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(CNN) — FBI gun background checks are on track for a record year.The bureau processed 19,827,376 requests sent to the National Instant Criminal Background Check Systems, or NICS, through Monday....

(CNN) — The shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino is the deadliest mass shooting in the United States since the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connec...

(CNN) — Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of the murder of Reeva Steenkamp after South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal overturned the previous conviction of culpable homicide. Judge E...

(CNN) — All 14 Republican presidential contenders will descend on Washington Thursday for a conference that was slated to focus on foreign policy but now comes in the shadow of another mass shoo...

(CNN) — British fighter jets targeted an oilfield held by ISIS in their first airstrikes in Syria, the British defense ministry said. Late Wednesday, U.K. lawmakers voted 397 to 223 in favor of ...

SAN BERNARDINO, CA — (CNN) Mass shootings such as the one Wednesday in San Bernardino, California, often produce initial reports of multiple gunmen, likely owing to the confusion and chaos that ...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) U.S. Capitol Police arrested a Senate employee at 7 a.m. Tuesday who had a loaded 9mm gun in a backpack as he went through security at the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The ...

SAN BERNARDINO — (CNN) The hunt for one to three suspects is taking place near a San Bernardino, California, center for people with developmental disabilities, where at least 14 people were kill...

 WASHINGTON — (CNN) U.S. special operations forces headed into Iraq and Syria may be given authorities to capture ISIS terrorists, and interrogate them for intelligence, even though there i...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Former Vice President Dick Cheney will be on Capitol Hill Thursday morning, where he’ll be confronting his legacy in more ways than just the marble bust of him being unv...