Officials in Rhode Island said they were releasing the person of interest who had been detained for the fatal mass shooting at Brown University and resuming their search for a suspect.

Authorities were investigating the deaths as an “apparent homicide.”

Hundreds of people had gathered at Bondi Beach in Sydney for an event to celebrate the first day of Hanukkah, when gunmen opened fire.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's proposals were announced after the authorities revealed that the older of the two gunmen — who were a father and son — had held a gun license for a decade and amassed his six guns legally.

Rob Reiner, the son of a comedy giant who went on to become one, himself, as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation with movies such as "The Princess Bride" and "When Harry Met Sally"