Trump news at a glance: president pays tribute to Brown University shooting victims amid calls for gun control | Trump administration
Donald Trump on Sunday paid his respects to two people killed and nine who were injured in a shooting at Brown University.
“Before we begin, I want to just pay my respects to the people, unfortunately two are no longer with us, Brown University, nine injured and two are looking down on us right now from Heaven,” the president told guests at a holiday reception at the White House.
“Brown University,” Trump added, “great school, really one of the greatest schools anywhere in the world. Things can happen.”
Saturday’s violence at Brown brought the number of mass shootings in the US for the year to at least 389, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The attack reignited the US’s ongoing debate on whether the federal government should implement more substantial gun control in response to the perennially high numbers of mass shootings reported in the country.
Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat, drew parallels to the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting in his state of Connecticut which killed 26 people.
“What I know is that a community never, ever recovers from a shooting like this,” he told CNN on Sunday.
Person of interest detained in Brown University shooting that left two dead
A person of interest in the shooting that killed two people and wounded nine others at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday has been detained, police have said.
Col Oscar Perez – the Providence police force’s chief – confirmed at a news conference on Sunday that the person of interest was in their 20s. Perez did not provide many other details about the person, including whether that person was connected to Brown.
Experts urge caution as Trump’s big bill incentivizes AI in healthcare
For states to receive certain funding stipulated in the Trump administration’s “big, beautiful” bill, they must meet three of 10 criteria – including integrating more artificial intelligence (AI) technology in healthcare settings – which experts say could have major benefits and liabilities for under-resourced hospitals, depending on how it’s implemented.
Manchin: stop acting in ‘attack mode’ amid political violence
Politicians should “calm down” and stop approaching one another in “attack mode” amid the US’s climate of political violence, former US senator Joe Manchin said on Sunday.
The West Virginia independent who generally caucused with Senate Democrats echoed similar comments made at a town hall Saturday by Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot to death in September.
Trump says building DC triumphal arch is domestic policy chief’s ‘primary thing’
Amid concerns that he has failed to address a worsening affordability crisis, with health insurance premiums about to spike dramatically for over 20 million Americans, Donald Trump revealed on Sunday that his domestic policy chief’s main priority is building a triumphal arch for Washington DC.
Immigration forces teens to take over detained parents’ roles
Vilma Cruz, a mother of two, had just arrived at her newly leased Louisiana home when federal agents surrounded her vehicle in the driveway. She had just enough time to call her oldest son before they smashed the passenger window and detained her.
Cruz’s detention forced her son, Jonathan Escalante, an 18-year-old US citizen who finished high school this year, to care for his nine-year-old sister, who has a physical disability. Escalante is now trying to access his mother’s bank account, locate his sister’s medical records and doctors, and figure out how to pay bills in his mother’s name.
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