Welcome to the Sunday Recap, where you can quickly check in to review the week with minimal time commitment and ensure you don’t miss a thing. Each snippet includes several links to credible and free sources, providing more details for those who want to delve deeper into any issue. This kind of newsletter model, which provides free, reliable, independent journalism that connects the political and legal dots for everyone, only works if subscribers support our work with paid subscriptions. There is a lot to cover for this week, so let’s get started!
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 10 separate mass shooting events in the United States this past week, in which 13 people were killed and 33 were injured.
Sunday, August 9, 2026: Mexica, Texas
Tuesday, August 11. 2026: Winfield, Kansas
Tuesday, August 11. 2026: Wilmington, Delaware
Friday, August 14, 2026: Lake City, Michigan
Saturday, August 15, 2026: Kansas City, Missouri
Saturday, August 15, 2026: Chicago, Illinois
Saturday, August 15, 2026: Houston, Texas
Saturday, August 15, 2026: Lexington, Kentucky
Saturday, August 15, 2026: Petersburg, Virginia
Sunday, August 16, 2026: Hartford, Connecticut
Last month, the head of Belgium’s diamond industry presented Donald Trump with a gift: a specially made 18-karat gold ring worth an estimated $25,000, celebrating Trump’s two terms in office. Four weeks later, his administration approved a tariff exemption worth billions of dollars to Belgium’s diamond industry.
An Iranian assassination threat against Donald Trump prompted an extraordinary operation last month in which Trump flew secretly from Turkey on an alternate military aircraft. At the same time, the White House said he was aboard Air Force One, and the crew and staff continued, still at risk.
The Florida-based beef company, Corte Argentino USA LLC, recalled over 29,600 pounds of raw beef imported from Argentina this week that were delivered into Florida and Texas without a follow-up inspection after arriving in the US, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
