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Orlando Gunman Attacks Gay Nightclub, Leaving 50 Dead By LIZETTE ALVAREZ and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA Praising ISIS, the gunman, identified as Omar Mateen, opened fire in what emerged as the worst mass shooting in United States history. The massacre early Sunday also left 53 wounded.

Last Call at Orlando Club, and Then the Shots Rang Out By MARC SANTORA The gunfire did not let up. As round after round was fired, people started dropping, some in panic, some because they were wounded, and others because they were dead.

Omar Mateen: From Early Promise to F.B.I. Surveillance By ALAN BLINDER, JACK HEALY and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. The Orlando gunman's life once seemed to be on a successful track, but he became the subject of F.B.I. investigations and allegations of abuse, and had anti-gay sentiments.

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Editors' Picks U.S. Orlando Attack Roils Gay Community, Painfully Accustomed to Violence By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Gay Americans, and those working to advance their rights, spent Sunday grappling with the implications of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub. OPINION | Op-Ed Columnist The Scope of the Orlando Carnage By FRANK BRUNI This is bigger, sadder and scarier than any one group of victims.

QUOTATION OF THE DAY "I saw bodies on the floor, people on the floor everywhere. It was a chaos, everybody trying to get out." RAY RIVERA, a D.J. at the Orlando, Fla., club where 50 people were killed in the nation's worst mass shooting.

Today's Videos Video: Timeline of Orlando Nightclub Attack A gunman killed 50 people and wounded 53 more in an attack at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., early Sunday. Video: A Day of Mourning for the Gay Community In support of the victims of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., hundreds gathered outside the Stonewall Inn in New York, where a riot in 1969 helped launch the gay rights movement.

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Was Orlando Shooter Really Acting for ISIS? For ISIS, It's All the Same

By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI

The terror group has blurred the line between operations planned and carried out by its core fighters and those carried out by its sympathizers.