SHERO on Sunday

Welcome to a lightning-fast comprehensive recap of the week's biggest events for October 14th - 20th, 2024.

Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned this week across several swing states in the United States. (Photo 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 three separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where four people were killed and 17 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. Monday, October 14, 2024: Detroit, Michigan

2. Saturday, October 19, 2024: Lexington, Mississippi

3. Saturday, October 19, 2024: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Be sure to join me on Tuesday, October 22nd at 7:00 pm/ET to support the Harris/Walz Campaign! It will be a special evening as writers across genres and disciplines will discuss why they support Vice President Kamala Harris for president, and why it's so important for writers and readers to get involved in this final stretch. Sign up here.

  

• A recent study has determined that in the year following the ban on abortion in 2021, infant deaths in Texas increased dramatically, especially among infants with congenital anomalies. Read my latest here.

• Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has endorsed Donald Trump for president, but in a new book, the powerful Kentucky Republican is quoted after the 2020 election disparaging Trump as a “despicable human being,” “stupid” and “ill-tempered."

• If you are an attorney who would like to get involved with protecting the vote in the lead up to this next election, join me and sign up now with We the Action to get involved and find an assignment.

• Democratic candidates across the 10 top Senate battlegrounds raised a collective $203 million in the last quarter, which is nearly 2.5 times the $83 million brought in by Republicans.

• According to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland, there were more than 480 people with a military background accused of ideologically driven, extremist crimes from 2017 through 2023, which includes the more than 230 arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection.

• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center confirmed this week that there is a 60% chance that a weak La Nina event will develop this autumn and could last until March.