Gun Violence

The firearm homicide rate in the U.S. surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching its highest level in the country since 1994, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During the pandemic,…

A high school teacher has gone viral in the wake of the Nashville school shooting after sharing the unexpected piece of equipment now found in many US classrooms. Larry Lexicon teaches in California where portable toilets were placed into…

Three children and three adults were killed following a mass shooting at Covenant School in Nashville's Green Hills neighborhood on Monday morning, officials said.The shooter, who was fatally shot by police, was identified as…

Katrina Brees credits her love of art to her whimsical, talented mother. For more than a decade, the two worked side-by-side producing parades in New Orleans. Her fond memories of her mom include "just her dancing in a parade, just…

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) (L) and Rep. George Santos (R-New York) are two of the three ... Co-Sponsors of a bill, H.R.1095, introduced by Rep. Barry Moore (R-Alabama) that would declare the AR-15 style rifle the “National Gun…

LOS ANGELES —  The man who shot dead Grammy-winning rapper Nipsey Hussle on a Los Angeles street in 2019 was jailed for at least 60 years Wednesday. Eric Holder had not denied killing Hussle -- a fast-rising star whose death sent…

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The U.S. Marshals office picked up a man Sunday morning in connection with the fatal shooting of a Temple University police officer. The suspect, 18-year-old Miles Pfeffer, was arrested in Buckingham Township,…

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is pushing for answers about the unidentified objects that have been shot down by the U.S. military in recent weeks. Rubio, the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee and a senior…

A team from the New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine in partnership with the Robert ... Wood Johnson Foundation just launched the Congressional District Health Dashboard (CDHD), pictured here. (Image: Courtesy of Sasha…

The use of ghost guns — homemade firearms that can be built from parts bought online or with 3D printers — in U.S. crimes has risen more than 1,000% since 2017, the Department of Justice said in a federal report released Wednesday.…