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Jen Hayden

Mass shooting during rush hour at Brooklyn subway station, suspect still at-large

Multiple people were shot this morning at the 36th Street stop in Sunset Park. 

Preliminary reports indicated that five people were shot, a law enforcement official said. The police were seeking a man with a gas mask and an orange construction vest, the official said.

Initial reports say several undetonated devices were found inside the subway station.

Do you know this person? Take another look. Police say they have no suspects in D.C. bomber case

More than five months after the insurrection, federal agents from the FBI continue to arrest those responsible for breaking and entering the U.S. Capitol, charging them with a variety of crimes ranging from unlawful entry to conspiracy and felony assault of federal officers. And while they are making steady progress identifying the hundreds of people who took part, they are no closer to an arrest of the person who planted two pipe bombs the night before the deadly insurrection on Jan.

The Suez Canal crisis sparked truly hilarious memes, but also, you might want to buy toilet paper

Unless you’ve been living under a rock this week, you know a giant cargo ship is lodged lengthwise across the Suez Canal, blocking ships from navigating through one of the most important shipping routes in the world. 

The cargo ship Ever Given has been stuck since Wednesday and everything from car parts, electronics, and livestock are stuck behind the 220,000-ton ship.

The Suez Canal crisis sparked truly hilarious memes, but also, you might want to buy toilet paper

Unless you’ve been living under a rock this week, you know a giant cargo ship is lodged lengthwise across the Suez Canal, blocking ships from navigating through one of the most important shipping routes in the world. 

The cargo ship Ever Given has been stuck since Wednesday and everything from car parts, electronics, and livestock are stuck behind the 220,000-ton ship.

Arizona mob trying to stop the count included some familiar deplorable faces

On Wednesday night, a mob began gathering outside the Maricopa County Elections Department offices in Phoenix, where clerks were counting the votes well into the night. Republicans are desperately trying to recreate their successful “Brooks Brothers Riot,” where so-called average citizens demanded the vote count be stopped in Florida during the 2000 presidential election.

FBI disrupted violent ‘militia’ plot to overthrow the government and kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

The FBI made a shocking announcement on Thursday, saying they’d disrupted a violent plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. From The Detroit News:

“Several members talked about murdering ‘tyrants’ or ‘taking’ a sitting governor,” an FBI agent wrote in the affidavit. “The group decided they needed to increase their numbers and encouraged each other to talk to their neighbors and spread their message.

Arkansas Republican official just died of COVID-19. Will the GOP change its ways?

Craighead County Republican committee chairman Steven Farmer has died of COVID-19, according to a post on Facebook from his daughter, Audrey Haynie. It is unclear when or where Farmer contracted the disease, but Haynie had been providing updates on her father’s progress on Facebook. She said he had been admitted to the ICU on September 18.

Oprah’s magazine sponsored 26 Breonna Taylor billboards around Louisville demanding justice

Oprah Winfrey and her crew at O, the Oprah Magazine not only featured Breonna Taylor on one of the magazine’s final covers, the first ever O Magazine cover to feature someone other than the media mogul herself in 20 years of publication, they are going even further in their quest for justice for Breonna Taylor and her family.

Sign and send a petition to Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer: Fire all the officers involved in Breonna Taylor’s murder.

Kansas governor angered after House Speaker attended meeting, didn’t disclose COVID hospitalization

What kind of a person would go from being hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms for a week and then return to work as normal without telling his coworkers? Kansas House Speaker Ron “Rona” Ryckman, that’s who. 

The Kansas lawmaker, a senior Republican from Olathe, a suburb of Kansas City, told supporters in an email obtained by the Kansas City Star about his diagnosis.

Portland woman said she’s had it with Trump—’I will not support a tyranist any longer’

As Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr prepare to unleash more federal forces in Seattle, Chicago, and other large cities in the U.S., protest crowds are still swelling in Portland—and there are some new faces in the crowd. At least one of them was willing to talk to MSNBC, declaring: “As of last night, I am no longer a Trump supporter.” 

Watch as the unnamed woman explains why she can no longer support Trump.