SHERO on Sunday

Here's your lightning-fast comprehensive rundown of the week's biggest events for January 13th - 19th, 2025.

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's choice to be Defense Secretary, appears during a tense Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Jan 14, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/via Getty Images)

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Gun Violence This Week

According to the Gun Violence Archive, there were 503 mass shootings in the United States in 2024. 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. There were two separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where four people were killed and four were injured.

1. Sunday, January 12, 2025: Omaha, Nebraska

2. Tuesday, January 14, 2025: Houston, Texas

3. Saturday, January 18, 2024: New Orleans, Louisiana

• Donald Trump’s incoming presidential administration plans to launch a large immigration raid in Chicago the day after he takes office, where federal immigration officers will target more than 300 people, marking Trump’s initial attempt toward fulfilling his campaign promise of large-scale deportations.

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr., reportedly sought to block the historic and pioneering new Covid-19 vaccinations in 2021, six months after they began being rolled out at the height of the pandemic, when many thousands of people were dying of the virus.

• Mark Zuckerberg, announced this week that he had decided to “move out low-performers faster,” ahead of what he said would be an “intense year,” and would be accelerating the company’s usual performance management system to create layoffs. The announcement came just days after Meta said it would get rid of third-party fact checkers and would prioritize free speech, as Trump prepares to return to the White House.

• In the year preceding the devastating Los Angeles county wildfires, big oil fiercely lobbied to kill a “polluter pay” bill that moved through the California Senate, which would have forced major fossil fuel companies to help cover the costs of climate disasters.