metra Union Pacific West service was disrupted Tuesday morning after a train struck a pedestrian near Geneva.
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Director Marc Smith and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker say leaders are working to try to address hiring and other issues cited in a new report critical of the agency.
Daily Herald opinion: Amid auditor's report on DCFS, we need stronger signs that leaders are working on problems
Daily Herald opinion: State leaders say they are working to address chronic problems at the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, but we need to see signs they are approaching the situation with the necessary sense of urgency.
Judge sets $3 million bail for man charged with murder of North Chicago teen
A Lake County judge set bail at $3 million Tuesday for one of three people charged in connection with the shooting death of a 14-year-old boy at a North Chicago gas station Sunday afternoon.
This image provided by the Erie County District Attorney's Office shows Payton Gendron. While law enforcement officials have grown adept since the Sept. 11 attacks at disrupting well-organized plots, they face a much tougher challenge in intercepting self-radicalized young men who absorb racist screeds on social media and plot violence on their own. (Erie County District Attorney's Office via AP)
Buffalo suspect: Lonely, isolated -- and a sign of trouble
Classmates and neighbors of the Buffalo shooting suspect say they never saw the violent and angry side that allegedly fueled his racist massacre over the weekend that killed 10 Black people
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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