AllSides - Balanced News
AllSides - Balanced News

AllSides - Balanced News

@allsides

Favicon 
www.allsides.com

At least 3 dead, including female teen assailant, in shootings at Wisconsin Christian school

At least two people were killed and six others were injured in a Monday morning shooting at a Christian school in Wisconsin by a teenage girl who opened fire on campus, police said. Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said one student and one teacher were shot and killed at Abundant Life Christian School, and also said the gun-wielding teenage student was found dead after she appeared to take her own life. Chief Barnes identified the shooter Monday evening as 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow...

Favicon 
www.allsides.com

Madison police chief: Authorities investigating how 15-year-old school shooter obtained gun

Police in Madison, Wis., are investigating how the 15-year-old school shooter obtained a handgun. Police Chief Shon Barnes, in an interview Tuesday morning with CNN’s John Berman, said partners at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) are expediting a trace form “to determine the origin of that weapon, who purchased it, and how it got from a manufacturer all the way into the hands of a 15-year-old girl.” “These are questions ...

Favicon 
www.allsides.com

15-Year-Old Girl Identified as the Shooter in a Wisconsin School

The shooter who killed at least two people on Monday at a Christian school in Madison, Wis., was identified as Natalie Rupnow, a 15-year-old student who later died from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the police said. The shooter, who went by “Samantha,” opened fire in a study hall classroom with students from several grades at Abundant Life Christian School, said Shon F. Barnes, the Madison police chief. Officers arrived after a second-grade student placed a 911 call...

Favicon 
www.allsides.com

To Dial Down Campus Tensions, Colleges Teach the Art of Conversation

On a warm November day, a group of Columbia University professors set up “listening tables” near the center of campus and hailed students rushing to class, inviting them to stop and talk. About a dozen students, alumni and faculty members sat down, grabbed some free pizza and chatted about how the protests over the Israel-Hamas war had alienated some of them and inspired others. Then, a woman in a kaffiyeh, the traditional Palestinian scarf, spoke up and the tension rose. Over the past...

Favicon 
www.allsides.com

Assad denies planning to flee Syria before evacuation by Moscow

The former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has said he had no plans to flee Syria before being evacuated by the Russian army after its base in western Syria came under attack. In his first comments since the fall of his brutal regime, Assad said he had planned to keep fighting rebel forces.