Lawyers for the widow of the Pulse nightclub gunman said they have only just been told that the attacker's father was an FBI informant for 11 years.

THE difficulty with writing a column with a longer lead time than I’m used to (with this column, it’s ten days) is that I’m often wary of writing about a particular event or incident.

Omar Mateen drove around Orlando the night before the nightclub massacre, visiting several places, the mayor said.

One of the victims of the shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub wrote a poem as she lay in a hospital bed on Monday night, writes Claire Anderson.

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