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The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing Tuesday on domestic terrorism in the wake of the Buffalo mass shooting. One witness is the son of the oldest victim.
Tetra Images - Henryk Sadura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The son of the oldest victim in the Buffalo, New York supermarket shooting is expected to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday in a hearing on domestic terrorism in the wake of the apparent racially-motivated attack that left 10 Black people dead, including his 86-year-old mother, and a national reckoning over gun violence as lawmakers consider gun safety legislation this week. The hearing, which kicks off at 10 a.m., is titled, "Examining the 'Metastasizing' Domestic Terrorism Threat After the Buffalo ...
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What was the most common thread among the insurgents on Jan. 6, 2021? Robert Pape, who heads up the University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats, analyzed the demographics
Chuck Hagel served as the United States Secretary of Defense under the Obama administration from 2013 to 2015, after two terms as a republican senator from Nebraska. Hagel is visiting Chicago to speak on national security and global geopolitics at the University of Chicago.
One of the broad narratives about January 6 that emerged from demographic assessments of the people arrested was the sense that the vast majority of the insurrectionists were just “ordinary citizens” who had no real extremist affiliations. It turns out that may not be quite right.