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The Supreme Court is clearing the way for a veteran wounded by a suicide bomb in Afghanistan to sue the government contractor for whom the attacker was working when he built the explosive. The court ruled Wednesday in the case of a former Army specialist, Winston Hencely. He was wounded in a 2016 explosion at Bagram Airfield that killed five people. Hencely sued after an Army investigation faulted the company’s failure to supervise an Afghan employee who built the vest on the job site inside the base. Wednesday's ruling reverses lower courts that found the company was immune because it was working during wartime for the federal government.

Police in Virginia say Justin Fairfax, the state’s former lieutenant governor, shot and killed his wife and then fatally shot himself. Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said Thursday that both were found dead at their northern Virginia home after the couple’s teenage son called 911 shortly after midnight. The police chief said the couple was going through a divorce.

An assailant has opened fire at a high school in southeastern Turkey, wounding at least 16 people before killing himself. The 18-year-old attacker, armed with a shotgun, fired randomly at the vocational high school in Siverek, Sanliurfa province, on Tuesday. He later killed himself with the same shotgun, Gov. Hasan Sildak said. The motive for the attack remains unclear. School shootings are rare in Turkey. Police special operations units were deployed after the assailant refused to surrender. All staff and students were evacuated. Video footage showed dozens of students running out of the school toward the gate and onto the street.

Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas says he will retire from Congress amid bipartisan calls to expel him. Gonzales had already said he would not seek reelection after admitting to an affair with a staff member who later died by suicide. House Republican leaders had called on the three-term Gonzales to not seek reelection.