Today In News:
- A rifle-wielding attacker opened fire on Republican lawmakers at a congressional baseball practice Wednesday, wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and several others as congressmen and aides dove for cover.
- The United Nations has warned that longer power cuts threaten a "total collapse" of basic services in Gaza, with residents in the beseiged Palestinian territory being held hostage to political infighting.
- The gunman who shot a top GOP congressman had mostly a minor arrest record who worked as a home inspector and despised the Republican Party.
- President Donald Trump who was called upon to decry violence while urging citizens to set aside their differences and pray for the recovery of victims. Trump had to speak words of comfort in such a troubled moment, one fraught with the overtones of gun politics and the heated rhetoric of a nation sharply divided along party lines.
- Intensified coalition air strikes supporting an assault by US-backed rebel forces on Raqqa, Syria, are causing a "staggering loss of civilian life", United Nations war crimes investigators have said.
- Jeff Sessions, one of the first members of the Republican establishment to ally himself with then-candidate Donald Trump, couldn’t seem to remember anything in relation to Russia as he appeared on Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
- Gunmen were holding at least 20 people hostage in a restaurant in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Thursday, police said, after a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden car into the hotel's entrance before gunmen stormed the restaurant.
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