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The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has reopened after a day of mourning for a guard authorities say was killed in an attack by a rifle-toting white supremacist.

The police on Thursday charged James W. von Brunn with murder in the death of a security guard at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The fatal shooting of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum sent shock waves throughout the nation's capital and across the country and the world.

The suspect in the fatal shooting of an abortion doctor in Kansas had professed an anti-government, anti-abortion philosophy in years past, some who knew him said.

Ortega Devon Henderson, an up-and-coming rapper who traveled in the same orbit as fellow artist Nelly, died Wednesday of injuries suffered May 16 in a shooting in Wellston, his friends and family said.

India's prime minister appealed for calm as riots spread to several northern Indian cities to protest a deadly shooting at a Sikh temple in Austria.

Police in Austria say up to 30 people have been wounded, nine severely, in a shooting at a Sikh temple in Vienna.

About 500 students will graduate Saturday from Atlanta's prestigious Morehouse College. One person who won't be there is Rashad Johnson, shot three times by a fellow student.

Australia's army has started shooting 6,000 kangaroos to thin their population on an army training ground near the capital, an official said Friday, outraging conservationists.

Officials at Wesleyan University are instructing students, faculty and staff to stay home while the suspect in a fatal shooting on campus is on the loose.