SHERO on Sunday
A lightning-fast recap of the week's most significant political and legal events for January 5th - 11th, 2025, before we are on to the next!
Welcome to the Sunday Recap, where you can quickly check in to review the week with a minimal time commitment and ensure you did not miss anything. Each snippet includes several links to credible and free sources, providing more details for those who want to delve deeper into any issue.
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Gun Violence This Week
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 events in the United States this past week, where 10 people were killed and 16 were injured.
Sunday, January 4, 2026: Louisville, Kentucky
Sunday, January 4, 2026: Talbot, Tennessee
Tuesday, January 6, 2026: Montgomery, Alabama
Wednesday, January 7, 2026: Salt Lake City, Utah
Friday, January 9, 2026: Cedarbluff, Mississippi
Donald Trump may be losing some support in his party amid his continued threats to take over Greenland, with nine Republican senators having spoken publicly against the idea this week, including Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell and Louisiana’s John Kennedy.
Trump gave a two-hour interview this week where he made it clear the United States will annex Venezuela for several years, as he tried to backtrack on his threats to Colombia.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump urged House Republicans to be “flexible” on the Hyde Amendment— the 50-year-old policy barring federal funding for most abortions — as GOP leaders search for a deal to lower health insurance costs before the midterms. Trump’s comments signal a notable softening on a long-held Republican policy as party leaders worry about voter backlash over rising Affordable Care Act premiums during an election year.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver on Wednesday during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major American city — a shooting that federal officials said was an act of self-defense but that the mayor described as reckless and unnecessary. The 37-year-old woman was shot in the head in front of a family member in a snowy residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, just a few blocks from some of the oldest immigrant markets and about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020.
