AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Supreme Court To Decide Blockbuster Cases Soon
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
shootings
Report: Accused Killer Raymond Davis Was CIA Spy in Pakistan
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsIt started out suspiciously: An all-American-looking man in a plaid shirt and jeans pulled a Glock pistol on two motorcyclists last month in Pakistan, police said, shooting them dead in the street in broad daylight. Initial reports had Raymond Davis firing his gun in self-defense during a robbery attempt. But then police searched his car and found multiple guns, cell phones, infrared lights and survival gear. Meanwhile, a U.S. diplomatic car racing to the scene crashed and killed another Pakistani man en route. Then the widow of one of the men committed suicide. Hamza Ahmed, ...
Funeral for Youngest Shooting Victim to Celebrate 'A Little Bright Light'
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsThe distraught parents of the youngest Arizona shooting victim walked into their daughter's funeral today under an archway draped with an American flag nearly destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001 -- the very day their daughter was born. Two fire trucks' ladders were extended into the sky at the entrance to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Tucson, where Christina Taylor Green's life -- cut short at just 9 years -- was being celebrated today. The funeral began at 3 p.m. EST. A giant, 20-by-30 foot flag rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center was hoisted up between them, creating an ...
FBI Links 2 Shootings at Northern Virginia Military Facilities
By David Lohr - AOL News
(Oct. 27) -- The same weapon was used to fire shots at the Pentagon and another Northern Virginia military location, and now investigators are trying to determine whether the gun was used in a third shooting, the FBI said today. The first shooting occurred at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Va., during the early-morning hours of Oct. 17. The second shooting occurred two days later at the Pentagon in Arlington. Officers heard shots being fired around 5 a.m. The shots are believe to have originated somewhere in the vicinity of the Pentagon's south parking lot, which faces ...
Court Witnesses Recall Terror of Fort Hood Massacre
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Oct. 14) -- A portrait of a hero emerged today as witnesses recounted the horror that unfolded during last year's deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood. Spc. Alan Carroll told a military court hearing that he was shot in the arm during the carnage at the Texas base but decided he needed to help a more seriously wounded comrade instead of trying to escape, The Associated Press reported. "The only person I could see from the ground was Pfc. (Aaron Thomas) Nemelka," Carroll testified, speaking via a video link from Afghanistan, where he has been stationed for the past 10 months. "I told him it ...
Police: Colo. Mother of Dead Twins Committed Suicide
By David Lohr - AOL News(Oct. 7) -- The Colorado Springs woman found dead along with her 13-year-old twins in their home this week had committed suicide, police said today. "Rene Ogden died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, and the manner of death is ruled a suicide," Colorado Springs police Sgt. Steve Noblitt said in a statement to AOL News. Autopsy results indicate that Chase Ogden and Olivia Ogden each died from a gunshot wound to the head in what are being ruled homicides, he added. Authorities stopped short of saying they now consider the investigation a case of murder-suicide. "No further ...
3 Colombian Teens on Facebook 'Hit List' Killed
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 24) -- A status update nobody wants to see: Three Colombian teenagers have been killed after their names appeared, along with 97 others, on a multipart "hit list" posted on Facebook, according to multiple international reports. Even more frightening, police don't know who is responsible for the killings and the list itself, or the reason for the selection of names that appear upon it, although some of the victims allegedly had ties to members of drug gangs. Colombian news website El Espacio reports that it was the work of Los Rastrojos ("The Stubble"), which has been described as "one ...
Shooting Rampage in Finland Leaves 6 Dead
By not in system - AOL NewsHELSINKI (Dec. 31) -- A gunman clad in black went on a shooting rampage Thursday, killing his ex-girlfriend then slaying four workers at a suburban shopping mall near Helsinki before apparently turning his gun on himself, police said. Finnish police said one woman and three men were shot dead Thursday morning at the Sello shopping mall in Espoo, six miles (10 kilometers) west of Helsinki. The gunman was identified as 43-year-old Ibrahim Shkupolli, an immigrant who had been living for several years in Finland. Police said he killed his ex-girlfriend in a nearby apartment before heading to the ...
2 Sheriff's Officers Shot in Washington State
By not in system - AOL NewsEATONVILLE, Wash. (Dec. 22) - Two sheriff's officers responding to a dispute between two brothers were ambushed by one of the brothers lying in wait with a gun after being welcomed into the home by the other, authorities said. The gunman was killed and the officers were seriously wounded. The shooting is the third in three months in which authorities say a gunman has taken aim at law enforcement officials in Washington state. Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said a sergeant and a deputy were shot at around 8:45 p.m. Monday while responding to a dispute between David E. Crable and ...
Comparing Obama to Previous Mourners in Chief
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Nov. 11) -- When Barack Obama made his debut as consoler in chief during a service for shooting victims at Fort Hood, Texas, he joined a long line of presidents who have sought through words to salvage something, anything from the depths of national tragedy. "Every evening that the sun sets on a tranquil town; every dawn that a flag is unfurled; every moment that an American enjoys life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness -- that is their legacy," Obama said in eloquent words that echoed the cadences of the migrant worker Tom Joad in John Steinbeck's classic "The Grapes of ...
Fort Hood Killings Revive Controversial Book
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(Nov. 11) - A book that claims to expose a rising Muslim threat in the United States is gaining unexpected popularity amid the fallout from the Fort Hood massacre. "The Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America," by P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry, has shot up in Amazon's ranking since the shooting spree allegedly carried out by a Muslim Army officer, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. The shootings at Fort Hood, which left 13 dead and 42 wounded, has led to a heated debate about whether Hasan's deadly rampage was related to his contacts with Islamic extremists, a ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- Romneys Love Fancy World of Rarefied Sport
- Rudy Giuliani: Mitt's Great. I'm Just Better
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- More Stories »
- The 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk
- Know Your Enemy
- Cannes’s Mischief Maker
- Cut It Out, Internet Bullies!
- Cut It Out, Internet Bullies!
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics