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Investigators are trying to figure out what led to Mateen's murderous rampage in a gay dance club where patrons say they knew him as just another regular who danced and sometimes tried to pick up men.

Matthew Gentili, an overnight producer at Orlando’s News 13, was fielding calls early Sunday morning about reports of a shooting in the downtown area.

Hundreds are calling on a pastor to step down after telling his congregation that Christians shouldn't mourn the deaths of the 49 people killed in Orlando.

People marched down Orlando streets with rainbow flags trying to boost the city's spirits while more victims of last weekend's shooting were buried.

The FBI was releasing on Monday a printed, partial transcript of the conversations between the gunman within the Pulse gay nightclub and Orlando police negotiators, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said.

Democrats get their long-sought votes on gun control a week after the massacre in Orlando, Florida, but election-year politics and the powerful National Rifle Association dim any prospects for changes in the nation's laws.

The horror of the Orlando night club attack is being felt particularly keenly by LGBT Muslims.

The father of Omar Mateen, the man who murdered 49 people at an Orlando gay bar Sunday morning, isn't convinced his son came up with the attack plan on his own.

The father of the suspected Orlando gunman told British broadcaster Sky News that his son's attack at the Pulse nightclub could have been prevented if the club had had better security.

Patience Carter said she stayed on the ground of the women’s bathroom inside the Orlando nightclub “for hours and hours” hoping police would come.

A look at the intersection between the United States terrorist watchlist, guns and the Orlando shooting.

Barbara Poma established Pulse in 2004 as a way of mourning her brother John, who died from AIDS-related illness in 1991. Now, she says it will also honour the victims of Sunday's mass shooting.

Orlando mourned the 49 people slaughtered in the attack on a gay nightclub, as the White House and the FBI portrayed the killer Monday as an apparent "homegrown extremist" who espoused support for a jumble of often-conflicting Islamic organizations.

The massacre of 49 people at Orlando's Pulse nightclub happened as many cities across North America and other parts of the globe mark LGBTQ pride month.

The owner of the gun store where Omar Mateen purchased the guns used in the shootings at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando which left at least 49 people dead is a retired New York City police officer.

Omar Mateen was more than just a homicidal, jihadist-inspired homophobe when he shot his way through an Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning, according to a couple of the establishment regulars.

Two people were killed and several others injured early Saturday in a shooting outside a Texas dance studio.

Authorities said they have arrested a suspect in the early Saturday beating of a man outside a Florida mosque that Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen had attended.

The need for improved gun control measures in the US was front and centre at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, as the party paid tribute to victims of some of the worst mass shootings in the country's history.

The father of Omar Mateen, the shooter who killed 49 people in an attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June, was spotted at a Hillary Clinton rally in Kissimmee, Florida on Monday.