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 the two people killed and nine injured in a shooting at Brown University.
“Before we begin, I just want to pay tribute to the people, unfortunately two are no longer with us, Brown University, nine injured and two are watching us from heaven right now,” the president told guests at a White House holiday reception.
“Brown University,” Trump added, “a great school, truly one of the greatest schools in the world. Things can happen.”
Saturday’s violence in Brown brought the number of mass shootings in the United States for the year to at least 389, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The attack reignited the ongoing debate in the United States over whether the federal government should implement stricter gun controls in response to the country’s continued high number of mass shootings reported.
Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat, drew parallels to the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting in his home state of Connecticut, which killed 26 people.
“What I know is that a community never recovers from a shooting like this,” he told CNN on Sunday.
Person of interest arrested in Brown University shooting that left two dead
A person of interest in the shooting that killed two people and injured nine others Saturday at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, has been arrested, police said.
Colonel Oscar Perez – Providence Police Chief – confirmed during a press conference on Sunday that the person involved was in their 20s. Perez did not provide many other details about the person, including whether the person had a connection to Brown.
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Experts urge caution as Trump’s big bill encourages AI in health care
For states to receive some of the funding stipulated in the Trump administration’s “big, beautiful” bill, they must meet three of 10 criteria — including integrating more artificial intelligence (AI) technology into health care facilities — which experts say could have major advantages and disadvantages for underfunded hospitals, depending on how it is implemented.
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Manchin: Stop acting in ‘attack mode’ amid political violence
Politicians should “calm down” and stop approaching each other in “attack mode” amid the climate of political violence in the United States, former U.S. Senator Joe Manchin said on Sunday.
The West Virginia independent, who typically speaks with Senate Democrats, echoed similar comments made Saturday at a town hall by Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed in September.
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Trump says building Washington’s Arch of Triumph is domestic policy chief’s ‘priority’
Amid concerns that he has failed to address the deepening affordability crisis as health insurance premiums are poised to rise dramatically for more than 20 million Americans, Donald Trump revealed Sunday that his domestic policy chief’s top priority is building a triumphal arch for Washington, DC.
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Immigration forces teenagers to take on the role of their detained parents
Vilma Cruz, a mother of two, had just arrived at her newly rented home in Louisiana when federal agents surrounded her vehicle in the driveway. She had just enough time to call her eldest son before they smashed the passenger window and arrested her.
Cruz’s detention forced his son, Jonathan Escalante, an 18-year-old U.S. citizen who graduated from high school this year, to care for his nine-year-old sister, who has a physical disability. Escalante is now trying to access her mother’s bank account, locate her sister’s medical records and doctors, and figure out how to pay her bills in her mother’s name.
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