| Texas gunman shot crying children | | The gunman who killed 26 people at a rural Texas church Sunday targeted crying children, shooting them at point-blank range, survivors say. Fewer people may have lived to share their stories of loss, horror and heroism from the massacre in Sutherland Springs if not for a man who, armed and barefoot, chased and fired at the gunman after the attack. Among the dead were a pair of high school sweethearts and three generations of one tight-knit family . The shooting has reignited a national debate about guns. The gunman, Devin Kelley, had a history of domestic violence and escaped from a mental health facility in 2012, but an error left him off the database of prohibited gun owners. President Trump said more people could have died with stricter gun control ( the AR-15 components that are legal may surprise you) and now churches are considering tightening security, and yes, arming congregants. | | Two-time Cy Young winner Roy Halladay dies at 40 | | Former Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Halladay, 40, died Tuesday after his single-engine plane crashed in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast. The two-time Cy Young Award winner was a strong candidate to make the Hall of Fame after going 203-105 with a 3.38 ERA over a 16-year career that included stints with the Toronto Blue Jays and the Philadelphia Phillies. On May 29, 2010, Halladay pitched the 20th perfect game in baseball history, beating the then-Florida Marlins 1-0 and less than five months later on Oct. 6, 2010, he threw the second no-hitter in postseason history. Halladay announced his retirement from baseball after the 2013 season due to constant back injuries. | | iPhone's autocorrect is even more annoying than usual | | It's bad enough when your iPhone wants to "fix" your texts with the wrong words. Now it won't let some users even type a lowercase "i." Instead, they get autocorrected to an uppercase "A" with a question mark inside a box. The bug in iOS 11 is driving iPhone users crazy, which is why Apple is planning to fix it in a future software update. If you can't wait that long, there's a quick workaround involving your keyboard settings so autocorrect can go back to being mildly irritating. | | Our planet could become a 'ball of fire.' If AI doesn't destroy us first | | Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking made headlines Tuesday with grim predictions about artificial intelligence and Earth's fate. Hawking warned that the planet could become a "ball of fire" after the growing population drives energy consumption sky high. His proposal? Find another habitable planet. That prediction was followed by another, equally distressing one: Hawking said AI could prove the " worst event in the history of our civilization" if humanity doesn't prepare for its risks. Rounding out the trifecta of doom: The U.S. now has the dubious distinction of being the only country that has declined to be part of the Paris climate agreement, after (even) Syria said it would join. |  | | These are the worst cities for black Americans | | Despite the achievements of the civil rights movement 50 years ago, substantial inequalities still exist in America. Here's a stark one: Black American families earn 61 cents for every dollar earned by a white household. In some of America's largest metro areas, discriminatory policy, racial bias and a history of oppression have widened the gap, and now we know which cities are the worst. In Niles-Benton Harbor, Mich.; Racine and Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, Wis.; Peoria, Ill.; and Erie, Pa., the black median incomes are as low as 34.6% of white income. In Erie, the worst city on this list, black unemployment rates are 24.6% — compared with white unemployment at just 4%. Here's the full list of cities. | | Meanwhile, in Florida ... | | | | This is a compilation of stories from across USA TODAY. | |
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