Some Palestinian-Americans stuck in Gaza have received notification from the US Department of State that departures from the enclave "may begin this week.”
Leroy Walker, a city councilor in Auburn, Maine, told CNN affiliate WGME that his son, Joseph Walker, died in the shooting at the scene of Schemengees Bar and Grille in Lewiston.
Bryan MacFarlane, 40, was participating in a cornhole tournament at Schemengees Bar and Grille Restaurant when he was killed during Wednesday’s mass shooting in Lewiston, his sister Keri Brooks told CNN.
Cormac McCarthy, long considered one of America’s greatest writers for his violent and bleak depictions of the United States and its borderlands in novels like “Blood Meridian,” “The Road” and “All the Pretty Horses,” died on Tuesday, according to his Penguin Random House publisher Alfred A. Knopf. He was 89.