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US: Teacher shot by six-year-old student files $40 million lawsuit
•Abby Zwerner, a 25-year-old teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia was shot in the hand and chest on Jan. 6 as she sat at a reading table in her classroom
As gun attacks in US supermarkets rise, a look at what’s in the mind of these retail mass shooters
•Criminologists have found that two-thirds of perpetrators had a prior criminal history and half of them communicated intent to do harm to others ahead of the attack. Yet, retail shootings tend to be less well-planned than other mass shootings
US: Gunman among several killed at Virginia Walmart shooting
Fp Staff •The incident took place late on Tuesday evening at Chesapeake in the US state of Virginia. The gunman was reportedly shot and killed by the police. The Chesapeake Police Department said the number of dead and injured is still unclear and could rise
Explained: Nor'easter that battered US East Coast with deep snow and powerful winds
Fp Staff •Five states — New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Rhode Island and Virginia — declared an emergency after heavy snowfall caused transport chaos and power cuts for thousands
Major outage hits Amazon Web Services; takes down Kindle, Netflix, Disney and more for hours
•In a statement, Amazon spokesperson Richard Rocha confirmed that Amazon's warehouse and delivery operations had also experienced issues as a result of the AWS outage
Amazon fails to protect data; a look at lobbyists who kill US consumer privacy protections
Fp Staff •The company gathers a vast array of information on its US customers, and it started making that data available to all upon request early last year, after trying and failing to defeat a 2018 California measure requiring such disclosures
Video shows fish falling from sky, damaging car: Watch it here to believe it
Trendingdesk •While the viral video has left a few social media users confused, some believe that it could have been dropped by a bird
US Election 2020 Virginia profile: How state voted in 2016, demographics and more
Fp Research •Virginia, a southeastern US state, stretches from the Chesapeake Bay to the Appalachian Mountains, with a long Atlantic coastline
TikTok, WeChat to be banned in US in 45 days unless sold by parent companies, president Trump issues executive order
•The twin executive orders that will take effect in 45 days, cited national security concerns.
Donald Trump signs Executive Order on police reform even as he presses for 'law and order' after weeks of protests against racial injustice
•President Donald Trump, facing criticism that his policies and inflammatory rhetoric have aggravated a racial divide in the United States, signed an order on Tuesday that he said would reform police practices even as he pressed for 'law and order' nationwide.