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Police are investigating a mass shooting at a Kroger grocery store in Collierville, Tenn., on Thursday, which left at least 14 victims injured and another dead. The suspect, who open-fired in a Kroger in the Memphis suburb, died of self-inflected gunshot wounds.

Mass shootings have become tragically common in the U.S. But authorities and experts still struggle to pinpoint exactly how common they are. That is because there is no universal standard for what constitutes a mass shooting. We explain the differing definitions, and why they make the problem of gun crime harder to solve, in this installment of LXplanation.

When we hear a news report about an “active shooter,” it triggers an emotional response. But what exactly do the police and FBI mean when they refer to an active shooter? In this installment of LXplanation, we define a term that has become all too common as mass shootings and gun crime have surged in the U.S.

A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Air Force is mostly responsible for a former serviceman killing more than two dozen people at a Texas church in 2017 because it failed to submit his criminal history into a database, which should have prevented him from purchasing firearms.

June marks the fifth anniversary of a mass shooting that killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The tragedy rocked the nation, and devastated the LGBTQ and South Florida communities. In this special, Telemundo Orlando takes a closer look at what has changed five years later. (Video en español. Subtitles in English.)

At least two of the victims are in critical condition and there is no suspect in custody.

Police in Austin have arrested one suspect and are searching for another after a mass shooting on a crowded downtown street in which 14 people were wounded

Authorities in Texas arrested a man accused of plotting to carry out a mass shooting at a Walmart, and a search of the suspect’s home turned up firearms, ammunition and materials officials described as “radical ideology paraphernalia.”

Three shooters targeted a crowd outside a banquet hall early Sunday morning, police said.

Law enforcement had just done an active shooter drill at a rail yard in San Jose before a shooter opened fire and killed nine people Wednesday. NBC Bay Area reporter Kris Sanchez is covering the scene as the story hits close to home. “We take VTA as a family on occasion, and so just knowing that these are our neighbors...

A gunman who killed nine people at a California rail yard fired 39 shots and appeared to target some of the victims, a sheriff told The Associated Press on Thursday.

California Governor Gavin Newsom spoke at the scene of Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Jose, Calif., to condemn the deaths of 8 victims at a workplace murder-suicide. “Pick a state. And here we are, in the United States of America, where we’re experiencing something that is not experienced anywhere else in the world. There’s a sameness to this.”

A third person has died from injuries suffered in a “targeted attack” at a birthday party at a South Jersey house that left at least two others dead and 11 more wounded.

Authorities filed charges Monday against four people they allege initiated a shootout in Rhode Island that left nine people injured last week. Ricardo Cosme Tejada, 20, Jordanny Britto, 20, Reynaldo Rivera, 19, and George Rios, 18, each face several charges including assault with a deadly weapon and using a firearm while committing a crime of violence, according to the state…

Nine people are injured after a mass shooting in Providence, Rhode Island.

Nine people were wounded Thursday in Rhode Island’s capital in what police believe to be the largest shooting in city history.

Nine people were injured Thursday in Providence, Rhode Island, in what police believe to be the largest shooting in city history. Multiple guns were used in a shootout in which some 50 shots were fired just before 7 p.m. Thursday involving an “ongoing feud” between two groups known to authorities, according to Providence Police Chief Col. Hugh T. Clements. A…

A shooting police believe to be the largest in the history of Providence, Rhode Island, left nine people injured Thursday.

The only survivor of the mass shooting at an Orange office building in March that left four people, including her 9-year-old son, dead was released Wednesday from the hospital.