The scene after a mass shooting Thursday night at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis. (Video: The Post; photo: Indianapolis Star/AP)
Police said the gunman also wounded at least four others late Thursday before killing himself. The incident marks the fifth mass shooting in the United States in as many weeks.
The Covax initiative aims to help developing countries, with the easy-to-store AstraZeneca vaccine as the centerpiece.
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has support from about 30 percent of the population. (AP)
The coronavirus has been killing as many as 4,200 people per day in Brazil, but just enough people support President Jair Bolsonaro and his contrarian coronavirus positions to undo virtually any attempt at containment, and few see any real chance of removing him from office anytime soon.
Caught in an unflattering national spotlight, residents of Windsor hope something better can come from an ugly police encounter.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) said she has “no plans to bring it to the floor” and that she supports a commission created by President Biden that will produce a report this year on possible changes to the court.
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Criticism of King Abdullah II’s leadership is growing. At the same time, he is trying to quash dissent.
The Biden administration Thursday imposed a substantial slate of economic sanctions on Russia. The move came as little surprise.
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Before he was brutally killed by racists at 14, Emmett Till had sometimes been cared for by the mother of Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, who was shot to death by police. There are also connections between Daunte Wright and George Floyd and between Caron Nazario and Eric Garner.
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Two dozen deaths occurred, and Raleigh was placed under a “tornado emergency.”
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Three District teenagers, each 18, plead guilty to day-long spree of eight armed carjackings in Oct.
Teens have driven a brutal 140-percent spike in carjackings in the District, even before March’s unrelated fatal attack on a food delivery driver.
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American Airlines will begin service Tuesday out of the new addition — a prospect that will delight travelers, including prominent lawmakers who had to wait in the same dim space before riding a shuttle bus to catch flights.
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Nearly 200 department stores have disappeared in the past year, and another 800 — or about half the country’s remaining mall-based locations — are expected to shutter by the end of 2025, according to one real estate firm.
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