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Forensic analysis suggests that as many as three weapons were fired at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.The FBI said Sunday that the shooter acted alone.The first three shots were consistent with alleged weapon A, the next five were consistent with alleged weapon B, and the final “acoustic impulse” was emitted by a possible weapon C, per audio analysis by Catalin Grigoras, director of the National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado in Denver, and Cole Whitecotton, Senior Professional Research Associate at the same institution.Audio analysis has also confirmed that the gunman was about 360...

Anxious families of some of 11 Egyptians who failed to show up for studies at an American university said Thursday that the students may have decided to try to look for work and live in the United States. The students' failure to show up for their monthlong study program at Montana State University prompted a police hunt for the 11, though U.S. authorities said they had no indication there was a terrorism threat from any of the 11. Three of them were taken into custody or turned themselves in this week -- one in Minnesota, the other two in New...

One of 11 missing Egyptian students has been picked up in Minneapolis, Minn., NBC News’ Pete Williams reported and the FBI confirmed Wednesday. Local police in New Jersey also believe they have apprehended two more of the Egyptian students. Federal agents, however, have not yet confirmed the identities of these students. Eslam Ibrahim Mohamed El-Dessouki, 21, was arrested "without incident" by FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko said. El-Dessouki is being held on an administrative immigration violation because he did not turn up for his monthlong exchange program at Montana State University, Kolko...

The girl with dark hair falling down to her waist smiled for her graduation photo, looking a lot like any other student about to graduate from Montana State University. She and her mom laughed as they tried to figure out which end of the black cap goes in front. Mom secured the mortarboard with bobby pins to keep it from flying away in the breeze. Then they posed together, touching foreheads. Mom smiled and looked right in her serious girl's eyes and said how very, very proud she was of her daughter. She may look like any other student about...

Girls For A Change, a group of Bozeman High School girls, have been busy creating an educational and inspirational one-day conference for high school-age girls and actress/activist Jane Fonda has agreed to be the keynote speaker. The conference will be held Saturday, Feb. 12, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Montana State University Strand Union Building. "Opening Doors" is designed to help girls build a future in which they are economically self-sufficient and successful in all aspects of their lives -- personal, academic, and professional lives. The planning committee's invitation to Fonda to be the keynote speaker "elicited...

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- Montana State point guard Frank Brown was arrested Tuesday morning on rape charges and was jailed on $20,000 bail. Brown, 20, of Las Vegas, is charged with three counts of rape for having sex with a 15-year-old girl three times within the past week. The age of legal consent in Montana is 16.