News Wrap: Former Proud Boys leader indicted for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 probe
In our news wrap Monday, the former leader of the far-right Proud Boys group was charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 investigation, Russian forces continued their campaign to break through Ukrainian lines, gunmen in Nigeria who killed at…
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News Wrap: Russian airstrikes target Kyiv, interrupting weeks of calm
In our news wrap Sunday, Russian missiles targeted Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv for the first time in weeks, at least eight weekend shootings with multiple deaths and injuries took place in the U.S, an attack on a Catholic church in…
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Nationwide spike in gun violence reveals ‘very disturbing trends’
As the nation mourns the lives lost in Uvalde, Buffalo and Tulsa, Americans are also dealing with gun violence that does not make national news. Since Friday, there have been shootings with multiple people wounded or killed in Arizona, Virginia…
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Brooks and Capehart on the wave of gun violence in America
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join William Brangham to discuss the week in politics, including President Biden’s plea for “common sense” gun reform amid a spate of mass shootings and the potential…
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Communities affected by mass shootings face ‘reverberating loss’ in the years ahead
Gun violence and the lasting impacts of mass shootings in the U.S. have consumed much of the nation in recent weeks, after the massacres in New York, Texas, Oklahoma, and elsewhere. The New York Times’ Elizabeth Williamson, author of “Sandy…
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This former Colorado legislator was voted out of office after introducing gun safety bill
New gun regulations may be more likely to emerge out of state houses than in Washington. Nineteen states have now enacted extreme risk prevention orders, known as red flag laws, that allow guns to be temporarily seized if someone is…
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Congress debates gun safety legislation in the wake of the Uvalde school massacre
As the nation mourns the victims of mass shootings in Tulsa, Uvalde and Buffalo, President Biden is addressing the nation Thursday and urging Congress to pass “common sense” gun laws. This as the House Judiciary Committee reviewed a slate of…
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How other nations have dealt with gun safety following mass shootings
Canada unveiled legislation this week that would freeze new handgun purchases and create a mandatory buyback program for semi-automatic rifles. The announcement coincided with the funerals for 19 victims of the massacre in Uvalde, Texas, but it was years in…
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