SHERO on Sunday

A lightning-fast comprehensive rundown of the week's biggest events for February 10th - February 16th, 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 four separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where eight people were killed and 24 were injured.

1. Sunday, February 9, 2025: Woodland Hills, California

2. Monday, February 10, 2025: Byron, Wyoming

3. Wednesday, February 12 , 2025: St. Louis, Missouri

4. Saturday, February 15, 2025: Roanoke, Virginia

• US inflation increased by more than expected last month, as higher egg and energy prices helped to push up the cost of living for Americans.

  Inflation rose 3% in January, its highest rate for six months, and above the 2.9% expected by economists.

• Tesla has undergone unprecedented growth in Austin, Texas, over the past four-and-a-half years, the centerpiece of which is a 10-million-square-foot “gigafactory,” by some measures the world’s second-largest building. Undocumented workers have been a regular presence at the site since shortly after ground broke in 2020.

• The release of Kash Patel’s “enemies list” in his book has some people taking dramatic measures to protect themselves and their families, according to interviews with nearly a dozen people on Patel’s list or those who fear they’ll be scrutinized by the Patel-run FBI.

• Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of US elections have been placed on administrative leave, jeopardizing critical support provided to state and local election offices across the country.

• In response to Trump’s Kennedy Center takeover, actors, authors and other artists who were scheduled to hold events at Washington’s preeminent arts institution have begun backing out of scheduled appearances.

• The Trump administration ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work this week, effectively shutting down an agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal.