US shooter armed with extensive weapons
By Matt Apuzzo, Pete Yost
The gunman in the Newton, Connecticut, school shooting was prepared for a massacre.

The gunman in the Newton, Connecticut, school shooting was prepared for a massacre.

The suspect in U.S. school shooting is Adam Lanza, 20, the son of a teacher at the Connecticut school, a law enforcement official said Friday. A second law enforcement official said the mother, Nancy Lanza, was presumed dead.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and European Union Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström will launch a global alliance targeting online child sexual abuse, building on the success of cross-border police operations that have dismantled international pedophile networks.

The Justice Department said Friday it is going to allow members of federally recognized American-Indian tribes to possess eagle feathers, although that’s a federal crime.