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| After shooting, angry Obama blasts U.S. gun politics | |  By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama angrily said on Thursday America had made a "political choice" to allow mass shootings like the one in Oregon to occur and blasted the National Rifle Association (NRA)lobby group for blocking reform of U.S. gun laws. Appearing in the White House briefing room with a grim expression and a frustrated tone, Obama challenged U.S. voters of all political stripes to hold their leaders accountable if they wanted to prevent such tragedies from happening again. "This is a political choice that we make, to allow this to happen every few months in America," Obama told reporters after the latest shooting at a community college in an Oregon town in which nine people were killed before police fatally shot the gunman.
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| Gunman kills 9 at Oregon college, dies in shootout with police | |  By Courtney Sherwood and Eric M. Johnson ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) - A gunman stalked onto a college campus in southwestern Oregon on Thursday and opened fire, killing nine people and wounding seven before police shot him to death, authorities said, in yet another burst of U.S. gun violence that ranked as the deadliest this year. The suspect, who witnesses say fired dozens of shots into a classroom full of screaming students, was slain in an exchange of gunfire with two police officers in Snyder Hall at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg following the morning rampage.
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| Burkina Faso coup leader handed over to government - sources | |  By Mathieu Bonkoungou and Nadoun Coulibaly OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - The leader of a short-lived coup in Burkina Faso, General Gilbert Diendere, was handed over to authorities on Thursday after seeking refuge in the Vatican embassy, sources in the transitional government said on Thursday. Diendere, a former spy chief, was at the head of a week-long power-grab by Burkina Faso's powerful presidential guard last month, during which the interim president and prime minister were held hostage. "He has been handed over to Burkinabe authorities," said a judicial source close to the transitional government.
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| U.S. lawmakers push measures to influence Iran nuclear deal | | | By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two weeks after efforts to kill the Iran nuclear deal failed in the U.S. Congress, lawmakers were still developing legislation on Thursday seeking to influence, or undermine, the international agreement. The House of Representatives voted 251 to 173 on Thursday for a measure that would bar President Barack Obama from waiving any sanctions on Iran under the pact until $40 billion has been paid to Americans deemed to be victims of Iranian-backed terrorism. The measure passed the Republican-led House largely along party lines, with Republicans in favor and Obama's fellow Democrats opposed. |
| Marijuana coming next year to your local pharmacy - in Uruguay | | | By Malena Castaldi MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Marijuana pioneer Uruguay said on Thursday it had granted licenses to two companies to grow the plant for commercial distribution, adding that the pot should go on sale in pharmacies next year. The South American country was the world's first to legalize the cultivation and distribution of marijuana, aiming to wrest control of the trade from drug gangs while regulating and even taxing its consumption. "Twenty-two proposals were presented ... and two licenses for production and distribution were given out," Juan Andrés Roballo, head of the National Drug Board, told a news conference. |
| L.A. prosecutors reviewing evidence against Bill Cosby | |  By Daina Beth Solomon LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles prosecutors are reviewing sexual assault evidence against Bill Cosby, a county official said Thursday, pushing forward a case that could result in the first criminal charges against the comedian. Model Chloe Goins, 24, brought allegations to Los Angeles police that Cosby had drugged and assaulted her in 2008 when she was aged 18, at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles. Los Angeles County District Attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison said the sex crimes division is reviewing the material handed over Wednesday by detectives who were investigating Goins's case.
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| Factbox: Major shooting incidents in the United States | | | Below are some of the worst shooting incidents in recent years, ranked by the number of dead: Virginia Tech April 16, 2007 - A gunman slaughters 32 people and himself at Virginia Tech, a university in Blacksburg, Virginia. Columbine April 20, 1999 - Two heavily armed teenagers go on a rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, shooting 12 students and a teacher and wounding more than 20 others before taking their own lives. Colorado movie theater July 20, 2012 - A masked gunman kills 12 people and wounds 70 when he opens fire on moviegoers at a midnight premiere of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, a Denver suburb. |
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