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Dayton James Webber has been accused of fatally shooting a passenger in the front seat of a car he was driving during an argument.

Quadruple amputee pro cornhole player fatally shoots man, authorities say

Dayton James Webber, 27, is facing murder charges after being accused of shooting a passenger in the front seat of a car that he was driving during an argument.

  • Audrey McAvoy

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Police search an area in Salem, New Hampshire, for the Brown University shooting suspect.

How an anonymous tipster cracked the US university shooting case

“John” is being hailed by police as the key figure who gave them the details needed to track down the suspected killer, who was found dead on Friday.

  • Kimberlee Kruesi
NRA poster

Bondi terrorist attack lobs a grenade into an already febrile world

American gun lobbyists quickly hijacked the Sydney massacre for their own political purposes, as did anti-immigration activists – in a harbinger of what’s to come.

  • Michael Koziol
Police find Luigi Mangione in a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania.

‘What’s your name?’ Moment police found Mangione eating McDonald’s after shooting

The restaurant manager called 911, concerned the customer sitting alone in a back corner resembled the man wanted over a brazen killing days earlier.

  • David Voreacos and Patricia Hurtado
Mark Bryant at his computer.

‘It’s 115 a day, almost every day’: Measuring America’s ‘insanely predictable’ crime

From his home office in Kentucky, a data and systems analyst tracks the grim totality of the country’s firearm incidents – and tallies some disturbing figures.

  • Liz Gooch
Police fear more victims may have perished in the blaze.

Trump condemns ‘targeted’ attack after Mormon church mass shooting

Police say the suspect rammed his vehicle through the church doors and fired on worshippers, killing at least four and injuring at least eight others.

  • Angus Thompson
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President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday September 25, 2025.

‘It’s going to get back to them’: Trump’s dark warning on political violence

The US president raised the spectre of retaliation against “the radical left” as officials said the latest shooting at an immigration facility in Texas was clearly an act of terrorism.

  • Michael Koziol
Jimmy Kimmel.

‘Ill-timed, insensitive’: Kimmel back on air after backlash over Charlie Kirk comments

American television network ABC will reinstate the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show after it was suspended over his on-air comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

  • Dawn Chmielewski
First responders work at the scene of the shooting in North Codurus.

Five Pennsylvania cops shot, three fatally, were ambushed by accused stalker

The shooting unfolded as officers sought to arrest a man on suspicion of stalking, prowling and trespassing in a rural part of the US state, authorities said.

  • Steve Gorman
Jimmy Kimmel.

Jimmy Kimmel show pulled by ABC in the US over Charlie Kirk assassination remarks

President Donald Trump celebrated after the Disney-owned network said it would stop airing the veteran late-night comic’s show.

  • Lisa Richwine and David Shepardson