The U.S. Senate defeated a vital background check amendment to the gun control bill, prompting an angry response by one survivor of the Tuscon shooting 2 years ago. The vote was 54-46 with supporters of the bill falling six vote short of the required 60-vote threshold.
Video security clips from a Lord & Taylor department store across the street from where the second bomb exploded show a man acting suspicious.
A massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in central Texas on Wednesday left more than 160 people wounded and killed an estimated five to 15 people, officials said, likely including firefighters who were battling the blaze at the factory that triggered the explosion.
Authorities said the wife of a former judge has confessed to being involved in the shooting deaths of a North Texas district attorney, his wife and an assistant prosecutor
