Families of Uvalde school shooting victims sue Microsoft, Meta and gunmaker | Gun Violence News

Families of Uvalde school shooting victims sue Microsoft, Meta and gunmaker | Gun Violence News

Families of the victims killed in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, have filed two wrongful death lawsuits: one against the firearm manufacturer and another against two technology companies, Meta and Microsoft, for their alleged role in marketing the weapon used. Friday’s pair of lawsuits came on the second anniversary…

Uvalde settles for m with school shooting victims’ families | Gun Violence News

Uvalde settles for $2m with school shooting victims’ families | Gun Violence News

Announcement comes two days before the two-year anniversary of the massacre at the elementary school in the Texas city. The city of Uvalde has reached a $2m settlement with most of the families of the victims of a mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas city, one of their…

Why are Kenyan forces set to intervene in Haiti and how is the US involved? | Police News

Why are Kenyan forces set to intervene in Haiti and how is the US involved? | Police News

Kenyan President William Ruto is in the United States for a three-day state visit in the first such trip for an African leader since 2008. When Ruto meets his counterpart Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday, at the top of their agenda will be a multinational security intervention…

Texas governor Abbott pardons man who killed Black Lives Matter protester | Black Lives Matter News

Texas governor Abbott pardons man who killed Black Lives Matter protester | Black Lives Matter News

Daniel Perry was jailed for 25 years for shooting dead protester Garrett Foster in Austin in 2020. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has granted a full pardon to a former US Army sergeant and Uber driver who was jailed for 25 years for fatally shooting a Black Lives Matter protester in…

Gunmen kill at least 11 in two attacks in Pakistan’s Balochistan | Armed Groups News

Gunmen kill at least 11 in two attacks in Pakistan’s Balochistan | Armed Groups News

No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks which took place on the Quetta-Taftan Highway. Gunmen have killed 11 people in two separate attacks in the Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan and Iran, officials have said. Police on Saturday were searching for the assailants who killed nine people…

A knotty question of parent liability in the Crumbley school shooting case | Gun Violence News

A knotty question of parent liability in the Crumbley school shooting case | Gun Violence News

The court cases against Jennifer and James Crumbley have hinged on a thorny question: As school shootings become increasingly common in the United States, can parents be held liable for the actions of teenage gunmen? Juries in Michigan have wrestled with that question in recent weeks, as they grappled with…

Why mass kidnappings still plague Nigeria a decade after Chibok abductions | Armed Groups News

Why mass kidnappings still plague Nigeria a decade after Chibok abductions | Armed Groups News

Lagos, Nigeria – In the decade since the armed group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 students at an all-girls school in the town of Chibok, abductions have become a recurrent fixture in Nigeria, especially in the restive northern regions. Just last month, on March 7, a criminal gang kidnapped 287…

One killed, two wounded as child opens fire at Finnish school | Gun Violence News

One killed, two wounded as child opens fire at Finnish school | Gun Violence News

Three children were wounded after another minor opened fire at a primary school near Finland’s capital Helsinki. A child has been killed and another two wounded after another minor opened fire at a primary school in Finland, according to authorities. Finnish police said the 12-year-old shooter was arrested early on…