Over the last two years, a murder-suicide or family annihilation has occurred 1.8 times per day on average.
Over the last two years, a murder-suicide or family annihilation has occurred 1.8 times per day on average.
Domestic shootings in Louisiana and Virginia have seized the nation's attention. But murder-suicide happens more often than you may think.
There are an average of 1.5 gun-related murder-suicides a day, according to Gun Violence Archive — and the majority stem from intimate partner violence.
Trace senior news writer @jenmascia.bsky.social analyzed all of Trump's pardons and found that he forgave $113 million in fines and penalties that would have gone to help victims of violent crime
Trump's pardons are depriving the Crime Victims Fund of vital revenue.
So far $113M in criminal fines has been forgiven that could have gone to shooting survivors and other victims of violent crime.
My latest, w/@us.theguardian.com:
Renita Francois is the city’s first deputy mayor for community safety and will oversee the newly created Mayor’s Office of Community Safety.
Read my interview with her:
www.thetrace.org/2026/04/reni...
Through the first three months of 2026, shooting deaths are down to their lowest Q1 level in over a decade, according to a data analysis by @thetrace.org
Even with the decline, gun violence continues to occur daily nationwide.
Jesus was also kind of weak on crime
Officials and experts have concluded that at the end of U.S. and Israel's Big Beautiful Bombing campaign...
"Iran still has most of the tools it needs to make a nuclear bomb."
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz made an unannounced visit to the Everglades concentration camp where she describes the inhumane conditions she witnessed.
Gun industry lawsuits may be part of a revived consumer protection movement. States are also cracking down on Big Tech, health care companies, and others. Just last month, juries in two states delivered landmark verdicts holding Meta and Google liable for harming young users on their platforms.
Thinking about how if I'm nauseated today by a threat to wipe Persian civilization off the map, what it is like for the people of this region, already dealing with horrors under this regime, and the Iranian diaspora here and all over the world. Of those positioned to intervene, no one does anything
Think about where our world would be if Mitch McConnell and 9 other Republicans had taken a different course 5 years ago
www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/p...
This is a far simpler answer than people would like to believe.
Trump issues the order via the National Military Command Center to the commander of Strategic Command, and then STRATCOM carries it out directly. There is no second vote, no veto, no check-and-balance.
I wish we didn't live in a world where this kind of innovation was needed. www.wsj.com/business/a-s...
Around six months ago, a 9-year-old boy was shot and killed inside a home in Springfield, Illinois.
The case is still unsolved.
But what stood out, especially in a city this size, was the silence around it.
For @thetrace.org I went to Springfield to understand why 🧵
NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.
Could be worse. We could have had a woman president.
New joint investigation between @bellingcat.com @calmatters.org @evidentmedia.org where we identified agents causing chaos and violence across the country. These guys were some of the worst repeat offenders we saw.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
anyone see a contradiction here? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...
Have you heard of trauma deserts? The term refers to an area that lacks the comprehensive medical care essential for gunshot victims.
In Chicago, the 2018 reopening of a Level 1 trauma center on the city’s South Side filled this gap. A study found that it decreased gun-related deaths by 4 percent.
Fifteen years after Jordan Costa first grieved her dad, she learned that the violence prevention work she'd dedicated herself to could save others like him.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger just oversaw the passage of 25 gun reform bills.
The measures include a ban on assault weapons, imposed penalties for leaving unsecured guns around children, and an expansion of the state’s red flag law.
Read more: thetr.ac/0wXW8
ICE: We’re going to put a 7,500-person detention center near the Salt Lake City airport.
Salt Lake City: Hope you weren’t counting of getting much water for it.
www.sltrib.com/news/2026/03...
one maddening thing about all of this is the conservative idea that "election day" has always meant a single day until recently, which is nonsense. 19th century elections often took place over the course of an entire month, with results trickling out over time.
NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Community colleges get way less in per-pupil funding than public universities. But they're wildly successful engines of social mobility. 1/
oaklandside.org/2026/03/23/e...
Astonishing. The goal of our war is now to undo the effect of the war we started.
Gosh, if only we could rewind to, say, four weeks ago when the Strait of Hormuz was open and normal!
Researcher David Redman recently published an exchange he had with ChatGPT that shows how the system can plan a school shooting.
His experiment exposes the dangerous gaps between how AI systems are designed to prevent harm and how they can behave in practice.