Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is urging newsrooms to refrain from framing the purported prevalence of white supremacy and racism as a “debate” or “conflict,” giving tips to journalists covering the loaded topics in a series of tweets Monday.
Late-night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel went after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, or as the ABC host dubbed him, “Massacre Mitch,” over the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio and demanded he help pass gun control measures.
During an interview broadcast on Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden discussed whether President Trump’s rhetoric is responsible for the El Paso shooting and stated that Trump’s rhetoric almost legitimizes “people coming out from under the rocks.” And “his actions have done nothing to do anything other than encourage this kind of behavior.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Monday joined the chorus of Democrat lawmakers and corporate media personalities blaming President Donald Trump for the deadly shooting in El Paso, Texas, over the weekend, saying his discourse on immigration is “directly responsible” for the tragedy. The freshman congresswoman did not address how the Dayton, Ohio, shooter echoed her own controversial rhetoric on social media.
Robert Barnes told Breitbart News on Monday that he and his legal team are suing Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM), Reza Aslan, Matthew Dowd, Kathy Griffin, Maggie Haberman, Ana Navarro, and other news media figures for defamation on behalf of eight students from Covington, KY.
White House officials confirmed to NBC News that the president was planning to travel to El Paso and Dayton, Ohio this week.
Country music star Kacey Musgraves weighed in on the violent shootings that devastated communities in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend, speaking to the audience during her Lollapalooza performance and calling for somebody to “f*cking do something” to stop the carnage.
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) pushed back against President Trump for emphasizing the festering mental health crisis in the U.S. in the wake of the tragic shootings that took place in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend.
Democrat presidential hopeful and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took to Twitter on Monday to criticize President Donald Trump’s response to the pair of mass shootings that occured over the weekend.
2020 White House hopeful and former Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke (D-TX) is calling on President Donald Trump not to visit El Paso in the wake of the mass shooting in his former district where 22 people were killed and more than two dozen others were injured.
The former president specifically called for more gun control to help prevent more mass shootings.
China’s state-run media quickly seized on the obsessions of their American counterparts over the weekend by linking President Donald Trump to “white nationalism” and blaming gun violence on the large supply of firearms and loose gun laws in the United States.
Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley (D) jabbed President Donald Trump Monday for mistakenly offering condolences to another Ohio city, Toledo, in his planned address on the two mass shootings that unfolded over the weekend.
American Airlines is planning to donate $75,000 each to a Dayton, Ohio, and an El Paso, Texas, community organization in light of the recent mass shootings to help the communities rebuild from tragedy.
Celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is facing backlash from rock band Smash Mouth and gun control advocates after he took to Twitter to compare the number of deaths from the latest mass shootings to that of other causes, such as medical errors and suicide.
In Chicago this past weekend, more than 50 people were shot and seven killed in just a three-day period.
Author Stephen King reacted to the deadly shootings that ravaged El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend by lashing out at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), stating that the Kentucky lawmaker “should be charged as an accomplice in these deaths.”
President Donald Trump on Monday mistakenly referred to a shooting in Toledo, Ohio — instead of Dayton — in his address on a pair of mass shootings that occurred over the weekend.
Actor Mark Ruffalo has claimed that Americans are now too fearful to leave their homes for fear that they will be attacked by a murderous gunman.
Actor Bradley Whitford reacted to the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, by accusing President Donald Trump of “inspiring the wholesale slaughter of American citizens.”
A Florida man is accused of threatening to gun down people inside a Walmart just 24 hours after a gunman massacred 20 at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart store.
The White House issued a proclamation Sunday ordering flags be flown at half-staff in memory of the victims of the mass shootings over the weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
Fired FBI Director James Comey is accusing President Donald Trump of attempting to “exploit” racism as part of a strategy to win re-election in 2020 in the wake of a pair of deadly shootings.
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — High school classmates of the gunman who killed nine people early Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, say he was suspended for compiling a “hit list” of those he wanted to kill and a “rape list” of girls he wanted to sexually assault.
Former Vice President Joe Biden suffered yet another gaffe Sunday evening, mistakenly referring to Houston and Michigan as the sites of two mass shootings over the weekend.
President Donald Trump proposed Monday that Congress pass a bill that united more background checks for guns and immigration reform in the wake of the mass shootings in Ohio and Texas over the weekend.
The NRA emailed a statement on Sunday in which they rejected efforts to politicize the Texas and Ohio shooting attacks while praising the “courage” of first responders.
“The Office” star Rainn Wilson responded to the recent mass shootings in Texas and Ohio by warning that the “biggest threat” to the American people are “angry white men with guns.”
El Paso County Sheriff Richard Wiles says he is “outraged” after “this Anglo man came here to kill Hispanics.” His comment came in a Facebook post after a man from Allen, Texas, traveled nearly nine hours to El Paso where he is now accused of killing 20 people and wounding 26 more.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was treated and released after he tripped on his patio at his Kentucky home on Sunday.
Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush released a statement Saturday calling “white terrorists” a “real and present threat” in the wake of the El Paso, Texas, shooting and stressed that they should be defeated.
Actress and singer Mandy Moore said politicians who are not actively advocating greater gun control are “not fit to represent us,” in the wake of two mass shootings that have killed at least 29 people.
Grammy-winning singer John Legend appeared to place blame for the string of deadly mass shootings across the country in the past 24 hours at the feet of President Donald Trump, saying Sunday “he is a part of the problem.”
An Army soldier is being hailed as a hero for saving the lives of several children during the shooting in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday.
El Paso prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against the man who allegedly killed 20 people and wounded 26 others in the mass-casualty shooting on Saturday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says they will treat the shooting “as domestic terrorism.”
Police in Dayton, Ohio, announced Sunday morning that a gunman who opened fire in a crowd was shot and killed in less than 60 seconds.
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” in the aftermath of two mass shootings, 2020 Democratic Party presidential hopeful former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) accused President Donald Trump and Fox News of “encouraging” violence. O’Rourke said, “We have to acknowledge
Two mass shootings in the United States have claimed 29 lives within 24 hours and left dozens of others injured and hospitalized for treatment.
Several news sources reported a mass shooting event in Dayton, Ohio, in the early hours of Sunday morning — just hours after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, in which at least 20 people were killed and 26 were wounded.
President Donald Trump condemned Saturday’s deadly shooting in El Paso, Texas, as “an act of cowardice” and expressed condolences to the people of the Lone Star State.
