SHERO on Sunday

Here's your lightning-fast comprehensive rundown of the week's biggest events for December 16th- 22nd, 2024.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Donald Trump share a moment as they attend a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, PA. (Photo by Alex Brandon/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. SHERO will be taking a holiday break for the next week, but will return in full force the week after to bring you all of the critical news you don’t want to hear.

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Gun Violence This Week

There were four separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where six people were killed and 20 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 15, 2024: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2. Sunday, December 15, 2024: New Orleans, Louisiana

3. Monday, December 16, 2024: Madison, Wisconsin

4. Tuesday, December 17, 2024: Towson, Maryland

• Be sure to check out my latest interview with Thom Hartmann on how Trump really won the 2024 election and who is really behind this appearance of organization amongst the Republican Party right now:

• Roughly the same percentages of Americans have favorable views of both Elon Musk and Donald, according to a new poll from the Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

• There has been a recent rise in infant mortality rates since the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, with the greatest increases among infants born with congenital anomalies, and this surge may be linked to abortion restrictions forcing more high-risk pregnancies to term.

• President Joe Biden endorsed a ban on congressional stock trading in an interview that’s being released this week, belatedly weighing in on an issue that has been debated on Capitol Hill for years.

• The House Ethics Committee voted in secret earlier this month to release the long-awaited ethics report into ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), so we should expect the report to be released sometime soon.

• Elon Musk and SpaceX face at least three federal reviews over whether they have complied with federal reporting rules aimed at protecting national security, and this is not the first time the SpaceX founder's security practices have been questioned by the Pentagon.