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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama travels to Orlando, Florida, Thursday to stand in solidarity with the community following the weekend attack on a gay club that killed 49 people and wounded dozens of others. Meanwhile, vigils were held across the country Monday night to remember those who died. In Providence, Rhode Island, about 1,000 people attended a candlelight vigil outside a gay nightclub. Other vigils were held in Colorado, New York and Orlando, near the scene of the carnage.
EVESHAM TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Family, friends and fans of singer Christina Grimmie gathered for a candlelight vigil Monday night in the 22-year-old's New Jersey hometown of Evesham Township. Grimmie was shot and killed Friday night as she signed autographs for fans following a concert in Orlando, Florida. Authorities say the shooter, Kevin Loibl, shot and killed himself after Grimmie's brother tackled him.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials are confirming that Abu Sayyaf militants have beheaded a Canadian man, the second Canadian hostage to be killed in two months. Hostage Robert Hall was abducted from a marina last September along with another Canadian, a Norwegian and a Filipino. The other Canadian, former mining executive John Ridsdel, was beheaded in April.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Court records show that a New Mexico woman had just asked her husband for a divorce before she and their four daughters were allegedly killed by the man. Juan David Villegas-Hernandez was taken into custody by Sonora state police on Sunday, a day after police in Roswell, New Mexico found the bodies of 34-year-old Cynthia Villegas and the couple's daughters, ages 14, 11, 7 and 3.
SHANGHAI (AP) — Authorities in China have evicted hundreds of Shanghai residents and dozens of businesses to clean up the air and make way for the newest Disney theme park, which opens Thursday. Residents were paid for lost homes but hundreds of employees of closed factories say they don't know where their next jobs will be.
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