Four Key Questions Still Loom Over the Trump Shooting
Trump speaks at the RNC in Milwaukee, July 18, 2024Mark Hertzberg/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. One certainty about the assassination attempt two weeks ago on former President Donald Trump is that rampant conspiracy theories about it will endure—probably forever. The fascination with…
Trump Again Demonizes Migrants for “Poisoning Our Country”
Trump visits the US-Mexico border in Texas on Feb. 29, 2024.Eric Gay/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Donald Trump called into Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Monday night, where the two talked about the biggest topic in political media: Joe Biden’s shockingly…
Kyle Rittenhouse, Killer of Two, Cheers as Supreme Court Ends Bump Stock Ban
Kyle RittenhouseSipa USA via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Gun rights activist Kyle Rittenhouse wants you to know that he’s very pleased with the Supreme Court, after the justices on Friday overturned a federal ban on bump stocks—devices that are attached to…
Sandy Hook Survivors Are Graduating. Here’s What Hasn’t Changed Since the 2012 Massacre.
Some of the victims of the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School will graduate high school on Wednesday night. Phillip Vaughan/Ace Pictures/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When the seniors at Newtown High School in Connecticut graduate on Wednesday, 20 peers…
The Trouble With Convicting Parents for Their Children’s Violent Crimes
Carlos Osorio/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.While some advocates have heralded a Michigan jury’s decision to convict Jennifer Crumbley of involuntary manslaughter as an important step in the right direction to stop mass shootings, others fear the legal precedent will stretch far beyond…
School Shooter’s Mother Convicted in Historic Manslaughter Trial
Jennifer Crumbley testifies in an Oakland County, Mich., courtroom, Feb. 1, 2024Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In a historic decision on Tuesday, a jury convicted the first parent ever to be tried on homicide charges for a mass shooting committed…