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The White House has put together a response to the mass shooting in Las Vegas Sunday night, playing down renewed calls for gun control legislation. CNN on Wednesday morning released the White House’s talking points, which offer administration officials a guide for public comments about the mass shooting that left 59 dead and over 500

WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Wednesday proposed legislation that would ban gun bump stocks, which police said were used by a Las Vegas shooter this week to make semi-automatic weapons work more like automatic weapons. “The only reason to modify a gun is to kill as many people as possible in as short a

Former Marine Taylor Winston, who stole an empty truck with the keys left inside during the Las Vegas shooting and used it to drive victims to the hospital, just got the perfect message from the vehicle’s owner. “Hey Taylor, [I was] told you might have the keys to my truck??” he texted Winston, 29, after

When word began to spread of the mass shooting in Las Vegas Sunday night, the city”s Chabad rabbis mobilized to help, support, counsel, and comfort those affected. As of Tuesday, the death toll numbered 59, with more than 500 people wounded in the attack. When Rabbi Levi Harlig of Chabad Las Vegas Blvd. with his

The UJA-Federation of New York delivered a planeload of humanitarian supplies to the JCC in Puerto Rico and returned a stranded retired New York firefighter in time for his son’s wedding. Firefighters in the city of Yonkers collected the supplies that arrived in Puerto Rico on Sunday morning in the wake of Hurricane Maria. The

Two Las Vegas synagogues held special evening prayers and a GoFundMe page raised over $50,000 for an injured Jewish woman as the city’s Jewish community rallied to help in the aftermath of the mass shooting on the Strip. Chabad Rabbi Mendy Harlig, a chaplain with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, told the Chabad.org website

The Trump administration has turned down a request from Puerto Rico that food stamps be made available for use in fast food restaurants and in other places that serve prepared hot meals, amd power cuts and food shortages on the island. Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria several weeks ago, leaving many of its

Jewish groups responded to the mass shooting in Las Vegas by condemning the violence and calling for gun control legislation. At least 59 people are dead and more than 500 wounded in the attack at a country music festival outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Strip late Sunday night. It is the