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A bipartisan group of senators overcame some last-minute hurdles and released legislative text Tuesday on a narrow set of provisions to combat gun violence, including state funding to implement “red flag” laws and enhanced background checks. “Today, we finalized bipartisan, commonsense legislation to protect America’s children, keep our schools safe, and reduce the threat of violence across our country,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and...

The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that they had filed 26 hate crime charges against the gunman suspected of killing 10 people in a racially-motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store.

In the wake of multiple mass shootings this year, thousands of people turned out across Massachusetts and the rest of the country Saturday to demand stronger gun control laws. Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park was filled with adults and children. These children grew up rehearsing active shooter drills. “My kid put her scissors in her pocket. Because she’s like, ‘I’m...

Some of the organizations that will be involved Saturday include the Massachusetts Teachers Association and the Louis D. Brown Institute — talking not only about mass shootings but gun violence that affects communities every day.

The first March for Our Lives was in 2018 in response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The 2022 events will follow the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and another at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

Thousands of people are expected to gather for events across Massachusetts and the rest of the country Saturday to demand stronger gun control laws in the wake of continued mass shootings across the country. The first March for Our Lives happened in 2018 in response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Justin Meszler was…

Zeneta Everhart, whose 21-year-old son Zaire Everhart was wounded in the Buffalo mass shooting, addressed lawmakers on Wednesday to demand new gun laws. “If hearing from me… does not move you to act on gun laws, I invite you to my home to help me clean Zaire’s wounds.”

An 11-year-old girl who survived the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, testified Wednesday about how she covered herself in her dead classmate’s blood and played dead to avoid being shot. It was the second day lawmakers heard wrenching testimony on the nation’s gun violence

Garnell Whitfield, Jr. delivered an emotional testimony Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, challenging Congress to act against the “cancer on white supremacy”

The son of an 86-year-old woman killed in the racist Buffalo mass shooting is calling on Congress to act against domestic terrorism.

In the wake of mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, Buffalo, New York, and other recent gun-violence incidents, Republican Gov. Charlie Baker issued a public plea to leaders in Washington, D.C., to look to Massachusetts as an example that bipartisan gun reform works. “Over decades in Massachusetts, Republicans and Democrats have worked together to enact several common sense gun reform...

The dispatcher shouted at an assistant office manager at Tops Friendly Market, asked why she was whispering and hung up, the employee said.

“After Columbine, after Sandy Hook, after Charleston, after Orlando, after Las Vegas, after Parkland, nothing has been done,” President Joe Biden said in a speech Thursday night. “This time, that can’t be true. This time, we must actually do something.”

President Joe Biden delivered an address to the country Thursday night, following the mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas. Here’s the full speech.

The suspect, who has been in custody since the May 14 shooting, is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Erie County Court

Vice President Kamala Harris gave a eulogy at the funeral of Ruth Whitfield, who was killed in the racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket. Whitfield was 86 and the oldest of the 10 people killed in the mass shooting.

A week filled with goodbyes continues for family and friends of victims of the racist attack on a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Funerals were held Friday for Geraldine Talley, Andre Mackniel and Margus Morrison. They are among the 10 people killed and three wounded May 14 when a white gunman opened fire on shoppers and employees at a Tops...

Two days after a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., blasted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ahead of the governor’s planned appearance at the National Rifle Association. “What a fraud… These families don’t want thoughts and prayers. They want their elected leaders to respond to their suffering.”

New York has some of the toughest state gun laws in the country, but even that wasn’t enough to stop a gunman from killing 10 shoppers at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, this month. In the wake of another mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, NBCLX storyteller Ngozi Ekeledo took a look at New York’s...

Buffalo Tops market shooting victim Aaron Salter Jr. is honored at what would’ve been his graduation ceremony at Canisius College