SHERO on Sunday
Welcome to a lightning-fast comprehensive recap of the week's biggest events for November 18th -November 24th, 2024.
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Gun Violence This Week
There were five separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where two people were killed and 24 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.
Sunday, November 17, 2024: Columbus, Ohio
Sunday, November 17, 2024: Sandy Hook, Mississippi
Sunday, November 17, 2024: New Orleans, Louisiana
Monday, November 18, 2024: Denver, Colorado
Thursday, November 21, 2024: New Orleans, Louisiana
When an investigation failed to identify those responsible for the leak of confidential information, Georgia officials dissolved a committee responsible for investigating deaths of pregnant women in the state, claiming one or more members leaked confidential information about deaths linked to the state's strict abortion laws. More background on this story here:
The House Ethics Committee obtained records this week, including a check and records of Venmo payments, that appear to show that Representative Matt Gaetz paid more than $10,000 to two women who were later witnesses in sexual misconduct probes conducted by both the US House of Representatives and the Department of Justice.
The Chief Executive of Delta Air Lines says the incoming Trump administration will be a “breath of fresh air” for airlines after what he calls government “overreach” under President Joe Biden. The airline industry has struggled with consumer-protection regulations imposed by the Biden administration, and Delta is also facing a federal investigation into its slow recovery from a global technology outage this summer.
Trump announced last Sunday that he has selected Brendan Carr, a Republican on the Federal Communications Commission who wrote a chapter on the regulatory agency in the conservative Project 2025 playbook, to be the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman. (Note: the Conservative US Supreme Court wasted no time in taking on a case this week that, if overturned, could help out Carr and a lot of Trump’s cronies looking for deregulation.)
Elon Musk has quickly become an influential figure in President-elect Trump's inner circle, but there are signs of tension between Musk and a longtime Trump adviser over Cabinet appointments to the new administration. The friction between Musk and Boris Epshteyn — a top adviser who's pushed for Cabinet picks that include Matt Gaetz for attorney general — surfaced in public last week, signaling a rivalry stemming from Musk's growing influence, to the dismay of some Trump loyalists.
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