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| Democrats link guns to terrorism, turn to gun control after Orlando | |  By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama lamented the ease with which extremists can get firearms in the United States as "crazy" and Hillary Clinton said "terrorists" were using assault weapons to kill Americans, as Democrats on Monday renewed an uphill push for gun control after the Orlando massacre. The worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, in which 49 people at a gay nightclub were killed and 53 wounded, reignited a debate in Washington over what types of guns should not be easily available and what types of buyers ought to be prohibited. The No. 3 Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer of New York, and other Democrats said they would try as early as this week to get votes on a measure preventing people on "terror watch lists" and other "suspected terrorists" from buying firearms or explosives.
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| Trump fights release of video testimony in fraud case | |  By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday filed court papers opposing the release of video showing him being questioned under oath about his Trump University series of real estate seminars. The video is "unnecessary, irrelevant and unjustified," lawyers for Trump wrote in court papers filed in federal court in San Diego. Trump may also have concerns about the impact the videos could have outside the courtroom.
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| Trump urges ban on immigration from countries with 'history of terrorism' | |  By Ginger Gibson and Steve Holland WASHINGTON/MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Monday that he would suspend immigration to the United States from countries "where there is a proven history of terrorism" against the United States, his strongest reaction yet to the Orlando nightclub massacre. Democratic rival Hillary Clinton warned against demonising Muslim Americans, offering a starkly different approach to national security as the two candidates clashed in speeches reacting to the slayings at a gay nightclub in which 49 people and the gunman were killed and 53 were wounded. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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| FBI's Comey - Orlando shooter claimed connection to multiple groups | |  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The gunman responsible for killing 49 people at a Florida nightclub claimed a connection to or support for multiple Islamist extremist groups, including al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, al-Nusra and Islamic State, FBI Director James Comey told reporters on Monday. Speaking to a 911 dispatcher during the siege at the Orlando, Florida, nightclub, Mateen expressed solidarity with an al-Nusra suicide bomber as well as the Islamic State.
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| U.S. firearm makers' shares jump after Orlando shooting | |  Smith & Wesson Holding Corp's shares rose as much as 11.6 percent, while those of Sturm Ruger & Co Inc jumped 10.7 percent. A man armed with an assault rifle and pledging loyalty to Islamic State killed 50 people during a gay pride celebration at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida early on Sunday. The rampage, by New York-born Florida resident Omar Mateen, was denounced by President Barack Obama, who had previously blasted Congressional inaction on gun control.
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| Three Mexicans killed in Orlando shooting, Mexican president says | | | Three people of Mexican origin were among the 49 killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Monday. In a separate statement, Mexico's foreign ministry said the three were Mexican nationals and said it was trying to confirm with U.S. authorities if a fourth Mexican was among those killed. "This is an act truly filled with horror, terror and hatred," Pena Nieto said. |
| U.S. investigates whether gunman acted alone in nightclub massacre | |  By Letitia Stein and Jarrett Renshaw ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Monday investigated whether a gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando and declared his allegiance to Islamic State militants had received any help in carrying out the massacre. The FBI and other agencies were looking at evidence inside and on the closed-off streets around the Pulse nightclub, where New York-born Omar Mateen perpetrated the worst mass murder in U.S. history, and the deadliest attack on U.S. soil since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Mateen, 29, the son of Afghan immigrants, was shot and killed by police who stormed the club with armoured cars early Sunday morning after a three-hour siege.
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| Thousands attend London vigil to mourn Orlando shooting victims | |  Thousands of people held a two-minute silence at a vigil in London's Soho neighbourhood on Monday to remember the victims of a massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. At least 49 people were killed and 53 others were wounded at the Pulse nightclub on Sunday before the gunman, who had pledged loyalty to Islamic State, was shot dead by police. London Mayor Sadiq Khan was in attendance.
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| Russians ready for 'ultra-violent' action involved in Euro 2016 clashes | |  European football's governing body, UEFA, said it was "disgusted" by melees inside and outside the stadium in Marseille - where the English and Russian sides played on Saturday - and has threatened to expel both teams from the championship if the violence persists. "There were 150 Russian supporters who in reality were hooligans," Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin told a news conference.
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| Victim's last Snapchat starts with dancing, ends in gunfire | |  (Editor's note: this story has content that may upset some readers) By Angela Moon NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amanda Alvear's last Snapchat video post begins with a shot of her on the dance floor of an Orlando nightclub surrounded by friends. Alvear, 25, was identified by police on Monday as one of the 49 people killed by a gunman at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Alvear's friend Mercedez Flores, 26, who worked for Target, also was on the list of 46 named victims released so far by the Orlando Police Department.
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| U.S. urges United Nations to unite for gay rights | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States appealed on Monday for the United Nations to unite to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, not just express outrage over a massacre in a Florida nightclub on Sunday in which 49 people were killed. Being gay is a crime in at least 74 countries, the U.N. has said. "If we are united in our outrage by the killing of so many - and we are - let us be equally united around the basic premise of upholding the universal dignity of all persons regardless of who they love, not just around condemning the terrorists who kill them," Deputy U.S. Ambassador David Pressman said A shooter pledging allegiance to the radical group Islamic State carried out the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history on Sunday at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
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| Orlando shooter is example of homegrown extremism - Obama | |  By Timothy Gardner and Alana Wise WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday there was no clear evidence that the shooter in Sunday's massacre in Orlando, Florida, was directed by a larger terrorist network. "It appears that the shooter was inspired by various extremist information that was disseminated over the internet," the president told reporters in the Oval Office after a briefing by senior officials including Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey. "As far as we can tell right now, this is certainly an example of the kind of homegrown extremism that all of us have been so concerned about for a very long time," Obama said.
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| Orlando shooter may have been inspired by foreign terrorists - FBI | |  FBI Director James Comey said on Monday there were "strong indications" Orlando nightclub attacker Omar Mateen had been radicalized in part through the internet but federal authorities still are working to determine his exact motives. Comey, speaking at a Justice Department news conference, also promised a thorough review of the FBI's own handling of Mateen, who had been monitored and questioned by agents who ultimately concluded they had no case against him. Mateen, 29, the U.S.-born son of Afghan immigrants, went on a shooting rampage at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, killing 49 people and wounding some 53 others before being killed by police who stormed the building.
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