An active shooter was reported at a church Sunday morning, Sept. 28, in Grand Blanc Township, police said. The incident happened at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4285 McCandlish Road, according to the Grand Blanc Township Police Department. There are multiple victims – it’s not clear how many – and the shooter is down, police said. The church is actively on fire.

While US special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff was busy negotiating a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas earlier this year, his son, Alex Witkoff, was privately courting billions of dollars from countries involved in those negotiations, The New York Times reported Friday. Steve Witkoff, who has led negotiations for US President Donald Trump’s diplomatic efforts across the globe since his inauguration in January, previously led the Witkoff Group, a real estate development...

It was only in the middle of September that the Israeli military launched its major ground offensive against Gaza City, which is the Gaza Strip's most populous place. Now, two weeks into the operation, and Israeli media is reporting that the IDF has already taken over more than half of the city. Among the Strip's total prewar population of 2.2 million, about one-third lived in Gaza City or its environs. Nearly all have fled the main parts of the city amid the full Israeli assault.

TikTok's China-based owner ByteDance will maintain ownership of TikTok's U.S. business operations and will cede control of the app’s data, content and algorithm to the newly formed joint venture, three sources familiar with the matter said. ByteDance's bigger-than-expected role in the new TikTok entity lays out the continued and significant involvement of the China-based global tech giant.

Former New York City mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani settled a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit levied against him by Dominion Voting Systems over his claims about the 2020 election. The company and Giuliani agreed to the “dismissal of all claims and causes of action asserted in this matter by Dominion against Giuliani with prejudice.” 

Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital and other cities across the country on Sunday with nearly 600 drones and dozens of missiles, killing at least four people in Kyiv and injuring dozens more in an hourslong assault. “A massive Russian attack on Ukraine lasted for more than 12 hours,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said in a statement. “Savage strikes, a deliberate, targeted terror against ordinary cities. ”

Contrary to the narrative pushed by Russian propaganda, Ukraine has so far been winning the war. Even US President Donald Trump, who in February 2025 lectured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he must cave in to Russian demands because “you don’t have the cards”, has this week declared that “Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN”.

Progressive Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner launched into a rant when confronted by a young Republican activist in a local park in a video that has since gone viral. "Donald Trump is a fascist," Krasner said during the confrontation. When prompted to elaborate on what he meant by the remark, Krasner instead deflected and continued his tirade. "You’re un-American, Frank. You’re un-American," Krasner repeated in the video. "You’re anti-American."

Three people were killed and eight others injured after a person on a boat fired shots at a waterfront bar in the coastal North Carolina city of Southport, a city spokeswoman told ABC News. The shooting began at the Southport Yacht Basin at about 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, when someone on a boat coming up Cape Fear opened fire on the American Fish Company, an outdoor bar venue, said ChyAnn Ketchum, the city's public information officer. The boat then proceeded up the Intracoastal Waterway, she...

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