Say the word “gun” and you can instantly divide people. Some want to enact laws and restrictions in hopes of curtailing violent crimes. Some are just as passionate about protecting constitutional rights and protections surrounding gun ownership. It can be hard to find a middle ground anywhere. Pennsylvania is practically
With gun crimes surging in Pittsburgh, Mayor Bill Peduto and State Rep. Dan Frankel, D-Squirrel Hill, led a group of community leaders speaking out Thursday against state laws preventing municipalities from enacting their own gun laws. Appearing before media gathered under a tent in Schenley Park, Peduto and Frankel expressed
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Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh are joining forces in a new research center designed to study and seek ways to halt the proliferation of extremist hate.
The announcement comes amid rising fears about ethnic violence against Asian Americans. On Tuesday night in Atlanta, a gunman killed eight people, six of Asian descent, at three massage parlors.
The genesis of the new center to study extremist hate, however, dates back more than two years.
Officials said the Collaboratory Against Hate Research and Action Center is the result of conversations spurred by the Oct. 27, 2018, Tree of Life synagogue attack in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood that left 11 worshippers dead after a gunman stormed the building, home to three congregations, during Saturday morning services.
Dr. Rachel Levine (left) and Rand Paul (right) At a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing on Feb. 24, former Pennsylvania health secretary Dr. Rachel Levine was repeatedly asked by U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) about whether she supports treating gender dysphoria in children. Paul repeatedly equates gender dysphoria treatments, like receiving hormones, with “genital mutilation . Then he asked Levine if minors are capable of making the decision to transition. Later on, Paul asked Levine, as part of one question, whether she supports the “government intervening to override the parents consent to give a child puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and/or amputation surgery of breasts and genitalia?”