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Monday night, Lana Del Rey shared an impromptu video of her singing a new song she was inspired to write following this weekend’s back-to-back mass shootings. The song, titled “Looking for America,” sees Lana “singing love to the choruses” she recorded earlier that morning. In an Instagram caption, Lana detailed just how quickly the piece came together […]
Chicago’s Mount Sinai Hospital was forced to temporarily go “on bypass” Sunday morning after victims from a series of shootings left their trauma center at full capacity, CNN reports. The term “on bypass” refers to when a hospital can no longer perform ambulance runs, and must divert any new patients to another nearby trauma center. Chicago reportedly has five trauma centers in total. According […]
Following the mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso that left innocent people 20 dead, Mexico is considering legal action for what they are directly calling a terrorist attack. “The fact that Mexicans have lost their lives, forces us to take the corresponding legal actions with respect to arms,” Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said of […]
With two mass shooting devastating the U.S. within just 14 hours of one another, people are once again contemplating the gun crisis in America. And it is a crisis, as CBS pointed out that there have been more mass shootings this year than days. To be more specific, there have been 251 mass shootings this year, in only 216 days. […]
8chan founder Fredrick Brennan is calling for the shutdown of the website following Saturday’s El Paso Walmart shooting, the New York Times reports. Patrick Crusius, the suspected gunman who has already been charged with capital murder, posted a four-page manifesto on the site minutes before carrying out the horrific act which resulted in 20 people being killed and 26 more injured. […]
That’s one way for an athlete to ensure that their voice is heard. On Sunday, Philadelphia Union midfielder Alejandro Bedoya scored a goal in the early minutes of his club’s nationally televised MLS match against D.C. United, and after celebrating with his teammates, Bedoya walked over to a field mic, and yelled, “Congress, do something now. End gun violence. Let’s go!” […]
The seemingly endless flood of bad news can make a few short years feel like an eternity ago and it doesn’t help when top politicians start trotting out ’90s talking points in response to this weekend’s tragedies. But that’s just what House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is doing. The highest-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives […]
Afton Williamson explained on Instagram Sunday, why she left ABC’s The Rookie, where she played one of the show’s main characters, Talia Bishop. In a lengthy message posted Sunday, Williamson revealed that she was subjected to racial discrimination by the hair department, and bullying from the show’s executive producers dating as far back as filming of the pilot episode. Williamson claims she was sexually […]
On Saturday, a gunman opened fire in an El Paso, Texas Walmart, killing 20 people and injuring 26 others. Among those killed in the shooting, which was the first of two deadly mass shootings in less than 24 hours, was 25-year-old mother of three, Jordan Anchondo. As the Associated Press reports, her 19-year-old sister Leta […]
Nine people were killed and more than two dozen have been injured as the result of a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, according to police. The incident took place shortly after 1 a.m. local time outside the Ned Peppers bar on East Fifth Street in Dayton’s Oregon entertainment district. Per Dayton’s mayor, Nan Whaley, this area is frequented by […]
