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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. has recorded 17 mass killings so far in 2025, the lowest number since 2006, according to a long-running national database tracking such incidents.The database, which is maintained by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University, defines a mass killing as an incident in which four or more people are intentionally killed within a 24-hour period, excluding the perpetrator.Not all of this year’s mass killings involved firearms, but most did.Fourteen of the 17 mass killings in 2025 were carried out with guns. The data did not detail the three non-firearm…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Court records obtained by Fox News Digital revealed a man charged in a violent stabbing on a Charlotte, North Carolina, light rail on Friday is an illegal immigrant who was previously deported.Oscar Solarzano, 33, was arrested in connection with the stabbing and is charged with attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with serious injury, breaking/entering a motor vehicle, carrying a concealed weapon and intoxicated/disruptive behavior, according to arrest warrants obtained by Fox News Digital.Bond was not set due to Solarzano being an illegal immigrant who was previously deported, according to…

NEED TO KNOW The family of the 8-year-old victim of the Nov. 29 mass shooting in Stockton, Calif., has identified the victim as Maya LupianLupian was among four people, including three children, killed during the shooting, which took place at a 2-year-old’s birthday partyLupian’s family remembered her as “the light in everyone’s life” and said “she deserved a childhood full of laughter, school days, karate, family time and dreams… not this” An 8-year-old girl who was among the three children killed during Saturday night’s mass shooting at a birthday party in Stockton, Calif., has been identified. The family of Maya…

The number of U.S. mass killings has fallen to its lowest level in nearly two decades, but researchers caution the decline likely reflects a return to historical norms rather than a lasting trend. A shooting at a children’s birthday party in California last weekend that left four people dead became the 17th mass killing recorded in 2025. That figure marks the lowest annual total since 2006, according to a database maintained by the Associated Press, USA Today, and Northeastern University. Researchers say the decline should be viewed in context. James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University criminologist who oversees the database,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The White House warns in a stark new National Security Strategy that Europe could be “unrecognizable in 20 years or less” due to mass migration, adding that the demographic shift raises doubts about future U.S. allies on the continent.”Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less,” the 33-page document released on Thursday reads. It adds that the “real and more stark prospect” is of “civilizational erasure.”Mass immigration has been one of Europe’s most volatile political flashpoints over the past decade, fueled by repeated waves of immigrants from…

NEED TO KNOW A couple accused their wedding decorator of stealing their donation box containing about $10,000 after their September 2024 weddingThey realized their donation box was missing the day after the wedding and returned to the venue to watch the security cameras, where they claim to have seen the decorator leaving with it wrapped in a tableclothThe newlyweds filed a criminal complaint with the Atlanta Police Department against the wedding decorator A couple’s wedding day ended on a sour note when they found their donation box had gone missing. The couple, Paul and Sherida McCallum, alleged to WSB-TV that…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Murdaugh family’s longtime housekeeper, Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson, said a white pickup truck still “haunts” her years after the brutal Lowcountry murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh.Her book, “Within the House of Murdaugh: Amid a Unique Friendship,” co-authored with Mary Frances Weaver, chronicles not only her close relationship with Maggie Murdaugh but also the details surrounding the night Maggie and her son Paul were killed.In an interview with Fox News Digital, Turrubiate-Simpson discussed the moment that still troubles her more than four years later, including a white pickup truck she saw near the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is preparing to deliver a speech Saturday on rebuilding the “Arsenal of Freedom” at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California.Ahead of the keynote address, Hegseth shared a video on X touring facilities in California. “The era of vendor-locked, prime-dominated, closed architecture, cost plus over. We’re going to compete, we’re going to move fast, we’re going to do open architecture, we’re going to innovate, we’re going to scale, we’re going to do it at cost. Because this is a commitment to a mission,” Hegsteh said in…

NEED TO KNOW The FBI arrested a suspect alleged to have planted two pipe bombs in D.C. the night before Jan. 6, 2021The AP, NBC and Fox News reported that the suspect has been identified as Brian ColeIt is not immediately clear what charges the suspect will face Five years after a man placed two pipe bombs near the Capitol the night before the Jan. 6 riots, a suspect has been taken into custody. According to reports from the Associated Press, The New York Times and NBC News, the FBI arrested a man in connection with the case. Previously, the…

NEED TO KNOW Luigi Mangione has pleaded not guilty to state and federal murder charges in the Dec. 4, 2024, killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian ThompsonMangione’s attorneys have argued that the police violated his constitutional rights as they seek to have some evidence suppressedThese pretrial hearings are expected to last several days and impact what evidence jurors can hear Luigi Mangione was back in court on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025 — a year to the day prosecutors say he gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan. Mangione, 27, has pleaded not guilty to state and federal murder charges. This week marked…