10 years since the Sandy Hook shooting: how many children die due to shootings in US schools

It has been ten years since a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, killing 20 children and six school staff, reports the BBC. US President Joe Biden, in a written statement timed to coincide with the anniversary of the tragedy, said that this ...

$50 million for conspiracy theory: US court fined conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

A US court has punished Alex Jones, an influential American conspiracy theorist and frequent guest of the Russian Tsargrad channel, by ordering him to pay almost $50 million to the family of a boy who died in a school shooting in Connecticut 10 years ago. More about this told the edition of the BBC. The parents of six-year-old Jesse...

First conviction in U.S. court for creating and spreading conspiracy theory

A judge has ruled that Alex Jones will be forced to pay compensation to the families of those killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting because he caused them harm and suffering by spreading conspiracy theories that the mass shooting was “staged,” USA Today reports. This is the first time...

US Supreme Court upheld ban on assault weapons in New York and Connecticut

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld two states' bans on certain assault-style semiautomatic weapons, Connecticut and New York, that were enacted after the 2012 Newtown school shootings. Gun gun advocates have tried to challenge this...

The third anniversary of the tragedy at Sandy Hook: statistics worsen

December 14 marks three years since the massacre of students at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. At the hands of 20-year-old Adam Lanza, who committed the massacre, 27 people, including 20 children, were killed. Since then, according to NBC News, in ...

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