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Declassified: Chinese official said at least 10,000 civilians died in 1989 Tiananmen massacre, documents show A member of the Chinese State Council estimated that at least 10,000 civilians were killed in the Tiananmen massacre of June 4, 1989, declassified files reveal. Alan Donald, Britain’s ambassador when the Chinese government sent tanks into Tiananmen square to quell the student-led protests, sent telegrams to the foreign office on June 5, a day after the massacre. He said a person – whose name was redacted from the document – passed along the information from an unnamed member of the State Council. The documents...

More than two months have passed since 58 country music fans were gunned down in the Las Vegas massacre, and survivors as well as victims' families are still searching for some semblance of closure.

A man armed with a rifle walked into the First Baptist Church of Southerland Springs, Texas, Nov. 5 and killed 26 congregants, fleeing in an SUV after exchanging shots with a church neighbor.The neighbor, retired NRA instructor Stephen Willeford, and Johnnie Langendorff have been named heroes after the tragedy. Willeford shot the gunman and caused him to flee, while Langendorff drove his truck about 95 miles per hour in a high speed chase to catch the killer.In honor of the Texas heroes and the 2nd amendment that secures the right for good people to carry guns, The Daily Caller News...

The pastor of the tiny Texas church where a madman massacred 26 people and wounded 24 last Sunday wants the building torn down.“The pastor expressed his desire that perhaps the best way forward is to have the church demolished and replaced with a prayer garden,” Southern Baptist Convention spokesman Roger “Sing” Oldham, told USA Today.The Southern Baptist Convention’s president and CEO of the executive committee, Frank Page, and SBC President Steve Gaines confirmed the church will be razed, Religion News Service reported. The decision came after meeting with the Sutherland Springs pastor Frank Pomeroy, whose 14-year-old daughter, Annabelle, was killed during the...

Once again, the cries for gun control measures that wouldn’t have stopped the shooter are being heard. Yet once again, it was a good guy with a gun that in this case pursued the killer in a chase that resulted in death, preventing further deaths and saving lives. Once again, we hear cries that the good guy with the gun should be disarmed. If a good guy with a gun had been inside the First Baptist Church, the killer could have been blown away and we might not be having this conversation. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton pointed out what...

The Wilson County sheriff says up to 14 of the victims were children out of the 26 people confirmed dead. One family lost three generations of members during the Sutherland Springs tragedy. More as updates come in.

Triangular Trade: In the Caribbean, ships loaded up with sugar and molasses and took it to Europe for distillation into rum. There, they loaded up on manufactured goods like guns, nails and shackles and headed to Africa, where they picked up slaves. Loaded up in Africa they returned to the labor-hungry new world with the slaves, a synergistic international route: Were Paddock brothers pulling off something similar..? Brother Steve had plenty of money but the sources remained opaque; was he really a gambler who proved successful over the very long-term..? It's technically possible but dubious. Today Bruce Paddock was...

A laptop computer recovered from the Las Vegas hotel room where Stephen Paddock launched the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was missing its hard drive, depriving investigators of a potential key source of information on why he killed and maimed so many people, ABC News has learned.

After reviewing real-time transcripts and audio from the Las Vegas Metro Police Department, along with Firefighters; it is shocking to realize the Las Vegas massacre was a mass shooting event with multiple shooters. Not long after real-time audio events between the police and firefighters, the mainstream news media began a false narrative that Stephen Paddock was a “lone wolf.” Although civilians and police officers alike were eye witnesses reporting multiple shooters on the ground, the “handlers” leaped over actual eye witness reports to establish a fictitious narrative that would dominate mainstream news media. The media was obviously sent orders to...

The Mandalay Bay security guard who disappeared last week moments before he was scheduled to break his silence in television interviews has not been heard from since he went to a walk-in health clinic, his union president said. A spokesperson at the UMC Quick Care, which has eight locations throughout the Las Vegas area, told Fox News on Monday that they had "heard nothing" about Campos visiting them. Hickey said he was meeting with MGM officials Thursday afternoon in the hours before Campos’ scheduled television appearances, including one with Fox News. But when the meeting ended, Campos had fled. Hickey...

