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It's been 20 years since the federal assault weapons ban expired. CBS News homeland security and justice reporter Nicole Sganga reports on the impact and talks to March Fourth founder and co-president Kitty Brandtner about the importance of the 1994 law.
The family of the alleged Apalachee High School shooter says the suspected gunman's mother tried to warn school staff of an "extreme emergency involving her son" before shots were fired. CBS News senior national correspondent Mark Strassmann has more.
The suspect's grandfather also told CBS News that the boy texted his mother on the morning of the shooting, "I'm sorry."
The father of Colt Gray, the suspected gunman in the Apalachee High School shooting, has been arrested.
The 14-year-old suspect in the deadly shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, made his first court appearance Friday. His father, who was arrested on second-degree murder charges in connection with the shooting, also appeared in court in a separate hearing. Authorities allege that the suspect's father gave his son the firearm that was used in the massacre as a gift in December 2023. Jericka Duncan reports.
The teenager accused of killing four people and injuring nine others in this week's mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia appeared in court Friday. CBS News national correspondent Dave Malkoff reports from Winder, Georgia, as the community mourns the victims.
Law enforcement officers in Winder, Georgia, were able to rapidly respond to Wednesday's shooting at Apalachee High School because of new technology. Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith says the district had given all teachers special new ID badges armed with panic buttons just one week ago. Abbey Clements, a teacher who co-founded Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence after surviving the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, joins to discuss what educators are up against.
For decades, the epidemic of school shootings seems to be something the U.S. has been unable to change. Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, became the site of the latest such tragedy, where four people were killed Wednesday. Jim Axelrod examines how school shootings seem to be a problem with no solution.
Miguel Perichi Orta describes the harrowing moments a gunman opened fired Wednesday morning at Apalachee High School in Georgia. The sophomore student recalls hiding under a table, where he says his thoughts turned to his family and whether he would make it out alive.
Two students and two students were killed in a shooting Wednesday morning at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. Sheriff Jud Smith spoke during an afternoon press conference. CBS News national correspondent Dave Malkoff reports.
Vice President Kamala Harris called the high school shooting in Georgia a "senseless tragedy" during a speech in New Hampshire, where she also unveiled new proposals to help small businesses. Former President Donald Trump reacted to the shooting on social media, saying, "Our hearts are with the victims." Trump is expected to lay out his economic plans on Thursday. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe has more.
At least four people were killed, including two students and two teachers, in a shooting at a high school in Winder, Georgia. The suspect, a 14-year-old student, is in custody and will be charged as an adult, officials said. CBS News' Jared Eggleston is on the scene.
All four victims were passengers on a Blue Line train as it was headed into the Forest Park terminal when they were shot shortly before 5:30 a.m.
The shooting appeared to be random, police said. The suspect was found on another train and police recovered a weapon.
At least five people were shot at New York City's West Indian American Day Parade on Monday, according to the NYPD. There is no active shooter and the shooting appeared to be an "intentional act," NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said at a press conference. Police are looking for a suspect.
Witnesses reported that a man used a front-end loader to ram cars, then fatally shot three women, before he was killed by a resident, police said.
Newly released police videos, 911 calls, and emails are retelling the story of the 2022 attack at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 students and two teachers. The release follows a lawsuit by CBS News and other media organizations after officials refused to make those records public. CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca has more.
A former police officer who responded to the 2022 elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has pleaded not guilty to all charges. A slow police response to the attack has been partially blamed for the deaths of 19 children and two teachers. CBS News Texas reporter Andrea Lucia has the latest.
Former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer Adrian Gonzales pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting. Gonzales is facing 29 counts, including some for putting minors in "imminent danger." CBS News Texas' Andrea Lucia reports.
"It was just a horrific scene that even seasoned officers told me it is the worst thing they've ever seen," the sheriff said.
A tree, located between the Trump rally shooter and the sniper team closest to him, may have impaired the team's line of sight, according to a CBS News analysis.
According to researchers, mass shooters in the U.S. tend to fit a specific profile. University professors Jillian Peterson and James Densley compiled a database of detailed life histories of 180 U.S. mass shooters to look for early warning signs. Peterson, executive director of the Violence Prevention Project Research Center, joins CBS News to break down her findings in the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
From July 1 to July 7, 340 people were killed and 756 were wounded for a total of 1,096 shooting victims across the U.S., according to the Gun Violence Archive.
Four people were killed and another three wounded in a shooting early Saturday morning during a pool party at a home in the northern Kentucky city of Florence. The suspect later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound following a police chase, authorities said.
Police said an adult was killed and eight other people, some of them teenagers, were hurt in a shooting in Philadelphia on July 4.
President Trump has targeted Chicago and other Democrat-led cities for expanded federal intervention.
At least 2.5 million students across the country are using Yondr pouches, as 35 states have laws or rules limiting cellphones in schools.
The Joe and Jill Biden Foundation, this past week, approved a 13-person governance board that is charged with steering the project.
Saturday's jackpot has an estimated cash value of $826.4 million, Powerball said.
For the second time in two days, Venezuela flew military aircraft in the vicinity of the USS Jason Dunham in international waters, multiple officials confirmed to CBS News.
Israel's army has urged Palestinians in Gaza City to move to a designated humanitarian area in the south. Meanwhile, an ailing Palestinian toddler recovers in Italy.
LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families participated in a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome on Saturday, celebrating a new level of acceptance in the Catholic Church.
Three people survived the incident and were rescued, and "a search is ongoing in the hope of finding the missing victims," an official said.
Aryna Sabalenka has won her fourth Grand Slam title overall and second straight at the U.S. Open after defeating Amanda Anisimova on Saturday.