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Pulse nightclub in Florida to become museum after 2016 massacre
The club will serve as a memorial and museum to help comfort those who lost someone in the attack and promote tolerance

Families of Orlando nightclub shooting victims sue Facebook, Google, Twitter
The families of 3 Orlando nightclub shooting victims sues the internet giants for knowingly and recklessly allowing ISIS to exploit social media as a recruiting fundraising and propaganda tool

Orlando gay club dead felled by 200 bullets – report
The victims who died sustained 200 bullet wounds – without counting shots that hit the 53 injured people who survived a report by the Orange County coroners office says

LISTEN: Music stars team up for Orlando tribute song
Britney Spears Selena Gomez Gwen Stefani Mary J Blige Jason Derulo Imagine Dragons Juanes Adam Lambert Jennifer Lopez P nk Nate Ruess Troye Sivan Meghan Trainor and many more big names in music sing Hands

WATCH: Jennifer Lopez, Lin-Manuel Miranda record song for Orlando shooting victims
Jennifer Lopez and Broadway star Lin Manuel Miranda record a song called Love Make the World Go Round to benefit the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting

WATCH: Stars honor the 49 Orlando shooting victims in moving tribute
Entertainment figures such as Lady Gaga Lea Michele Chris Pine Darren Criss and more – 49 of them – remember and tell the stories of the 49 individuals who lost their lives in the tragic Orlando nightclub shooting

US Democrats fail to force gun control vote in Congress
UPDATED Despite a dramatic sit in Republican Speaker Paul Ryan refuses to allow votes on two gun control bills backed by Democrats

US Senate rejects gun control measures after Orlando
Lawmakers failed to cross the aisle and compromise on one of the most sensitive hot button issues in America

'Limited transcripts' of Orlando shooter to be released – Lynch
Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the conversations between Omar Mateen and police negotiators include Mateen s pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State ISIS group and his views of US policy

Orlando buries its dead in wake of gay club massacre
More burials are expected over the weekend as the resort city struggles to recover from the shooting by lone gunman Omar Mateen

US lawmakers probing Orlando shooter's Facebook posts
Lawmakers are trying to determine if there are ways for intelligence and law enforcement communities to monitor social media platforms like Facebook so that we can prevent these tragedies

US gun debate 'needs to change,' Obama says in Orlando
UPDATED Four days after the worst mass shooting in US history Obama makes a solemn pilgrimage to meet staff at the Pulse nightclub emergency responders and some of the dozens of families shattered by gunman Omar Mateen

You cannot kill LGBTQ pride
We are born who we are loving who we do fabulous and beautiful the way we were meant to We mind our own business yet it becomes our problem when our nature stirs in you a desire to see us die

Hollywood, PH stars pay tribute to Orlando shooting victims
Entertainment personalities join everyone who mourns for the Orlando shooting victims They post about their shock and grief as well as proclaim messages of empowerment and hope

CBCP denounces Orlando attack as hate crime
Disagreement with sexual preferences ‘can never justify’ murder the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines says

FBI 'highly confident' Orlando gunman was 'radicalized'
UPDATED Reports also say Omar Mateen had been a regular at Pulse nightclub

Orlando tribute, PNP minimum wage, Queen at 90 | 6PM wRap
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#LoveIsLove: PH LGBT community in grief over Orlando attack
Let’s not allow hate to fill our hearts and minds no matter how painful and scared we all are Let’s let love in says organizers of the Metro Manila Pride

Grieving yet defiant: A shaken Orlando deals with attack
This is devastating but it will not stop the love that Orlando has We love our LGBT community

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Orlando shooter homophobe and wife beater – reports
The suspect 29 year old Omar Mateen is a Muslim American of Afghan descent and police are investigating whether he may have had a terrorist motive

Orlando massacre thrusts terror threat into White House race
Donald Trump appears bent on exploiting the massacre in Orlando to boost the argument that he can be trusted to tackle terrorism over rival Hillary Clinton

Obama: Orlando attack an act of 'terror' and 'hate'
This is an especially heartbreaking day for our friends and fellow Americans who are lesbian gay bisexual or transgender says US President Barack Obama

Pope Francis condemns 'senseless hatred' of US gay club massacre
We all hope that ways may be found as soon as possible to effectively identify and contrast the causes of such terrible and absurd violence says a statement from the Holy See

Club at center of shooting founded in honor of HIV victim
Barbara Poma and her friend opened Pulse in 2004 to keep the memory of Barbara s brother alive

LIST: The worst mass shootings in U.S. history
(UPDATED) Here are some of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States in the past 3 decades

50 dead in America's worst mass shooting
10th UPDATE Islamic State linked news agency Amaq claims an ISIS fighter was behind the attack on the gay nightclub in Orlando