I think the path to the truth in the Las Vegas massacre is becoming free of roadblocks…at least for me. Report – FBI wiping eyewitness computers clean. Report – Jesus Campos, wounded security guard at Mandalay Resort, and family silenced by gag order. Report – Between time of Las Vegas shooting and now – Bill HR 3999 introduced -open door to the Second Amendment. Conclusion – Stephen Paddock linked to Deep State all of his life. My bottom line theory just came together with the introduction of Bill HR 3999 yesterday. It opens the door to the 2nd Amendment, and...

Authorities revised the timeline of mass shooter Stephen Paddock's actions leading up to the deadliest mass shooting in American history. Parent company of the Mandalay Bay, the hotel in which Paddock perched during the shooting, questioned the new timeline, which says Paddock shot a hotel guard minutes before the mass shooting itself. The new account opens the possibility that the attack may have been mitigated or prevented altogether. A day after authorities revised the timeline of events on the night of the Las Vegas mass shooting, the hotel where the gunman was staying is casting doubt on the changes. Police...

A university professor in Las Vegas was filmed in class this week suggesting President Trump deserves some blame for the city’s shooting massacre because “all he’s done” is “encourage violence.” “Right when he got elected, I told my classes, three semesters ago, that some of us won’t be affected by this presidency, but others are going to die,” UNLV history professor Tessa Winkelmann said Thursday, according to video obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “Other people will die because of this. And we’ve seen this happen, right?” Winkelmann cited Trump’s comments threatening military action against North Korea and argued “words,...

Las Vegas hotels are rethinking security protocols after a guest brought dozens of guns into his room at Mandalay Bay

Las Vegas Strip mass murderer Stephen Paddock used his Mandalay Bay hotel room to spray massive aviation fuel tanks with bullets Sunday night, a knowledgeable source told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The bullets left holes, but did not penetrate the two circular white tanks, sparing the nearby Route 91 Harvest country music festival from a potentially massive explosion, the source said Wednesday. The tanks are roughly 1,100 feet from the concert site, where Paddock killed 58 people and wounded almost 500.

A former FBI Special Agent says the profile of Las Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock is not easily deciphered. “This is not traditional,” said the agent, David Couvertier, who interrogated numerous suspects during his lengthy FBI career. Paddock’s ability to seal himself off is the first clue. Couvertier said Paddock’s career working in the postal service and IRS is telling, also. Paddock had an uncomfortable childhood being moved from place to place by his Father, who was on the FBI’s MOST WANTED LIST. It must been have been lonely existence for the young man. Paddock grew up to be a millionaire...

Tomi Lahren: Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo press conference quote. I'm telling you, where there is smoke there is fire. "This person may have radicalized unbeknownst to us, and we want to identify that source," the Sheriff told reporters, but offered no further details.

A federal judge today dismissed the wrongful death civil lawsuit brought by Branch Davidians, clearing the government of any wrongdoing in the deaths of about 80 members of the religious sect during the disastrous 1993 standoff at the group's compound near Waco, Tex. The judge, Walter Smith Jr. of Federal District Court in Waco, issued an order that found that federal agents had acted legally and could not be held liable for the deaths. His ruling ended a legal battle that lasted nearly seven years and came after an advisory jury in the case and a special counsel, former Senator...

Once again, the big downside of American freedom is on gruesome display. A psychotic gunman in Las Vegas has committed the worst mass murder in U. S. history. 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, who lived in Nevada, began firing from a hotel window about 10pm Pacific time last night. His targets were folks attending a music festival below him. When it was all over, more than 50 human beings lay dead, 400 plus wounded. Paddock apparently killed himself as police closed in on him. The murderer had a number of deadly weapons in his room and you can count on the gun...

<p>A retired accountant opened fire from a hotel room above a packed outdoor concert in Las Vegas, killing at least 59, wounding 527 more and triggering a stampede as the panicked crowd scrambled for cover amid the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.</p>