A Long Island architect has pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and admitted he killed an eighth in a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings.

Prosecutors say the man charged in the Gilgo Beach serial killings on Long Island, New York, kept a document he used to “blueprint” his crimes.

Four high-profile shootings in U.S. cities this week drew headlines but masked the daily toll of gun violence in some of the same communities.

The British government may require National Health Service workers to be inoculated against COVID-19 _ a controversial proposal that was immediately criticized by opposition leaders as counterproductive.