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- Survivors of last month’s mass shooting at a Colorado LGBTQ night club say right-wing rhetoric has played a key role.
- It’s the tenth anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which claimed 26 lives.
- The Federal Reserve raises a key interest rate for the seventh time this year, and disappoints some economists who hoped it would signal a pause in imposing any future hikes.
- A United Nations council which fights for gender equality votes to immediately oust Iran over its violation of the rights of women and girls.
Image: The Sandy Hook Elementary School makeshift memorial on Washington Avenue in Sandy Hook, Conn., 12 days after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School. (Wed 12/26/22) via Wikimedia.
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