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In Australia, at least 15 people are dead, including a child, and dozens of others are

injured.

After gunmen, opened fire on Bondi Beach and Sydney, as hundreds gathered for a

Hanukkah festival.

Authorities say it was a terrorist act targeting the Jewish community, New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon.

We are satisfied that there were two offenders involved in yesterday's incident.

One is deceased. The second is in critical but stable condition in hospital at the moment.

The offenders are a 50-year-old and 24-year-old male who are father and son.

Police say they also located a vehicle linked to one suspect that they say had several improvised explosive devices inside.

Mass shootings are rare in Australia.

The country implemented some of the world's toughest gun laws after a mass shooting in 1996,

when a lone gunman killed 35 people at multiple

locations, including a cafe and a tourist site. A person of interest is in custody in the

mass shooting at Brown University yesterday that left at least two people dead, nine others injured.

Police say it's a man in his 20s and sources identified him as Benjamin Erickson.

And peers Luke Garrett reports the shooting is renewing Democratic calls for stricter gun safety laws in the U.S.

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat, tells CNN he's not hopeful that GOP-controlled Congress will pass new gun legislation.

The Republicans in Congress don't ever meaningfully break from this president.

So until they get the OK from President Trump to break with the gun lobby, I think the chances

of us getting something done are slim.

Murphy says the Trump administration's defunding of mental health and gun prevention

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