Biden moves on gun control as another five die in mass shooting

US President Joe Biden has announced six executive orders aimed at addressing a proliferation of gun violence across the country that he says is an “epidemic and an international embarrassment”, on a day when another five people were killed in a mass shooting – this time in South Carolina.

Mass panic, threatre stormed as motorcycle backfires in Times Square

Frantic people scrambled to get out of Times Square after the sound of a motorcycle backfiring caused fear in the wake of mass shootings in other American cities.