SHERO on Sunday

A lightning-fast comprehensive rundown of the week's biggest events for January 27th - February 2nd, 2025.

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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

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 six separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where eight people were killed and 26 were injured.

1. Sunday, January 26, 2025: Richmond, Virginia

2. Sunday, January 26, 2025: Amarillo, Texas

3. Monday, January 27, 2025: Elkhart, Indiana

4. Wednesday, January 29, 2025: Memphis, Tennessee

5. Friday, January 31, 2025: Los Angeles, California

6. Saturday, February 1, 2025: Clatskanie, Oregon

• Egg restrictions, shortages and record-high prices are happening at supermarkets across the US as a deadly strain of avian flu continues to decimate the country's poultry flocks, which likely means even higher egg prices in 2025.

• The Trump administration has paused grant, loan and other financial assistance programs at the Office of Management and Budget, including programs related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), through documents that Donald Trump has signed since taking office last week.