SHERO on Sunday
Welcome to a lightning-fast comprehensive recap of the week's biggest events for September 23rd -29th, 2024.
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
There were three separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where 13 people were killed and 46 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.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024: Los Angeles, California
Thursday, September 26, 2024: Chicago, Illinois
Saturday, September 28, 2024: Washington, DC
Derrick Anderson, the Republican running in a competitive race for an open seat in Virginia’s Seventh District, has used footage of himself with a woman and her three daughters, meant to look like his family for his campaign materials — even though he is not related to any of them.
In direct messages — sent during Trump’s final year in office to an acquaintance over the social media platform then known as Twitter — running mate JD Vance harshly criticized Trump’s record of governance and said Trump had not fulfilled his economic agenda.
This week, NASA released new images from the Perseverance Rover on Mars.
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