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June 8, 2022
Congress is holding hearings in the aftermath of back-to-back mass shootings. Families of the victims and survivors of the mass…
Karen Bass and Rick Caruso
June 8, 2022
An early tally of mail-in ballots showed Caruso with 41% and Bass with 38%. A candidate needed to top 50%…
Sign reading "Enough" with an image of a gun
June 7, 2022
We the people need to fight back and demand our congressional leaders act to bring about common-sense gun reform.
June 7, 2022
The US is in a “heightened threat environment" already DHS said in the latest National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin.
June 7, 2022
VP Kamala Harris will have an opportunity to connect with leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean as she welcomes…
Police respond to the scene of a mass shooting
June 7, 2022
Another week, another mass shooting. The locations change, but the story remains the same. We had another one last week…
June 7, 2022
Despite a 6-to-3 majority of conservatives on the Supreme Court, fewer than four wanted to hear the McCloskeys' case.
Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio thegrio.com
June 7, 2022
The former top leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group and other members were charged with seditious conspiracy for…
June 7, 2022
Louisiana's governor will call the Republican-dominated Legislature into special session soon to draw up new congressional district boundaries, now that…
Karen Bass
June 7, 2022
Mayoral candidate Karen Bass in an interview with theGrio discusses the top issues in Los Angeles: homelessness, crime and the…
June 7, 2022
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said suspects are charged by states' attorneys on “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” standard, so they need…
A gun and bullets on an American flag
June 6, 2022
To be fair, the amateur forensic analysts who love to claim that “guns don’t kill people” are actually correct.
President Joe Biden speaks about the January jobs report
June 6, 2022
TheGrio chatted with U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and Biden senior advisor Gene Sperling about the latest Black unemployment report.
June 6, 2022
The ruling to keep the governor's redistricting map in place breaks up the district represented by Congressman Al Lawson, a…
June 5, 2022
Louisiana lawmakers on Friday approved the removal of multiple holidays that celebrate the Confederacy from the state’s official list.