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3 dead, 7 injured in New Orleans shooting
By MARK OSBORNE
Jul 29, 2018, 4:25 AM ET
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Three people were killed and another seven injured in a shooting in New Orleans on Saturday, July 28, 2018.WGNO
Three people were killed and another seven injured in a shooting in New Orleans on Saturday, July 28, 2018.more +
Three people are dead and another seven were injured in a hail of gunfire outside a jazz bar in New Orleans on Saturday night.

According to the New Orleans Police Department, 10 people were struck by bullets in the Central City neighborhood at about 8:35 p.m. local time. By the time officers arrived, three people were found on the location.

The two men and one woman were pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The woman was shot multiple times in the back, according to the department's Twitter account.

Three people were killed and another seven injured in a shooting in New Orleans on Saturday, July 28, 2018.WGNO
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Of the seven others injured, three were taken to area hospitals by ambulance and four went to the hospital on their own. Five men and two women were among those injured in the shooting.

"Through investigation, detectives determined that two unknown armed subjects believed to be wearing hooded sweatshirts allegedly approached a group of people standing outside of a business and opened fire, striking 10 of the individuals," New Orleans police said in a statement.

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The two suspected shooters are still on the loose.

The shooting took place outside a strip mall with a Cricket wireless store, fried chicken restaurant, Money Mart financial services location and the Jazz Daiqauri's & Lounge jazz bar.

Three people were killed and another seven injured in a shooting in New Orleans on Saturday, July 28, 2018.WGNO
Three people were killed and another seven injured in a shooting in New Orleans on Saturday, July 28, 2018.more +

"There is no place in New Orleans for this kind of violence," New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said in a statement. "I speak for everyone in our City when I say we are disgusted, we are infuriated, and we have had more than enough. Three more lives — gone. It has to end. This happened near my neighborhood, on the edge of Broadmoor. It’s unacceptable anywhere.

"We are grateful to those on the scene tonight: the NOPD, EMS, the chaplains and the social workers," she added. "We will dedicate every resource necessary to ending this horror and seeing justice done."

The shooting took place about three miles southwest of the French Quarter and Bourbon Street.

The New Orleans Advocate reported the shooting was being investigated as gang-related, and said other gang shootings have taken place in the area before.

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Russians still trying to interfere in US elections every 'way they can': GOP senator
By QUINN SCANLAN
Jul 29, 2018, 10:26 AM ET
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A Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Americans need “to be very aware that the Russians are trying to interfere in our election” any way they can “regardless of who the candidate is.”

Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford told ABC News "This Week" Co-Anchor Martha Raddatz that Russia's aim is to disrupt American elections, including in the upcoming 2018 midterms.

The senator said the U.S. has to “be very aware that the Russians are trying to be able to interfere in our elections every other way they can to be able to harvest information and then to be able to use that against our democracy.”

Raddatz asked Lankford about a report in The Daily Beast that the Russian intelligence agency targeted Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri as she began her 2018 re-election campaign. There is no evidence that the hacking attempt was successful.

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U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign in an attempt to help President Trump.

The president tweeted Tuesday that he’s “very concerned” about Russian interference in the midterms and asserted that Russia “will be pushing very hard for the Democrats” and "definitely" does not support him.

Raddatz asked Lankford on Sunday, “Do you have any evidence that that is true?”

Lankford responded, "No, the – the Russians are trying to interfere with everyone’s election, and that’s the part that we lose track of. To them, sowing chaos and sowing uncertainty within our democracy is their key goal."

“They've done this in other countries," he said. "Now they're doing it to us as well. We should respond with sanctions. We should try to push back and also understand they're going to go after every candidate through the process.”

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He said one side of the Russian cyberattack on U.S. elections is to spread misinformation, and another side is "hacking into computers as they did for the [Democratic National Committee in 2016], hacking into state election systems ... So for Americans, they’ve got to be able to pay attention to what information’s coming in front of them."

A cybersecurity expert who also appeared on “This Week” Sunday told Raddatz that election-related computer systems are better secured now than they were in 2016, but that the U.S. is still “unprepared for” a misinformation campaign by Russians.

“The thing we're unprepared for is the influence campaign that Russia has undertaken, the attempt to undermine our democracy, to undermine our power, to turn Americans against themselves and against their institutions,” the expert, Niloofar Razi Howe, said. “That's the long play that they're going for, so I think we can be somewhat confident that the election itself is protected. We ought to be concerned about the long-term strategic goals that the Russians have.”

PHOTO: Sen. James Lankford questions retired Vice Adm. Joseph Maguire during a Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing, to become the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, on Capitol Hill, on July 25, 2018 in Washington, D.C.Al Drago/Getty Images
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McCaskill said in a statement last week that she “would not be intimidated” by Russia.

“Russia continues to engage in cyberwarfare against our democracy. I will continue to speak out and press to hold them accountable. While this attack was not successful, it is outrageous that they think they can get away with this,” the senator's statement said.

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Rep. John Lewis, champion of civil rights movement, hospitalized
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Jul 28, 2018, 11:59 PM ET
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Rep. John Lewis speaks at the dedication of the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., Sept. 24, 2016.PlayJoshua Roberts/Reuters FILE
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Rep. John Lewis, a champion of the civil rights movement and congressman for 31 years, has been hospitalized after falling ill on a plane.

The 78-year-old Democrat from Georgia was admitted for "routine observation," according to spokesperson Brenda Jones.

"There is no cause for alarm," Jones said in an email to ABC News. "He will be fine. He's resting comfortably and expects to be released tomorrow."

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Atlanta ABC affiliate WSB reported the congressman fell ill on a plane trip back to Atlanta, where he was to attend an event Saturday night.

The representative was a close friend of Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s and took part in many of the same iconic civil rights moments as King.

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Montgomery Alabama, 1961
As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the mid-'60s, he was one of the first Freedom Riders. He and 12 others, six of whom were black, traveled from Washington, D.C., to Louisiana to protest segregated interstate bus travel. He and the group were met by protesters who beat the group of students.

Lewis walked alongside the civil rights leader in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, when he was badly beaten by police while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

He suffered a fractured skull in the attack.

PHOTO: State troopers swing billy clubs to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., March 7, 1965. John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, in the foreground, is being beaten by a state trooper. AP Photo
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Lewis has served in Congress since January 1987. Currently representing Georgia's 5th Congressional District, he has been re-elected 14 times -- often running unopposed in recent years.

His activism did not stop in the 1960s, however. He has been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump and many of his policies since he took office. Recently, he took part in extensive protests against the president's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy.

Lewis was part of a march in Atlanta on June 30 to praise attendees causing "good trouble, necessary trouble" in trying to keep the pressure on the administration's immigration policy.

"The world is crying with us," Lewis told the crowd. "We must show the world that we are better than what is going on in America today."

PHOTO: Rep. John Lewis speaks at the dedication of the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., Sept. 24, 2016.Joshua Roberts/Reuters FILE
Rep. John Lewis speaks at the dedication of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., Sept. 24, 2016.more +
He skipped the president's first official State of the Union address in January, telling ABC News' "This Week," that "I cannot sit there and listen to him." He also skipped the president's inauguration a year earlier, which brought on an attack from Trump.

"Congressman John Lewis should finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities of the U.S.," Trump tweeted on Jan. 14, 2017. "I can use all the help I can get!"

Lewis was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor, in February 2011 by then-President Barack Obama.

ABC News' Quinn Owen contributed to this report.

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