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Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) latest gun control push includes the claim that there have been “over a dozen” mass shootings in America since Friday. Pelosi tweeted this claim Tuesday and did not include any citation to substantiate it: We have had over a dozen mass shooting since last Friday, leaving families and communities devastated — and still, Republicans would rather ban books than assault weapons. Democrats will never stop fighting to keep America's children safe from guns. -NP — Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) May 2, 2023 The Associated Press, USA Today, and Northeastern University maintain a database of mass shootings, defining...

A 14-year-old central Toledo girl told police she was abducted at gunpoint yesterday by a man seeking sex, but escaped after she hit him in the groin area with a hammer she found under his car seat. The junior high student later told police she had previously learned in school that, if something like this were to happen, to search for a weapon. So the teen told the abductor she had dropped her ring in the suspect’s car and was searching for it. She felt the hammer under the front passenger seat, then put her ring back on, she told...

Pasadena -- A welder who had been odds with his former employer for more than 20 years over workers compensation benefits was charged with attacking the company's lawyer with a hammer. The attorney suffered back pain and was treated for a head wound following last week's attack. Mulji Patel, 67, of Arcadia was arrested Jan. 31 at a Pasadena medical office, police Lt. Lisa Perrine said Monday. He has pleaded not guilty to a felony count of assault with a deadly weapon. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Feb. 16. Attorney Erwin Nepomuceno said he was accompanying Patel, who slipped...