After the Connecticut school shooting: the search for blame. Media bosses say it’s not on-screen violence that’s the problem, as they meet vice president Biden for talks on America’s gun culture.
A gunman who lured volunteer firefighters to his home in upstate New York before shooting them dead, was an ex-convict who had killed his grandmother.
Matt Frei
The Newtown massacre has produced a watershed. Because when you combine an 18th century rationale for bearing arms with a 21st obsession with violence in video games, films and online, you’re in trouble.
Rich and powerful, it holds Congress in its sway. But after the murder of 20 young children in Newtown, Connecticut, can the gun lobby still hold out against more stringent controls?
Matt Frei
America is deep in shock and mourning after the massacre of twenty children and eight adults at a Connecticut school. A tearful president has promised urgent action: but what can he do?
“Evil visited this community today”, Connecticut’s governor told a nation traumatised by the slaughter of children. A tearful President Obama has promised “meaningful action” on guns.
Twenty children are among 27 dead after a gunman opens fire at a primary school in Connecticut, US.
Police blame a dispute between two former colleagues for a fatal shooting outside New York’s Empire State Building which shocked tourists and created chaos around the tourist attraction.
President Obama has called for more gun controls after the Colorado cinema massacre left twelve people dead -but activists say they want concrete action to prevent more violence.
Colorado police are still grappling with possible motives as to why James Eagan Holmes, a middle-class 24-year-old neuroscience student, may have killed 12 cinema-goers watching a Batman film.
While the US accuses Russia of supplying Syrian attack helicopters, the Pentagon defends its own $1bn deal with the same Moscow arms dealer.
The parents of the murdered black American teenager Trayvon Martin have come to Britain to meet the family of Stephen Lawrence, and visit the spot where he was murdered in 1993.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others who say they planned the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington appear in a military court charged with murdering 2,976 people.
George Zimmerman made a brief appearance on the stand at his bail hearing in Florida – as the judge agreed to set a $150,000 bond for him to get out of jail.
George Zimmerman, who shot unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, appears in court today to face charges of second degree murder. Now his lawyer says he is concerned about getting a fair trial.
