What We Know About the YouTube Shooter

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What We Know About the YouTube Shooter
The active shooter at YouTube headquarters in California is now known to be Nasim Najafi Aghdam, a 39-year-old from San Diego.
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What We Know About the YouTube Shooter

The active shooter at YouTube headquarters in California is now known to be Nasim Najafi Aghdam, a 39-year-old from San Diego.

The Latest

NASCAR indefinitely suspends driver who mocked IndyCar racer’s ‘gay voice’

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What We Know About the YouTube Shooter

The active shooter at YouTube headquarters in California is now known to be Nasim Najafi Aghdam, a 39-year-old from San Diego.

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Daniel Dye, who has apologized, must complete sensitivity training before returning to competition.

Outspoken stars are calling out Minaj's political stance and alignment with President Trump.

“Under the guise of addressing a non-existent voter fraud problem, this bill would create onerous restrictions,” a coalition of civil rights groups wrote.

Opinion: The Trump administration is imposing unnecessary cruelty on incarcerated transgender people who have nowhere to go, writes NCLR legal director Shannon Minter.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to betold.

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Most Popular

"The Ninth District is not for sale,” the victorious Evanston mayor said. “So enough about AIPAC, may tonight be the last time I utter their name."

The former Kennedy Center president never seemed to grasp that when he insisted on being “normal,” to Trump, there is no reward for it, writes John Casey.

Justice James Walsh said other public interests outweigh safety of individuals, even after an appellate court reversed his rulings.

In this anniversary essay, author Michael Ferguson looks back at the 1976 film adaptation of Bobbie Gentry’s mysterious hit song and its lasting, complicated legacy in queer cinema.

Opinion: Christ didn’t mince words when it came to condemning powerful figures who abuse the most vulnerable, Michael Dru Kelley writes.

Dylan Blaha ran on defending transgender Americans and economic reform, but was outmatched by Rep. Nikki Budzinski’s endorsements and fundraising.