SHERO on Sunday
Welcome to a lightning-fast comprehensive recap of the week's biggest events for May 27th-June 2nd, 2024.
Welcome everyone 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
There were 15 separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where 17 people were killed and 83 were injured. 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.
Sunday, May 26, 2024: Kansas City, Missouri
Sunday, May 26, 2024: Cleveland, Ohio
Sunday, May 26, 2024: Chicago, Illinois
Monday, May 27, 2024: Lansing, Michigan
Monday, May 27, 2024: Richmond, Virginia
Monday, May 27, 2024: Sacramento, California
Tuesday, May 28, 2024: Waterbury, Connecticut
Thursday, May 30, 2024: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Thursday, May 30, 2024: Eldridge, Maryland
Thursday, May 30, 2024: Decatur, Georgia
Friday, June 1, 2024: Detroit, Michigan
Friday, June 1, 2024: San Tan Villiage, Arizona
Sunday, June 2: 2024: Akron, Ohio
Sunday, June 2: 2024: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sunday, June 2: 2024: Louisville, Kentucky
Jenna Ellis, former President Trump's onetime legal advisor, had her Colorado law license suspended for three years on Tuesday for her efforts to try to subvert Georgia's 2020 election results.
Pope Francis, the most liberal leader the Catholic Church has ever had, apologized on Tuesday after he was quoted using a vulgar and derogatory term about gay men to reaffirm the Catholic Church’s ban on gay priests.
The U.S. military has been forced to suspend aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip by sea after its temporary pier system off Gaza suffered damage in bad weather, the Defense Department confirmed Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, wrote to Congress to explain that he was refusing to recuse himself from Trump v US, the current Supreme Court case that addresses Donald Trump’s claim that as a former president he has absolute immunity from prosecution over his role in the Capitol insurrection on 6 January 2021.
The Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute announced on Wednesday that the zoo will receive 2 new giant pandas by the end of this year from China through an agreement with the China Wildlife Conservation Association (CWCA).
Following the official results from Wednesday’s vote, South Africa's once dominant African National Congress — the party that ended the racially divisive era of apartheid — acknowledged that it had been humbled by an election that ended its 30-year majority, but vowed not to replace their current leader as a condition to forming a new governing coalition.
In a unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of the NRA, which "plausibly alleged" that the New York Regulator violated the First Amendment by coercing entities to end their business relationships with the NRA.
Fourteen Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were found guilty on Thursday in a landmark subversion trial that comes more than three years after police arrested 47 democrats in dawn raids at homes across the city accusing protestors of violating national security law.
Senator Joe Manchin (WV), who considered an independent presidential bid earlier this year, officially left the Democratic Party on Friday and formally registered as an independent.
Marian Shields Robinson, the mother of former First Lady Michelle Obama, who moved with the first family to the White House when son-in-law Barack Obama was elected president, died on Friday at the age of 86.
Former President of the United States Donald J. Trump was convicted on 34 charges of falsifying business records on Friday afternoon under New York Law § 175.10, which is a “Class E” felony punishable by a fine, probation or up to four years in prison per count. For more on this read my latest here:
On Sunday morning, Donald Trump gave his first exclusive interview regarding his criminal conviction, where he was not shown live as usual, but heavily edited. You can watch the clip of the interview embedded in the video below:
Amee Vanderpool writes the SHERO Newsletter, is an attorney, published author, contributor to newspapers and magazines, and an analyst for BBC radio. She can be reached at avanderpool@gmail.com or follow her on Twitter @girlsreallyrule.
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