'It was just a nightmare'

As officials look for answers, communities mourn the lives lost in a weekend of deadly gun violence. Russia's Golden Arches are going dark: McDonald's is leaving over the war with Ukraine. And wild weather is in the forecast for millions across the country.

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Buffalo mourns shooting victims

A security guard. A deacon. An advocate for civil rights and education. An 86-year-old shopping after visiting her husband in a nursing home.

Friends and family on Monday mourned the 10 people who were killed in Buffalo, New York, when an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at a busy supermarket in what the FBI is investigating as a racially motivated hate crime. "It was just a nightmare," said Shonnell Harris Teague, an operations manager at Tops who witnessed the attack. Thirteen people were shot Saturday afternoon at a Tops Friendly Markets store in a historic neighborhood on the city's Near East Side. Eleven of the people shot were Black and two were white, police said. Authorities released the names of the victims Sunday evening; among them, a security guard hailed as a hero for trying to stop the gunman and a deacon who often drove shoppers home. Their ages range from 32 to 86 years old. Here's what we know about them.

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Hate against Taiwanese led to Laguna Woods church shooting, police say

Authorities on Monday said a deadly shooting at a Southern California church was a "politically motivated hate incident" against the Taiwanese community. At least one person was killed and five people were injured when the shooter opened fire Sunday afternoon at the Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, which was hosting a Taiwanese congregation. Orange County officials said that a group of congregants inside the church prevented further carnage when they pinned the gunman to the ground, hog-tied his legs with an extension cord and took his weapons. The Orange County Sheriff's Department on Monday identified the suspect as David Chou, 68, of Las Vegas. Chou was booked on one felony count of murder and five felony counts of attempted murder, the sheriff's department said. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has also opened a hate crime investigation into the shooting.

• Photo gallery: Deadly shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church.

• 'Exceptional heroism': Churchgoers stopped rampage, hog-tied suspect after deadly shooting.

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Sweden wants to join NATO; McDonald's moving out of Russia

A day after Finland applied for NATO membership, Sweden looked to make its own historic application. After more than 200 years of being a nonaligned nation, Sweden will apply for membership in NATO, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson announced Monday. Andersson called it "a historic change in our country's security policy" as she addressed lawmakers in the Swedish capital.

After 32 years in Russia, McDonald's announced Monday that it had started the process of "de-arching" its restaurants and selling off Russian interests, which include 850 restaurants that employ 62,000 people. It is the latest corporation to announce a withdrawal from Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.

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Millions at risk of violent thunderstorms

A wild day of weather is on tap for millions in the northeastern U.S. Monday as a round of severe storms is forecast to bring strong winds, large hail and the possibility of tornadoes from Virginia to New York State. In all, over 60 million people are at risk of violent thunderstorms in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, the Storm Prediction Center warned. Weather.com said stronger gusts could down trees and power lines, and that power outages were likely in some areas. The Storm Prediction Center said damaging winds and isolated large hail are also possible from eastern New Mexico into Texas. And rounding out the weather warning for this week: a heat wave! Much of the southern tier of the nation is expected to be scorched with near-record high temperatures in the 90s-100s for the next several days, according to the National Weather Service.

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Who was Jane Roe?

Norma McCorvey, the famous plaintiff known by her pseudonym Jane Roe, was always a controversial figure – regardless of what side of the abortion debate she was on. Nobody knows this better than her eldest daughter, Melissa Mills. In an exclusive interview with USA TODAY, Mills opened up about McCorvey's complicated views on abortion, sex, God, motherhood – and how it all affected Mills' childhood. "Norma wasn't ready to be a mother," Mills said. "Well – I don't really know if Norma ever wanted to be a mother." Unlike her mom, Mills chose a quiet life, becoming a nurse and raising two daughters. But now, as the Supreme Court has signaled it might overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, Mills is reflecting on what this means for her and her late mother's legacy. "I think more about her now, and I talk more about her now than I ever did growing up," Mills said. "Now, I live Norma every day. Everything's about the things that have happened in the past and everything happening now." Read more here.

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