The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday appealed a ruling involving whether hundreds of 911 calls recorded during a massacre at a gay nightclub in Florida can be released.
A month after the Pulse nightclub massacre, law enforcement leaders told a congressional committee in Washington on Friday that the Orlando area's tens of millions of tourists should be a bigger factor in determining which metro areas get federal money for preventing and responding to terrorist threats.
President Barack Obama created the first national monument to gay rights on Friday, designating the site of the Stonewall riots in Manhattan where the modern gay rights movement took root nearly five decades ago.
The Imagine Dragons and Nate Ruess will headline an "All is One Orlando Unity Concert" to benefit the OneOrlando Fund, which was established to assist the victims and survivors of the gay nightclub shooting.
Orlando gunman Omar Mateen spoke in Arabic to a 911 dispatcher, identified himself an Islamic soldier and demanded to a crisis negotiator that the U.S. "stop bombing Syria and Iraq," according to transcripts released by the FBI on Monday.
Federal investigators promised to provide more insight as to what was happening inside the Pulse nightclub after a gunman started a deadly assault that was the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Church bells rang in downtown Orlando and patrons at nightclubs paused for a moment at 2 a.m. to commemorate the shooting deaths of 49 victims at the Pulse gay nightclub exactly a week ago.
At church services and at a vigil planned for later Sunday around Lake Eola in the heart of downtown Orlando, residents remembered the victims of the worse mass shooting in modern U...