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Mark Follman

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Victims Allege OpenAI Is Responsible for Mass Shooting

Victims of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting and their families sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in US district court in San Francisco on Wednesday,...

29.04.2026 8

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Mark Follman

The Attack on Ilhan Omar and Trump’s Destructive Politics of Violence

My heart was in my throat as I watched the video emerging late Tuesday. A disturbed, angry man had just rushed Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar...

30.01.2026 10

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Mark Follman

No, Antidepressants Do Not Cause Mass Shootings

As US health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has drawn a lot of attention for promoting pseudoscience and disproven theories, especially on vaccines....

23.01.2026 30

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RFK Jr. Blames Pills—Not Guns—for School Shootings

As secretary of Health and Human Services in the second Trump administration, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pushed an array of pseudo-science and...

03.12.2025 10

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Maine Voters Approve New Law to Prevent Suicides and Mass Shootings

AR-15-style rifles displayed under an American flag at the Kittery Trading Post, Aug. 9, 2024, in Kittery, Maine AP/Charles Krupa Though it was...

06.11.2025 10

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The Key Missing Piece to the Megahit “Adolescence”

In March, the fictional TV miniseries Adolescence became a surprise global sensation. Its story centers on the Millers, a working-class family of four...

14.09.2025 10

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Texas Forbids Law That Keeps Guns Away From Unhinged People

Everything is bigger in Texas—except, apparently, memory of devastating mass shootings. In late June, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a...

02.07.2025 10

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As Political Violence Surges, Trump Shuts Down a Top Prevention Program

Since March, the Trump administration has dismantled a leading office at the Department of Homeland Security whose mission was averting terrorism and...

26.06.2025 10

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Trump Prepares to Wipe Out Years of Progress on Gun Violence

By the time Joe Biden became president in January 2021, guns were the top killer of children and teens in America, overtaking car crashes and cancer...

14.02.2025 10

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Mark Follman