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Chicago
The city's worst month for gun violence since 1997 puts its total shootings for 2016 ahead of the number recorded during all of last year.
Law Enforcement
A protective order did not save Khalid Jabara.
Suicide
Here’s why that might be a huge development.
Tim King founded Urban Prep Academies to help Chicago’s young black men succeed. Each time a current or former student is killed in a shooting, he has the difficult task of delivering the news.
"Feeling completely safe is a luxury I fear I’ll never have, no matter where I am," writes Columbia University graduate student Darius Johnson.
Election 2016
The gun group has spent $1.7 million to defeat Ted Strickland — more than it has on all other congressional races combined.
Gary Noesner, the former chief of the FBI’s Crisis Negotiation Unit, on the virtues of self-control and active listening.
Gun Policy
The agency gets more than 1,000 requests for gun traces each day. But most local libraries have more advanced record-keeping systems.
Data
The agency busts an armed traveler every 3 hours on average.
Domestic Violence
A statistical guide to firearms, intimate partner abuse, and the children, parents, and police who become victims, too.