Florida Nightclub Shooter

The federal trial for the widow of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, began on Thursday with the selection of jurors, who will decide whether she aided her husband in one of the deadliest U.S. mass shootings.

A US federal judge on Friday revoked an order allowing the release of the Orlando nightclub killer's widow pending trial, saying she posed a flight risk and danger to the public. Florida US District Judge Paul Byron reversed an earlier decision by a federal magistrate in California to release Noor Salman on $500,000 bail.

An ex-convict who posted anti-Islamic rants online pleaded no contest on Monday to setting fire to a mosque that the Orlando nightclub shooter occasionally attended and now faces up to 30 years in prison.

The Florida mosque where Omar Mateen, who committed the deadliest mass shooting in US history, prayed was badly damaged on Monday in an arson attack, investigators said.

Orlando shooter Omar Mateen had bought jewellery worth nearly $9,000 less than a week before he killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub, the worst mass shooting in modern US history.

As early as third grade, the Florida nightclub shooter talked frequently about sex and violence and before finishing high school was suspended for a total of 48 days, including for fighting and hurting classmates, school records showed.

The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub over the weekend tried to talk him out of the attack, the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, media reported on Tuesday, citing law enforcement sources.

The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a Florida nightclub over the weekend tried to talk him out of the attack, MSNBC reported on Tuesday, citing officials familiar with her comments to the FBI.

Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people in a gun attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, travelled to Saudi Arabia in 2011 and 2012, Saudi Interior Ministry security spokesman Major General Mansour Turki said on Monday.

Shares in British private security giant G4S plunged on the London stock market on Monday after it emerged that Omar Mateen, the gunman behind the massacre in a Florida gay nightclub, was one of its employees.

The father of the suspected gunman in today's Orlando mass shooting said he believed his son was motivated by hatred of gays -- not by his Muslim religion.

A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded Florida nightclub early Sunday before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. The attack left at least 50 people dead, making it the worst mass shooting in American history.

The federal trial for the widow of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, began on Thursday with the selection of jurors, who will decide whether she aided her husband in one of the deadliest U.S. mass shootings.

A US federal judge on Friday revoked an order allowing the release of the Orlando nightclub killer's widow pending trial, saying she posed a flight risk and danger to the public. Florida US District Judge Paul Byron reversed an earlier decision by a federal magistrate in California to release Noor Salman on $500,000 bail.

An ex-convict who posted anti-Islamic rants online pleaded no contest on Monday to setting fire to a mosque that the Orlando nightclub shooter occasionally attended and now faces up to 30 years in prison.

The Florida mosque where Omar Mateen, who committed the deadliest mass shooting in US history, prayed was badly damaged on Monday in an arson attack, investigators said.

Orlando shooter Omar Mateen had bought jewellery worth nearly $9,000 less than a week before he killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub, the worst mass shooting in modern US history.

As early as third grade, the Florida nightclub shooter talked frequently about sex and violence and before finishing high school was suspended for a total of 48 days, including for fighting and hurting classmates, school records showed.

The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub over the weekend tried to talk him out of the attack, the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, media reported on Tuesday, citing law enforcement sources.

The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a Florida nightclub over the weekend tried to talk him out of the attack, MSNBC reported on Tuesday, citing officials familiar with her comments to the FBI.

Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people in a gun attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, travelled to Saudi Arabia in 2011 and 2012, Saudi Interior Ministry security spokesman Major General Mansour Turki said on Monday.

Shares in British private security giant G4S plunged on the London stock market on Monday after it emerged that Omar Mateen, the gunman behind the massacre in a Florida gay nightclub, was one of its employees.

The father of the suspected gunman in today's Orlando mass shooting said he believed his son was motivated by hatred of gays -- not by his Muslim religion.

A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded Florida nightclub early Sunday before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. The attack left at least 50 people dead, making it the worst mass shooting in American history.