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In the name of protecting children, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed bills outlawing drag shows, banning “inappropriate” books, outlawing gender-affirming care for minors, and restricting school bathrooms to the gender a student is assigned at birth. But for all his talk about shielding kids, Lee has done nothing about guns—even though they are the leading cause of death for children, both in his state and nationwide. The latest fatalities in Tennessee include three nine-year-old students and three staff members at the Covenant School in Nashville. The killer wasn't a drag queen, but a 28-year-old woman named Audrey Hale armed with two assault rifles and a handgun. Nashville Police Chief John Drake said at a press conference Monday afternoon that Hale was transgender. After last year’s mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 students and two teachers dead, a group of gun control advocates and clergy arrayed stuffed animals, backpacks and flowers outside Lee’s … [Read more...] about After Nashville, Let’s Admit Drag and Books Were Never the Real Threat to Kids

What to know about the shooting at The Covenant School: At least three children and three adults were killed , and the shooter is also dead, police and hospital officials said The school has students from preschool through sixth grade The shooter was described by police as a 28-year-old Nashville woman 1m ago / 6:56 PM UTC Biden calls shooting 'a family's worst nightmare,' says gun violence is 'ripping the soul of this nation' Rebecca Shabad In response to the Nashville shooting, President Joe Biden said Monday that it's "heartbreaking, a family's worst nightmare." At a White House event hosting a summit for women-owned small businesses, Biden commended the local police, who he said responded "incredibly swiftly, within minutes, to end the danger." "We have to do more to stop gun violence. It's ripping our communities apart, ripping the soul of this nation, ripping at the very soul of the nation," Biden said. "And we have to do more to … [Read more...] about Nashville school shooting live updates: Six killed, including three children

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for March 27 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Nikese Toussaint was at church, so she didn’t see the text message from her sister. All she knew at that point was that their brother and his wife, who live in the U.S., had landed safely in Haiti to visit ailing relatives and prepare for Rara, a colorful and boisterous festival born out of the dark days of slavery. It wasn’t until Toussaint got home and her sister followed up the unread text with a phone call that she learned her warnings had materialized: their brother, an accountant; his wife, a social worker; and another person were snatched off a public bus amid a surge in gang-related kidnappings. AMERICAN COUPLE BEING HELD HOSTAGE IN HAITI; KIDNAPPERS INCREASE RANSOM DEMAND Toussaint took a deep breath. Not again, she thought. Seventeen years earlier, gangs had kidnapped two of her … [Read more...] about American couple kidnapped by Haitian gang, family begs for release

One night in October, just a couple blocks from Harvard Square, a young crowd gathered at a music space called the Sinclair to catch a performance by Bill Callahan, the meticulous indie-rock lyricist who has been playing to bookish collegiate types since the early ‘90s. Callahan’s opening act, Lonnie Holley, had been playing to similar audiences for two years. A number of details about Holley made this fact surprising: He was decades older than just about everyone in the club and one of the few African-Americans. He says he grew up the seventh of 27 children in Jim Crow-era Alabama, where his schooling stopped around seventh grade. In his own, possibly unreliable telling, he says the woman who informally adopted him as an infant eventually traded him to another family for a pint of whiskey when he was 4. Holley also says he dug graves, picked trash at a drive-in, drank too much gin, was run over by a car and pronounced brain-dead, picked cotton, became a father at 15 (Holley now has 15 … [Read more...] about Lonnie Holley, the Insider’s Outsider

close Video Police cordon off an area after reports of a shooting at The Covenant School Police cordon off an area after reports of a shooting at The Covenant School, Nashville, Tennessee on Monday, March 27, 2023. (Emily Zanotti/Fox News Digital) The Covenant School (TCS) in Nashville, Tennessee, where at least three children and three adults were killed in a mass shooting on Monday morning, is a private Presbyterian school offering classes from preschool to sixth grade. Metro Nashville Police Department officers killed the shooter, a 28-year-old woman whose name has not been released. TCS has a goal "to educate twenty-first-century children in a way that prepares them to impact their culture and think in accordance with timeless Truth," according to a statement on its website from Covenant Head of School Dr. Katherine Koonce. Founded in 2001, the school, located in Nashville's Green Hills neighborhood southwest of downtown, has 33 … [Read more...] about Tennessee school shooting: What to know about Covenant School in Nashville

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. — Lonnie Holley’s life began at an impossible place: 1950, seventh among his mother’s 27 children, in Jim Crow-era Birmingham, Ala., the air thick with violent racism toward him and everyone he loved. Things got even worse as he grew up. At four years old, he said, he was traded for a bottle of whiskey by a nurse who had stolen him away from his mother. Later, as the story goes, he was in a coma for several months and pronounced brain-dead after being hit by a car that dragged him along several blocks. Then he spent time in the infamous Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children until his paternal grandmother — he refers to her simply as “Momo” — was able to take him away at the age of 14. He forged his way out of the miry roads of his origins, becoming a musician and filmmaker, and teaching himself to make visual art. Since then, he has come far, far enough to have just completed a residency as an artist at the Elaine de Kooning House in this celebrity-filled … [Read more...] about Lonnie Holley’s Life of Perseverance, and Art of Transformation