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Credit: Partisan Animosity and America—The Path to the 2024 Presidential Election: Partisan Violence, (2024) Despite political chatter about a new civil war, Americans' support for partisan violence remains very low, according to a new report issued by the Polarization Research Lab. Led by Sean Westwood, an associate professor at Dartmouth, and…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain At the end of January, a 31-year-old woman and her daughters suffered horrifying injuries after being assaulted with an alkaline corrosive substance in London. Sadly, acid attacks like this are not isolated incidents. Over the last 15 years, they have been on the rise across the world, including in the UK. These…

Parents of half a dozen victims of gun violence used artificial intelligence (AI) to recreate their children’s voices in calls to Congress, urging lawmakers to change the country’s gun laws as part of a new campaign launched on the sixth anniversary of the Parkland, Fla., shooting. The Shotline, created by gun control advocacy groups Change the Ref and March For Our Lives, allows people to send the AI-generated voices of six gun violence victims to members of Congress. The voice of Joaquin Oliver — who was…

"I am not being callous, and I know it will be painful to see. But, sad to say, I think it’s the only way to shock America out of its stupor," singer says John Mellencamp, a longtime advocate for gun control, issued a statement Friday condemning gun violence and encouraging America to confront the “carnage” in order to end it. “Excuse me for stating the obvious truth.  I do so out of love for this country and the pain of learning, once again, that children have been killed by gun violence,”…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The recent charges against five members of Canada's gold medal-winning 2018 world junior hockey team in connection with an alleged sexual assault has thrust Hockey Canada and its issues back into the public eye. A woman sued Hockey Canada in 2022, alleging she had been sexually assaulted in a hotel room by eight…

Joaquin “Guac” Oliver died in the 2018 Parkland, Florida, high school massacre, but federal lawmakers who oppose tighter gun regulations began getting phone calls in his voice on Wednesday, lambasting them for their position.The families of Oliver and five others killed with guns are using artificial intelligence to create messages in their loved ones’ voices and robocalling them to senators and House members who support the National Rifle Association and oppose tougher gun laws. The protest is being run through The…

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott speaks at a press conference on results from its Group Violence Reduction Strategy, which University of Pennsylvania researchers helped implement and analyze, and next steps. Credit: Jack French/Baltimore Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement The Baltimore Police Department's Western District has historically had the highest rates of homicides in the city and among the highest in the…

Joe Talbot, who normally uses his bullhorn-of-a-voice to stir or alarm, opens Idles’ latest album with a soft croon and closes it with a comforting hum. This time, he’s acting not just as a force of nature but as a tool of nurture, and that’s no coincidence. In the time between the release of the band’s last album, Crawler, a top ten hit in 2021, and the new one, titled Tangk, he and primary musician Mark Bowen both became fathers. “When you become a parent, you’re in charge of this very vulnerable thing,” Talbot said.…

The Marvel actor will not be sentenced on Tuesday after his legal team filed various motions following his conviction on reckless assault charges Jonathan Majors’ sentencing was delayed on Tuesday after the embattled actor’s legal team filed last-minute motions in the case, months after the former Marvel actor’s conviction for recklessly assaulting his ex-girlfriend. The morning’s hearing was pushed back until after lunchtime when Judge Michael Gaffey will likely schedule a new sentencing date.…

Credit: Magali Guimarães from Pexels Violence spreads in a contagious way like a disease among members of the Italian mafia, a new study shows. Researchers have found committing violent acts with others increases the likelihood that people in these groups will go on to carry out more violent offenses in the future. The analysis of the criminal careers…