SHERO on Sunday
Here's your lightning-fast comprehensive rundown of the week's biggest events for January 20th - 26th, 2025.
Welcome to the Sunday Recap, where you can quickly check in to review the week with a minimal time commitment, and make sure you did not miss anything. There are also several links within each snippet to give you more detail from credible and free sources if you want to dive deeper on any issue.
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Gun Violence This Week
According to the Gun Violence Archive, there were 503 mass shootings in the United States in 2024. Here at SHERO, we document all mass shooting incidents for the week every Sunday, so please take a moment to review them and remember to keep up the fight for sensible gun reform. There were five separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where two people were killed and 24 were injured.
Sunday, January 19, 2025: Boynton Beach, Florida
Tuesday, January 21, 2025: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Wednesday, January 22, 2025: Baltimore, Maryland
Wednesday, January 22, 2025: San Antonio, Texas
Wednesday, January 22, 2025: Los Angeles, California
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After more than 15 months of relentless Israeli air and ground assaults on Gaza, many of the tiny Palestinian enclave's 2 million residents are homeless and scrambling to obtain basic necessities. If last week's ceasefire holds, experts caution that rebuilding the devastated territory will take decades and cost tens of billions of dollars.
On Monday, Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders, including a government definition of the sexes that calls for the federal government to define gender as only male or female and for that to be reflected on official documents such as passports and policies such as federal prison assignments. You can read all of the new administrative orders here.
Just hours after President Trump's inauguration, his administration revoked a Biden-era policy that prohibited arrests by US immigration agents at or near schools, places of worship and other places deemed to be "sensitive locations."
Cecile Richards, the daughter of former powerhouse Texas Governor Ann Richards, one of the country’s most well-known defenders of abortion rights, died on Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 67.
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s newly sworn defense secretary, paid $50,000 to the woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017, according to answers he provided to a senator during his confirmation process.
Donald Trump issued pardons or commutations on Monday for more than 1,500 people convicted or charged in connection with the US Capitol riot four years ago. Trump also signed an order directing the Justice Department to drop all pending cases against suspects accused in the riot.
Elon Musk made a Nazi salute hand gesture on Monday during a Trump inaugural event and then appeared six days later at a surprise virtual appearance at a campaign event for Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, doubling down on his support for the group he has said can “save Germany” and telling a roaring crowd that “children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great-grandparents.”
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