rifles were used by James Holmes at the 2012 shooting in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater; Adam Lanza at the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting in 2012; John Sawahri when he killed five people at a Santa Monica, California home in 2013; Omar Mateen at the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. Florida; and Devin Kelly at a Springs, Texas church in November 2017.

Stephen Paddock also had an AR-15-style rifle among the weapons he used at the Las Vegas mass shooting in October 2017.Congressional Republicans and Democrats in the United States announced on Saturday they had reached an agreement on a sweeping Russia sanctions package to punish Moscow for meddling in the presidential election and its military aggression in Ukraine and Syria.

Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 House Democrat, said legislators had settled lingering issues with the bill, which also includes stiff economic penalties against Iran and North Korea.

The US' sanctions targeting Russia, however, have drawn the most attention due to President Donald Trump's persistent push for warmer relations with President Vladimir Putin and ongoing investigations into Russia's interference in the 2016 campaign.

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Passage of the bill, which could occur before Congress breaks for the August recess, puts Capitol Hill on a possible