Democratic and Republican negotiators in the US Senate said they were not able to reach a deal on Thursday on a bipartisan response to recent US mass shootings but vowed to continue their efforts.

Democrats in the US Senate said on Tuesday they were encouraged by talks with Republicans on firearms legislation but warned that any compromise would fall well short of all the steps they say are needed to curb gun violence.

US police say three people are dead and a fourth person is critically injured after a shooting in Virginia, as actor Mathew McConaughey urges leaders in Washington to address gun violence.

One person was killed and eight others were wounded early Saturday in a shooting amid a crowd of people in northwest of downtown Phoenix, police said.

A large number of students have walked out in New York, the United States, of their schools on National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

As advocates call on Washington to curb violence after mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, its hometown team the Nationals are already taking up the cause.

Black residents in Buffalo, New York, express anguish about the racism and white supremacy that fueled the deadliest racist massacre in modern American history.

A teenage boy is killed and two others critically injured after a shooting incident outside a high school in Des Moines, the capital of the US state of Iowa, on Monday.

At least 400 Americans have been killed in gun violence in first four days of 2022, , according to the Gun Violence Archive..

A mass shooting at a vigil near Houston, Texas, has left 1 person dead and 14 others injured.