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One person was wounded after a fight led to shots fired outside a Chicago O’Hare terminal Wednesday around 1:00 a.m. Shots rang out during the fight, leaving a 25-year-old man with two gunshot wounds to “the lower body,” NBC 5 reported. The wounded man was hospitalized in stable condition. The Chicago Sun-Times spoke with Mahmoud, an airport worker who witnessed the incident. Mahmoud said, “They start fighting, regular fighting, after that they [go] in the car, they bring the gun and then start shooting. After that, I hit the ground.” The Sun-Times noted that police found “several rifle rounds” at...

Four people were killed and at least 21 others injured when “multiple shots” erupted in a popular entertainment district of Birmingham, Alabama Saturday night as police assured they will “hunt down” those responsible. Birmingham Police said it was responding to the scene where “multiple people were shot with possibly multiple casualties just after 11 p.m. near 20th Street and Magnolia Ave. in Five Points South, a popular nightlife section of the city. The Five Points South area has numerous entertainment venues, restaurants and bars and often attracts large crowds on Saturday nights.

Turkey’s president has said that more than 1,000 members of Hamas are being treated in Turkish hospitals. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has railed against Israel since the outbreak of war, described Hamas as “a resistance organisation”. “So many Hamas members have been killed. The whole of the West is attacking them with all sorts of arms and munitions,” he said. “Calling Hamas ... a terrorist organisation would be cruel,” Mr Erdogan said, adding that it was a “very important” question. Hamas is classed as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the United States and the European Union, among others. It is...

Eighteen people were wounded and two were killed after a fight led to shots being fired Sunday morning during Tampa, Florida, Halloween celebrations. The Tampa Bay Times reported that the shots rang out about 3 a.m. Sunday morning, wounding 19 and killing one.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky headed to Staten Island University Hospital on Monday to visit his country’s wounded soldiers after he landed in the Big Apple for this week’s United Nations General Assembly.Zelensky thanked Ukrainian fighters receiving treatment at the hospital and even helped one soldier out of his wheelchair and to his feet as the two took a photo together.

The United States government estimates that approximately 500,000 soldiers in the Ukrainian and Russian militaries have been killed or wounded on the battlefield to date. Shockingly, the real numbers are surely dramatically higher as both nations are known to deliberately undercount their casualties. Sorrowfully, those numbers don’t include the thousands of Ukrainian civilians killed or the millions who have fled the country.

Three people were wounded Monday night when a suspect opened fire around 11:50 in gun-free Times Square. NBC 4 reported that there was an argument between “a teen” and three others, when the teen eventually opened fire. A 15-year-old, 17-year-old, and one other teen were wounded by gunfire.

One person was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting in a chic Manhattan neighborhood Saturday night, police said. Police responded to a 911 call of shots fired in front of 541 West 25 S. between 10th and 11th avenues in Chelsea just after 10:15 p.m., cops said. At the scene, police found three people with gunshot wounds.

US soldiers have been wounded in rocket attacks in eastern Syria tonight... "A new Republican leader in the Senate should be picked immediately!"- President Donald Trump Statement Wednesday 8/24/2022... In Uvalde, Texas this evening the school board voting to fire Police Chief Pete Arredondo... "It's time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. It's the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down" The woman that spoke those words last summer the Republican Governor of Alabama Kay Ivey over COVID vaccinations. Today reporters with questions for Governor Ivey about her health... In the Australian state of Queensland 900...

Vice President Kamala Harris felt "belittled" and "wounded" by the cover photo of her that Vogue selected for its February 2021 issue and dispatched a top aide to complain to Anna Wintour, a forthcoming book reportedly says. Politico's West Wing Playbook newsletter on Tuesday published excerpts of "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future" by the New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, set to be released in May, that detailed Harris' reaction to the controversial Vogue cover.

Former President Trump said this weekend that former Vice President Mike Pence has been "mortally wounded" by allowing the congressional certification of the 2020 election results. "I was disappointed in one thing, but it was a big thing," Trump said during a ticketed event in Sunrise, Fla., on Saturday, according to CNN. "Mike should have sent those crooked votes back to the legislatures and you would have had a different result in the election, in my opinion," the former President told the audience at the stop on Bill O'Reilly's "History Tour."

Several people have been wounded and a suspected gunman is in custody following a shooting at a Michigan high school on Tuesday. Authorities responded to reports of an active shooting at Oxford High School at 12:55 p.m., according to local media reports. The shooter was detained at the scene in Oxford, about 30 miles north of Detroit, the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said. Between four and six people were injured in the shooting. It is unclear if the victims were shot or suffered other injuries in the ordeal.

President Joe Biden traveled to Walter Reed hospital Friday to visit some of the wounded members of the Armed Forces. “These kids are amazing. And thank God there’s not as many people to visit,” Biden said to reporters as he left the White House to board Marine One for the trip.

A terrorist who attacked a police officer in Jerusalem's Old City has died of wounds suffered when he was neutralized by the officer. The officer has been sent to Shaare Zedek Hospital with light ...

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The parents of the soldier seriously wounded during the shooting attack in Givat Assaf last week ask the public to pray for their son. Netanel Felber was the third soldier in the shooting that killed Yosef Cohen and Yuval Mor Yosef and has been fighting for his life ever since.

Memorial Day weekend proved even bloodier than last year in Chicago. At least eight people were killed and 25 others wounded in shootings across the city since midnight Friday, police told WLS. Last year, over the entire weekend of the unofficial start of summer, seven people were killed and 45 others were hurt. The victims, WLS reported, include China Marie Lyons-Upshaw, who was shot in the chest while playing with a gun; Bobbieana Lyons, 20, a young mother shot and killed on her doorstep while celebrating her 2-year-old’s birthday; and a 31-year-old man shot twice in the chest and once...

The emergency room at Northwestern Memorial Hospital was packed with flu patients when Caleb Stevens hobbled through the doors on crutches one evening in January, his leg pulsing with pain from a week-old gunshot wound. The clerk at the intake desk was unfazed when Stevens said he had been wounded in Syria. She took his passport and told him to join the rest of the people in the waiting room. So he sat with his mom for 20 minutes, his right leg wrapped in a cast, a splint and bloody bandages. He was still wearing a red-and-white Christmas sock someone...

Tomi Lahren: Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo press conference quote. I'm telling you, where there is smoke there is fire. "This person may have radicalized unbeknownst to us, and we want to identify that source," the Sheriff told reporters, but offered no further details.

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