NRA Cuts More Operating Costs—and Lavishes Executives With Perks
NRA Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierreOlivier Douliery/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The National Rifle Association paid more than $100,000 in personal expenses for an official who is now leading an austerity campaign within the organization, new tax filings show. The official, Josh Powell, is the NRA’s executive…
Police Acknowledge They Killed the Wrong Person in Alabama Mall Shooting
ABC 33/40/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thanksgiving night Hoover, Alabama, police shot and killed 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., who was known as E.J., at a shopping mall after an altercation left an 18-year-old and a 12-year-old with gun shot injuries. Around 10:00 p.m. at the Riverchase Galleria mall…
A Gunman Targeted Their Church, Here’s How They Remember that Day
fstop123/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In late October a few hours after the weekly noontime Bible study, Travis Hines didn’t know that a gunman was outside. The 43-year-old Family Life Director at the First Baptist Church in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, was inside the church with a few of his colleagues, when a…
The NRA Just Killed Free Coffee for Its Employees
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The National Rifle Association is doing away with free coffee and water coolers for employees at its Fairfax, Virginia, headquarters—a cost-cutting move that has NRA insiders perturbed. “The whole building was freaking out,” said one former employee who remains in contact with current…
A Gunman Opened Fire. This Man Acted Quickly—And Saved Dozens of Lives.
Holden Harrah, left, hugs Matt Wennerstom, right, after the mass shooting at Borderline bar in Thousand Oaks, California.Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images Matt Wennerstrom was at a bar with his friends when a gunman started firing. First, the 20-year-old ushered people behind a pool table. Then, as the gunman reloaded, Wennerstrom threw a barstool through…
Their Lives Were Forever Changed by Gun Violence. So They Ran for Office and Won.
Lucy McBath speaks at a rally in Atlanta on Friday, Nov. 2, 2018.Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In one sense, Election Day was a bit of a letdown for the Parkland survivors-turned-activists. The March for Our Lives teens had led the biggest protest in US…