Brazil's federal police searched the home of a nephew of former president Jair Bolsonaro on Friday in connection with the Jan. 8 storming of government buildings in the capital by far-right protesters ...

Several school staffers had raised alarms about a six-year-old student believed to have brought a gun on campus hours before he shot 25-year-old teacher Abigail Zwerner.

How Brazil’s riots compare to the Jan. 6 attack. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By German Lopez The riots ...

Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay, and Oakland, California are all reeling from mass shootings in their communities this past ...

This is the 17th shooting involving a student under the age of 10 at a school since 1970 – the first year for which my database keeps track. Most of these shootings were not intentional.

School shootings—terrifying to students, educators, parents, and communities—always reignite polarizing debates about gun rights and school safety. To bring context to these debates ...

Education Week counted more school shootings in 2022 than in any calendar year since its journalists began tracking them in 2018. Fresh conversations about school safety and gun laws started after ...

Germany's Economic Cooperation and Development Minister Svenja Schulze, left, and Brazil's Minister of Indigenous Peoples ...

Overall, schools are still quite safe. School shootings are “very, very rare,” said David Riedman, the founder of the K-12 School Shooting Database. His tracker identified 300 schools with gun ...

though research doesn't show that this has prevented school shootings even as more places adopt the practice. The processes too often target students already at risk of not succeeding in school ...

2022 served as a reminder of how commonplace school shootings have become in recent years in the U.S. In all, there were 302 school shootings last year, far outpacing 2021’s total of 250.