| No Images? Click here  Monday, August 5DOMESTIC TERROR MENACES AMERICA Federal prosecutors said Sunday that they’re treating the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, as a domestic terrorism case, as the country continues to deal with the aftermath of the massacre that left 20 dead. Federal officials often hesitate to use the label “domestic terrorism” because the U.S. doesn’t have a law that broadly outlaws such acts. [HuffPost]MCCARTHY BLAMES VIDEO GAMES House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) expressed concern about the influence of video games following the deadly mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend. “They dehumanize individuals to have a game of shooting individuals and others,” he said. [HuffPost]2020 DEMS LINK TRUMP’S RACISM TO EL PASO SHOOTING Democratic presidential candidates spoke out Sunday against President Donald Trump’s racist and xenophobic rhetoric, linking it to the El Paso shooting as police are investigating whether the suspected gunman, a 21-year-old white man, was motivated by a hatred of Hispanic people. [HuffPost]MEXICO THREATENS TO SUE OVER SHOOTINGS Mexican foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard said Sunday that the attorney general would consider litigation claiming that terrorism was committed against Mexicans in a shooting in El Paso, Texas, in which 20 were killed, including six Mexicans. [Reuters]WHAT BULLETS DO TO BODIES “The bullet can stay in the body just fine. But the bleeding has to be contained, even if the patient is awake and screaming because a tube has just been pushed into his chest cavity through a deep incision without the aid of general anesthesia.” [HuffPost]HONG KONG PROTESTS DISRUPT FLIGHTS, SUBWAYS At least 100 flights were cancelled and subway service widely disrupted in Hong Kong on Monday as a pro-democracy movement called for a general strike. Demonstrations followed a weekend of clashes with police on the streets. [AP]  DAYTON DEMANDS ACTION AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE The crowd at a vigil in Dayton, Ohio― where a deadly shooting took place over the weekend ― on Sunday put Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine in the spotlight, calling on him to take action on gun control legislation. [HuffPost]HOW 8CHAN BECAME A BREEDING GROUND FOR VIOLENT EXTREMISM As the list of killers seemingly radicalized on 8chan gets longer — including three in the past five months, who targeted Muslims, Jews and immigrants, respectively — the death toll is sure to keep rising. “It’s used to stir hatred, and to tell people to commit mass murder,” an NBC extremism reporter noted. [HuffPost]U.S. WITHDRAWS FROM 1987 NUCLEAR PACT WITH RUSSIA The United States formally withdrew from a landmark nuclear missile pact with Russia on Friday after determining that Moscow was in violation of the treaty and had no plans to come into compliance with it. [Reuters]A$AP ROCKY RETURNS TO U.S. TO AWAIT VERDICT Nearly a month after he was arrested in Sweden, rapper A$AP Rocky returned to the United States as the verdict in an assault case against him and two other Americans looms. [AP]17 MILLION VOTERS HAVE HAD REGISTRATION CANCELLED SINCE 2016 At least 17 million people were removed from the voter rolls between the 2016 election and the 2018 midterms, according to a new report. The study offered further evidence that certain places continued to more aggressively remove people from the voting rolls. [HuffPost]NEW PUERTO RICO GOV. LOBBIED FOR DANGEROUS COAL UTILITY Puerto Rico’s newly sworn-in Gov. Pedro Pierluisi formerly worked as a corporate lawyer representing the coal-fired utility giant that polluted groundwater with toxic ash and sent cancer rates soaring. [HuffPost]
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