SHERO on Sunday

Welcome to a lightning-fast comprehensive recap of the week's biggest events for October 28th -November 3rd, 2024.

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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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Another quick reminder: this week is election week! The SHERO publishing schedule will be based on the election results, and sending out critical information as it arrives. For live updates on all things election related, be sure to follow my Twitter feed here. You can also check out my “managing election anxiety” inspired playlist here. Election bonus: download and print out this “election cheat sheet” to keep track of all of the critical election results you will be watching on Tuesday.

Gun Violence This Week

There were 10 separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where nine people were killed and 42 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, October 27, 2024: Redding, California

2. Sunday, October 27, 2024: Clarksdale, Mississippi

3. Sunday, October 27, 2024: Kalamazoo, Michigan

4. Monday, October 28, 2024: Memphis, Tennessee

5. Wednesday, October 30, 2024: Dade City, Florida

6. Thursday, October 31, 2024: Wilmington, Delaware

7. Friday, November 1, 2024: New Haven, Connecticut

8. Friday, November 1, 2024: Denver, Colorado

9. Friday, November 1, 2024: Orlando, Florida

10. Saturday, November 2, 2024: Reno, Nevada

• Donald Trump hosted a rally last Sunday featuring crude and racist insults at New York’s Madison Square Garden, turning what his campaign had dubbed as the event where he would deliver his closing message into an illustration of what turns off his critics.

  

• Despite the Department of Justice's long-held tradition of deploying election monitors across the country to "help assess compliance with federal voting laws," Republicans in some states have blocked federal authorities from monitoring elections inside the polling facilities.

• Nevaeh Crain, 18, died in Texas due to complications stemming from a pregnancy and her inability to get basic medical treatment due to her state’s abortion ban.

• Alongside its now nixed endorsement of Kamala Harris, the Los Angeles Times editorial board had also planned a multi-part series against Donald Trump, before the whole thing was quashed by the Trump-supporting Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong.

• Robert Kagan, The Washington Post’s former editor-at-large and longtime columnist who resigned from his post last Friday, made explosive claims this week that its owner Jeff Bezos struck a deal with Donald Trump in order to kill the newspaper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris.

• The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office is continuing to investigate suspected fraudulent voter registration applications in Pennsylvania this week, to determine who may have participated in the organized effort to submit approximately 2,500 voter registration applications at or near the deadline for registering to vote.