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(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — In the wake of the racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store a year ago this week, there was an outpouring of sympathy and support. Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the funeral for Ruth Whitfield, at 86 the oldest of the 10 Black victims, decrying the “epidemic of hate” in […]

(AUSTIN, Texas) — The rotunda of the Texas state Capitol echoed Monday morning with pleas from more than 160 activists who gathered in Austin to demand the legislature take action on gun reform. Monday marked the last day the Texas legislature could vote on House Bill 2744 — which would raise the age to buy […]

(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — While testifying in front of a federal commission last summer, Professor Henry Louis Taylor issued a startling summation of the evidence he said he’s drawn from the racially motivated May 14, 2022, mass shooting at a supermarket on Buffalo’s predominantly Black east side. Taylor, director of the Department of Urban and Regional […]

(DALLAS, Texas) — A mass shooting at a mall near Dallas on Saturday — which left nine dead, including the suspect, as well as seven injured — turned a shopping destination into a site of horrifying carnage. The attack comes less than a year after a gunman opened fire at a mall in Greenwood, Indiana, […]

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (DALLAS, Texas) — One person is dead and two are injured after a fight broke out between two people Sunday on a Dallas Area Rapid Transit train, a spokesperson said. A man involved in the altercation was transported but has since died, the statement said. The incident took place just south of […]

(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Ten people, all African American, were killed in a racially motivated mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, a year ago this week, an attack that shook the nation and underscored a rise in white supremacy across the country. The victims included mothers and grandmothers, a church deacon, a community […]

(NEW YORK) — The family of Jordan Neely, a homeless man who died after allegedly being put into a chokehold by Daniel Penny during an altercation on a New York City subway on May 1, has responded to Penny’s statement on the death. They called Penny’s response a “character assassination” of Neely. Attorneys for Penny […]

(NEW YORK) — A New York City judge imposed a protective order Monday in the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal case against former President Donald Trump that is meant to ensure evidence shared by the DA’s office doesn’t wind up on the internet. Trump pleaded not guilty last month to 34 felony counts of falsifying business […]

(NEW YORK) — An 8-year-old boy survived for two full days in a Michigan state park after he disappeared while collecting firewood Saturday on a family camping trip. Search party volunteers found 8-year-old Nante Niemi at 1:30 p.m. local time on Monday, and the boy has since been reunited with his family, according to the […]