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'Can we please get a grip?': Robert Reich calls for unity after baseball practice shooting

Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich called for unity in the aftermath of the shooting on Wednesday morning at a Republican baseball practice. He decried those who are rushing to politicize the shooting like Donald Trump Jr. who blamed "liberal hate speech" for the shooting, which injured five, including Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA).

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Mother of Aurora shooting victim rips Alex Jones: Is baseball shooting a 'false flag' attack too?

The mother of a woman gunned down in a Colorado movie theater had harsh words for right-wing provocateur Alex Jones on Wednesday after a gunman opened fire on a Congressional baseball practice.

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‘No threat to persons or community’: Florida judge grants bail to neo-Nazi arrested with bomb-making materials

A federal judge in Florida has granted bail to a self-professed neo-Nazi who was taken into custody last month by police who discovered bomb-making materials, weapons and ammo in the his Tampa apartment, reports Fox 13.

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Portland GOP head threatens to hire armed right-wing militia members as security force to protect Republicans

In light of the recent stabbing deaths of two men in Portland by a white nationalist -- and constant local street brawls between neo-Nazi groups and anti-fascist protesters -- the chairman of Portland's GOP party said he would consider hiring armed right-wing militia members as bodyguards to protect Republicans on the street.

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Texas Republican posts Facebook threat to shoot Hispanic lawmaker after squabble in legislature

A Republican Texas lawmaker who called Immigration and Customs Enforcement to round up protesters at a rally at the Texas capital on Monday, posted a threat on Facebook to shoot a fellow lawmaker.

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New public database reveals striking differences in how guns are regulated from state to state

New public database reveals striking differences in how guns are regulated from state to state

By Michael Siegel, Professor of Community Health Sciences, Boston University and Molly Pahn, Research Manager, Boston University. Anti-gun protestors rally in Washington, D.C. in July 2016. Patsy Lynch/MediaPunch/IPX From 2014 to 2015, the United States experienced its largest annual increase in firearm deaths over the past 35 years, a 7.8 percent upturn in a single year.…

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Jail inmate grabs gun, takes hostage at Illinois hospital

A jail inmate receiving treatment at a hospital near Chicago grabbed his guard's gun and took a female hospital employee hostage on Saturday, according to local officials and media reports.

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Father of slain Dallas-area teen Jordan Edwards sues officer for killing his son

The father of a black teenage boy fatally shot in the head while in a car that was driving away from a policeman has sued the Dallas-area officer for excessive force over the incident that has stoked simmering debate about racial bias in U.S. policing.

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Arkansas woman hit with weapons charge for pulling gun on teen who was sexually abusing a dog

We’ve seen a husband explain that he had sex with the family dog out of spite. We’ve seen a girlfriend walk in her boyfriend early in the morning getting it on with a dog. And we’ve seen former animal shelter employees get caught filming a sex act with a dog at shelter itself. RELATED: An Alabama…

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Cleveland police union to sue toy gun producers: media

Cleveland's police union will file a lawsuit in the coming months against toy gun manufacturers, an attempt to restrict production of realistic designs like the one a child was playing with before he was fatally shot by officers in the city, a lawyer for the group told local media.

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NRA's Wayne LaPierre calls Bernie Sanders a dangerous 'political predator' at Friday rally with Trump

In his speech opening the National Rifle Association (NRA)'s 2017 Leadership Conference in Atlanta, the organization's president Wayne LaPierre attacked Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, calling the former presidential candidate a kind of Pied Piper -- a "political predator" who lures young Americans astray.

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Gunman targeting white men kills three in Fresno, California

A gunman who went by the nickname Black Jesus killed three white men in downtown Fresno, California, on Tuesday, and fired at another before he was taken into custody while shouting "Allahu Akhbar," police said.

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WATCH: Cleveland Police Department holds press conference about manhunt for Facebook Live killer

Cleveland, OH Police Chief Calvin Williams and Mayor Frank Jackson held a live press conference Saturday to discuss the shooting rampage by Steve Stephens, who broadcast the murder of a 78-year-old man on Facebook Live.

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