SHERO on Sunday

Here's your lightning-fast comprehensive rundown of the week's biggest events for December 9th- 15th, 2024.

Daniel Penny, the former veteran who got away with killing a black man on a New York Subway car, was rewarded by Trump and Vance with a photo op at the Army Navy football game after a jury could not reach a decision in his manslaughter case. (Photo by Dan Scavino on X)

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 two separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where three people were killed and five 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.

1. Sunday, December 8, 2024: Cicero, Illinois

2. Tuesday, December 10, 2024: Lake Worth, Florida

• More than 1,100 people drowned crossing the Rio Grande between 2017 and 2023 — hundreds more than the US or Mexico reported, but many migrants targeted for removal by Trump can’t be deported due to legal and logistical obstacles as he pledges mass deportations.

  

• Hours after rebel forces seized control of Damascus, it was reported by Russian state media that Bashar al-Assad and his family had arrived in Moscow and that they would be granted asylum on "humanitarian grounds."