Connecticut lawmakers announced a deal on Monday on what they called some of the toughest gun laws in the country that were proposed after the December mass shooting in the state. This announcement followed three grueling months for families and friends connected to the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
The United States deployed stealth fighter jets to South Korea on Sunday as part of an ongoing joint military exercises between the two countries. The F-22 Raptors were sent to the main U.S. Air Force Base in South Korea amid rising tension - and bellicose language- from Kim Jong-un in the North.
The New York City medical examiner said it has started sifting construction debris from the World Trade Center site in an effort to find any human remains from the 9/11 terrorist attacks where over 2,750 people died. Thus far, 1,634 have been identified. The work began Monday, and is expected to continue for about 10 Weeks on Staten Island.
An Alaska State Trooper helicopter carrying a trooper, a pilot for the agency and a rescued snowmobiler crashed in the south-central part of the state, leaving all three aboard feared dead. The trooper helicopter was on a mission to pick up a snowmobiler stranded near Larson Lake 7 miles east of Talkeetna in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
