Celebrity Life
How the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Verdict Could Devastate the Work of Black Lives Matter Activists
On the surface, the jury’s Nov. 19 verdict in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse was all too simple. His defense team successfully pled the case that Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed two people during a night of protests and unrest in Kenosha last August. But Rittenhouse’s reasons for being in…
Alex Jones Loses Defamation Suit Brought by Families of Sandy Hook Shooting Victims
The ruling was the fourth time that Alex Jones, who has claimed the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax, has been found guilty of defamation
The Rust Film Armorer Says Someone May Have Put a Bullet in the Gun That Killed Halyna Hutchins
Hannah Gutierrez Reed says doesn’t know how a bullet ended up in the gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
Supreme Court Appears To Lean Toward Expanding Gun Rights
The newly conservative court is considering a case that would overturn a New York state law that limits the carrying of concealed weapons outside of the home
Here Are the Criminal Charges Kyle Rittenhouse Faces
Rittenhouse shot three men, killing two of them, during a police brutality protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin last year
The Rust Assistant Director Who Handed Alec Baldwin the Loaded Gun Hopes for Industry Change
Assistant director David Halls has broken his silence following the Oct. 21 fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins
The Families of the Charleston Massacre Victims Just Settled With the Justice Department for a Meaningful $88 Million
The families of the nine victims who were killed in a racist attack on a South Carolina church in 2015 reached an $88 million settlement with the Justice Department on Thursday. The deal, which still faces a judge’s final approval, was reached after the families and survivors of the attack alleged that the FBI’s delay…
Nikolas Cruz to Plead Guilty to Parkland School Shooting
(FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) — The gunman who killed 14 students and three staff members at a Parkland, Florida, high school will plead guilty to their murders, his attorneys said Friday, bringing some closure to a South Florida community more than three years after an attack that sparked a nationwide movement for gun control. The guilty…
The Complex Dynamic Between ‘Violence Interrupters’ and Police
Just off a stretch of Eastern Parkway, the highway-like street that goes through many of Brooklyn, New York’s most disenfranchised neighborhoods, is a small office in Crown Heights. What fills this small space is vital to the community. It’s the Crown Heights location for Save Our Streets (SOS), an activist group dedicated to combating gun…
In ‘Alarming’ Trend, More People Than Ever Are Trying to Carry Guns Onto Planes
So far in 2021, the Transportation Security Administration has seized nearly 4,500 guns at airport security checkpoints, compared with about 4,400 in all of 2019 and 976 in 2009, despite the drop in air travel caused by the pandemic
He Was Shot by a Stranger but Treated Like a Criminal When He Reached the ER
Only about 5% of practicing doctors in the U.S. are Black, and more than 56% are white, a situation that enables racism in hospital care and fuels Black mistrust of the system as COVID-19 and gun violence take a disproportionate toll on communities of color
Capital Gazette Gunman Gets Multiple Life in Prison Sentences
(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — A man who killed five people at a newspaper in Maryland was sentenced on Tuesday to more than five life sentences without the possibility of parole. Anne Arundel County Judge Michael Wachs ordered the sentence for Jarrod Ramos, whom a jury previously found criminally responsible for killing Wendi Winters, John McNamera, Gerald…