20-year-old gunman Adam Lanza acted alone and did not conspire with anyone when he killed his mother in their home before killing 26 children and teachers and himself at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut

Secretary of State John Kerry has helped to engineer an interim deal with Iran, and has been called "the most significant level of cooperation between the U.S. and [their counterparts] in decades and it could impact the remainder of his tenure."

26-year-old Tyson Jerome Barnette, a U.S. postal worker in Landover, Maryland, was shot and killed while on his route, according to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, as reported by ABC News. Barnette was found last Saturday suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene when police arrived.