Officials in Washington know their hometown is a target for terrorists. But, despite the huge resources ploughed into preventing attacks, there are still issues with the city’s defences, writes Jeff Stein

A suburban Chicago gun shop is raffling a semi-automatic weapon to benefit victims of the nightclub shooting in Orlando.

The Orlando massacre at a popular gay nightclub shows no one yet has “found the magic bullet” to prevent Americans from being inspired to violence by jihadist propaganda on the internet, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said as she visited a city still shaken by the shootings.

A divided US senate blocked rival election-year plans to curb guns, only a week after Orlando’s mass shooting intensified pressure on lawmakers to act but knotted them in gridlock anyway — even over restricting firearms for terrorists.

Killer said he had explosive vests and car rigged with bombs

Tens of thousands of people have held up candles around a lake in the heart of central Orlando as the names were recited of each of the victims who died in the Pulse nightclub massacre.

Funerals for two of the 49 victims killed in the shooting at a Florida nightclub have been marked by tense scenes, as an impatient driver was accused of injuring two officers and one burial took place under the watch of anti-gay protesters.

Families of some of the 49 people killed in a massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub mourned and buried their dead, a day after US president Barack Obama met survivors and said the United States must act to control gun violence.

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

The US now has a unique opportunity to shift the burden of proof about the necessity for stronger gun control regulation, writes Frederic Lemieux

Omar Mateen’s alcohol use and conflicted sexuality are at odds with the terrorists’ religious credo, but losing in Iraq and Syria, it is desperate for a win, say Lori Hinnant and Sarah El Deeb

German federal investigators are looking into a Duesseldorf bank account held by the father of the gunman who attacked an Orlando nightclub, and are in contact with their American counterparts, a police spokeswoman said.

Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer has said he is uplifted by the way the community has come together during a city-wide prayer service for the 49 people who were killed in a nightclub shooting.

Survivor of the Orlando Massacre Alejandro A. Francisco has penned an articulate and thought-provoking letter to killer Omar Mateen which has caused waves across the world.

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Survivor of the Orlando Massacre Alejandro A. Francisco has penned an articulate and thought-provoking letter to killer Omar Mateen which has caused waves across the world.

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No state can always protect its people from acts of evil mania. But the US chooses to put the means of perpetration within easy reach, writes Gerard Howlin

Federal investigators are examining possible motives for the massacre of 49 people in a Florida nightclub - the worst mass shooting in modern US history.

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US authorities are investigating whether anyone helped the gunman who massacred 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, but said they did not believe anyone connected to the shooting posed a current danger to the public.

A gunman who pledged his allegiance to Islamic State before he massacred 49 people at a gay nightclub in the US had “strong indications of radicalisation”, the FBI said.

The head imam of the Islamic Centre Ireland said he stands with the LGBT community in the wake of the Orlando shootings.

It’s unlikely that Omar Mateen, who killed 50 people in a nightclub at the weekend, was directly linked to IS. Lack of gun control and mental illness may be factors, says Peter Apps

Hillary Clinton has vowed to make stopping "lone wolf" terrorists a top priority if elected president.

Donald Trump says there are thousands of people living in the United States "sick with hate" and capable of carrying out the sort of massacre that killed at least 50 people in a Florida nightclub.

Guardian journalist Owen Jones called the shooting "a deliberate attack on LGBT people.”

At least 50 people were shot dead when a gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday.

Republican Donald Trump is to further address the deadliest shooting in modern US history in a campaign speech which was originally intended to attack presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Omar Mateen was a bodybuilder and a security guard, a religious man who attended the local mosque and wanted to become a police officer.

Witnesses to America's worst mass shooting described their efforts to flee the scene.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton tore up their presidential campaign schedules after the worst mass shooting in US history.

Doctors fear the death toll from the deadliest mass shooting in US history will rise, as the identities of the 50 people who were gunned down began to emerge.

Gunman Omar Mateen, who killed at least 50 people in a gay nightclub in Florida, was mentally unstable and had a history of using steroids, his ex-wife said.