SHERO on Sunday

Welcome to a lightning-fast comprehensive recap of the week's biggest events for September 9th-15th, 2024.

US President Joe Biden speaks during an event celebrating the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 16, 2022. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm/via Getty Images)

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 four separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where eight people were killed and 14 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. Thursday, September 12, 2024: Suffolk, Virginia

2. Friday, September 13, 2024: Antioch, Tennessee

3. Saturday, September 14, 2024: Louisville, Kentucky

4. Saturday, September 14, 2024: Houston, Texas

• Be sure to check your state's voter registration deadline today and make sure you're registered and ready to vote, and then share this link with your friends and family so everyone's ready to vote early or by Election Day.

• According to a Gallup analysis of more than 20 years of polling data, young women are more liberal than they have been in years — the number of young women who hold liberal views on environment, abortion, race, and gun laws has jumped by double digits.

• According to the Adobe Digital Price Index, online grocery prices fell 3.7% in August from a month earlier, which is the largest decline since the firm began tracking the numbers in 2014.

• Gov. DeSantis is targeting Florida voters who signed an abortion rights amendment petition for state ballots this fall, by sending police officers to the homes of signatories to interrogate voters.