Pittsburgh
Multiple Schools Shut Down by ‘Swatting’ Calls Days After Nashville School Shooting
Pennsylvania state troopers said that calls to several local schools were “believed to be computer-generated swatting calls.”
Video Shows Cop Punching Protester During Anti–Police Brutality Protest
Multiple videos taken during Saturday’s demonstration over a Black homeless man’s death show a Wilkinsburg police officer punching a protester.
Rescuers Formed a Human Chain to Save People Dangling From Collapsed Bridge
The bridge collapsed hours before President Biden’s visit to talk about investing in aging infrastructure.
Ted Cruz Roasted for Pretending Paris Climate Accord Is Only for Parisians
Trump spouted the same line back in 2017 when he announced the U.S. would withdraw from the agreement.
The DOJ Wants the Death Penalty for the Accused Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter
The shooter is accused of killing 11 people attending Shabbat services at the Tree of Life synagogue last October.
Pittsburgh's Rap Scene Is Wounded But Optimistic
Following the deaths of two of the city's most prominent exports, Mac Miller and Jimmy Wopo, rappers like Benji. and My Favorite Color are doing their best to pick up the pieces.
The first congressional hearing on white nationalism since Charlottesville was a train wreck
Lawmakers and their guests railed against the media’s treatment of President Trump and yelled about Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
Someone painted a swastika on a memorial to the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
“Last night, a tribune on the East Campus Bridge to the victims of the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre was defaced by a large, red swastika," the Duke University president said.
Gab is back online — and already flooded with anti-Semitic hate
"Name the Jews who are trying to shut us down.”
Prosecutors seek death penalty for man accused of killing 11 at Pittsburgh synagogue
“Hatred and violence on the basis of religion can have no place in our society."
Canadian Jewish leaders worry Pittsburgh massacre could happen here
The mass murder has exposed links between anti-Semitism and anti-refugee racism.
After Pittsburgh, American Jews Are Mournful, Afraid, and Defiant
"We shouldn’t be shocked that something like this happened.”