GUNS

Tal Kopan is deputy Washington bureau chief for the Boston Globe.

A suspect has been identified in the Saturday night shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner. President Trump and several cabinet members were safely rushed from the event.

The professor said her teaching assistant was leading the review session when a shooter entered a lecture hall and opened fire. The professor herself was not there.

Authorities say a car pulled up alongside their vehicle Tuesday afternoon and opened fire, killing 20-year-old Jessiah Mercado and her four-month-old baby.

The new measures may survive challenges in state court, legal specialists say, but lawsuits could open the door to rollbacks of assault weapons bans nationally before the U.S. Supreme Court.

A spokesperson for Gov. Maura Healey said she will sign an emergency preamble for a law initially signed July 25, many provisions of which were set to take effect Oct. 23 without additional action.

Opponents of the new gun law in Massachusetts are deep into their campaign to get it repealed, but they have a lot of work ahead.

Under Massachusetts' new gun safety law, not all students who take current basic firearms courses may qualify for a license to carry.

Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign paid a visit to western Massachusetts this weekend, raised a bunch of Berkshire bucks and rallied the state's Democrats.

What do Americans have to say about election violence, after a gunman attempted to assassinate Donald Trump last weekend? The UMass Amherst Poll is about to do a national survey.