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They Couldn’t Care Less About Renee Good’s Killing

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“She behaved horribly.” That’s how President Donald Trump described Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman who was repeatedly shot and killed by an ICE officer on Wednesday, roughly one mile from where a police officer murdered George Floyd nearly six years ago. Speaking to the New York Times, the president then pushed the spurious narrative that […]

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We Know What’s Killing Loons and How to Stop It. So Why Are They Still Dying?

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This story was originally published by bioGraphic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1987, wildlife veterinarian Mark Pokras was in his office at Tufts University in Massachusetts when a colleague from New Hampshire called. “I’ve got a dead loon here,” she said. “If I bring it down to you, can you tell me […]

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Two Countries. Two Tragedies. One Huge Difference.

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I’m in Sydney visiting family for Christmas. I’m writing this a short drive from where two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration on Sunday, killing 15 people—one of the worst days of violence in modern Australian history. I’ve lived in the US for nearly 15 years and have covered plenty of its disasters up […]

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A Florida Sheriff Had a Message for Kyle Rittenhouse: “I Think You’re a Joke”

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Earlier this year, it looked like the world had perhaps heard the last from Kyle Rittenhouse. After a jury acquitted him in November 2021, the famous teenage shooter, who killed two people and wounded a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the Black Lives Matter protests, had tried to rebrand himself as a Second Amendment influencer. […]

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Florida GOP Gun Bill Seeks to Allow Open Carry on College Campuses

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The bill would also expand Florida’s “guardian” program, which allows school employees to be trained to handle guns.

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Powerful Influencers Are Spreading a Vile Rumor About the Brown Shooting

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Four days after a shooting at Brown University killed two students and wounded nine others, neither the shooter’s identity nor motive is known. But that hasn’t stopped internet sleuths from insisting that they know who did it. Now, powerful influencers are amplifying their claims. Almost as soon as the shooting happened, conservative influencers were quick […]

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Watching Providence Retreat Into Itself After the Brown Shooting

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It has been four days since a man entered a finals review session inside a building at Brown University—two miles from my house in Providence, Rhode Island—and started shooting. The FBI, US Marshals, and police from across the state have descended on my neighborhood in a manhunt for the gunman. He killed two students, Ella […]

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Conservative Influencers Blame Brown University Shooting on a “Leftist Activist”

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On Saturday, a gunman opened fire on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, killing two students and wounding nine more. The shooter escaped, and students sheltered in place overnight as authorities tried to track down a person of interest who had appeared in a low-quality security camera video. One suspect was apprehended, […]

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“Unfathomable.” Hanukkah Massacre Shatters Australia’s Long-Held Pride on Guns and Safety.

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Phillip Abram is a lifelong resident of the Sydney, Australia, enclave Bondi Beach and a member of its world-famous surf club. The 59-year-old food sector worker starts every day, like many Sydney-siders, by plunging joyfully into the Pacific Ocean. “There are hundreds of Jewish people down there every morning that I know—middle-aged, elderly, young, community […]

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15 Dead in Hanukkah Terror Attack Amid Wave of Rising Antisemitism in Australia

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At least 15 people were killed, and more than three dozen hospitalized, in a shooting at Australia’s famous Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday in what the authorities are calling a terrorist attack at a Jewish holiday celebration.  One gunman has been killed and a second suspect is in custody and in critical condition, police […]

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Inside the $4 Billion Industry Built on America’s School Shooting Epidemic

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The entrepreneurs who are part of the booming school safety industry face a cruel irony: they are dependent on the uniquely American epidemic of school shootings. “Every time there is a shooting, we see an uptick in business,” says one, featured in the new HBO documentary Thoughts and Prayers, who sells bulletproof wall art and […]

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Maine Voters Approve New Law to Prevent Suicides and Mass Shootings

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Though it was hardly a national focal point of the 2025 elections on Tuesday, Maine became the twenty-second state to adopt a “red flag” law for regulating guns, with the approval of nearly 59 percent of voters. Starting in January, Maine will allow families to petition a judge to remove firearms temporarily from a family […]

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