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Handmade cards from classmates comfort a girl wounded in Minneapolis church shooting, aunt says

St. Paul offers to put cops outside every school for week after Minneapolis school shooting
St. Paul police are offering to place officers outside every public and private school in the city in the coming week in response to the shooting of students at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. With St. Paul and Minneapolis public...

PBS Guest Blames GOP, 'Culture in America Surrounding Guns' For School Shootings
Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr pinch-hit for MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart on Friday’s PBS News Hour and, during the discussion on the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis, blamed the GOP and its embrace of gun culture...

Minneapolis shooting reignites debate over gun control and prayer
Thoughts and prayers. The invocation appears like a litany after every mass shooting — and the backlash is just as inevitable. As if the slaughter of children amid screams and shattered stained glass wasn't cause enough for grief, American opinion...

Are the Minneapolis Church Shooting Victims Martyrs?
Among the unanswered questions in the aftermath of the mass shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis earlier this week is whether the two children who died are martyrs. Like St. Óscar Romero in 1980 and St. Thomas Becket in 1170, they died...

What we know about the Minneapolis shooting as new details revealed
In the days since a shooter killed two children and wounded 18 people gathered for Mass in Minneapolis, authorities have combed through a trove of evidence to uncover a potential motive for the tragedy. Records show that investigators have combed...
El DHS recortó la financiación a programas de prevención de tiroteos masivos en Minnesota antes de incidente en Minneapolis
Por Audrey Ash y Curt Devine, CNN El mes anterior a que una persona abriera fuego contra niños reunidos en una iglesia de Minnesota, esta semana, la Administración Trump recortó la financiación en el estado destinada a esfuerzos para identificar a...

New Details Emerge About Minneapolis Church Shooter’s Past
Mary Grace Westman, the mother of the Minneapolis church shooter, has hired a criminal defense attorney, NBC News has confirmed. It comes as new details are emerging about the shooter’s past, including a former classmate and friend Josefina...

Trump Planning Major Immigration Operations in Chicago
Hundreds of federal agents and National Guard will be deployed to Chicago as early as next week, as part of a major operation directed at increasing immigration enforcement and tackling crime. According to The New York Times, at least 200 Homeland...

Church service schedule to change in September
CEYLON — Monday is the Labor Day Holiday. Please have a safe and happy Labor Day. Remember, schools are starting classes, and children may run from the school bus or on the street intersections. Keep the children safe, obey school bus safety arms...

Minneapolis families’ stories emerge online
MINNEAPOLIS -- Amid the horror carried out Wednesday by a shooter who authorities say was "obsessed" with the idea of killing children, stories of bravery and tragedy have emerged as families in Minneapolis share accounts online. Moments after...
What child survivors of the Annunciation church shooting will need to deal with trauma
When the bullets started flying into the church, adults jumped up to protect children from the onslaught. Students tried to help too, shielding their friends and younger classmates. Kids who lived through the Wednesday morning shooting at...

ThreeSixty Journalism: Dealing hope in South Minneapolis
“I’m a hope dealer, not a dope dealer.” That is Nation Wright’s motto today. Growing up in the Minneapolis American Indian community, Wright saw firsthand how addiction affected his people. Now, as the chief operating officer for the American...

Frequent violence against Catholic churches was well documented before Minnesota shooting
Violence against Catholic churches has been on the rise for the past few years, both secular and religious organizations have warned. Now, some are levying criticism at state and federal authorities for what they have said was an inadequate...

A Time for Anger: Assigning Blame for the Rise of Violence in America’s Culture
By now you have heard of the tragic school shooting in Minneapolis. In a most evil act of demonic hate and irrationality, Robin Westman fired dozens of rounds from a rifle through the windows of a Christian school during their morning worship...

'Scary horrible monster': Minneapolis school shooter’s deadly rampage linked to breakup shocker? Final days revealed
Minneapolis police have said that the 23-year-old gunman Robin Westman who killed two children and injured 18 others at Annunciation Catholic Church this week recently went through a breakup that may have played a key role in his violent spiral....

Gov. Tim Walz considering calling a special session to address Minnesota gun laws
People gather at a vigil at Lynnhurst Park after a shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn) ST. PAUL (KFGO-WCCO) — Following the tragic and deadly shooting at Annunciation...
The Minneapolis Annunciation Church community grapples with the aftermath of violence

DHS cut funding to prevention programs in Minnesota before school shooting
The month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence.Related video above:...

How the Left Is Losing the Culture, From Tragedy to Taylor Swift
The Left and the Right’s reactions to the events of this week provide a telling insight into why the Right has a hold on the culture, and the Left, decidedly, does not—from the tragic shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school to Taylor Swift’s...