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What leads someone to commit a mass shooting? Trump admin, RFK Jr plan to find out
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Two children were killed and 17 others were injured when a shooter opened fire during a morning Mass for a Minneapolis Catholic school, with the nation subsequently reeling from the tragedy and reigniting debate about ways to prevent such horror in the future.
«This kind of violence is very recent. It’s a new thing in human history,» Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during a Thursday morning interview on «Fox & Friends.» «There was no time in the past when people would walk into a church or a classroom and start shooting people. And it’s not really happening in other countries. It’s happening here, and we need to look at all of the potential culprits that might be contributing to that.»
The FBI is investigating the shooting, which FBI Director Kash Patel called «an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics,» while Trump administration officials are offering prayers and looking at ways to address the nation’s ongoing mental health crisis.
John Lott, the founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told Fox News Digital about some of the top variables involved in such shootings, including killers seeking to gain as much media attention as possible by targeting areas where people are unarmed.
MELANIA TRUMP CALLS FOR ‘PRE-EMPTIVE INTERVENTION IN IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL SCHOOL SHOOTERS’
Ann Stovner kneels by a makeshift memorial at Annunciation Catholic Church Aug. 28, 2025, after a school shooting the day before in Minneapolis. (Abbie Parr/AP Photo)
«You read these manifestos and diaries. Over and over again, these guys know that they’re going to commit suicide,» Lott said. «They know or they believe they’re going to die. People have always wanted to commit suicide, but someplace along the line, people who felt unappreciated, who didn’t think people knew what a great person they were, or whatever, realized they could get national and international attention by killing lots of people.»
The Minneapolis shooter committed suicide during the Wednesday morning rampage.
«They know if they go to a place where their victims are defenseless, they’re going to be able to go and kill more people and get more media attention,» Lott said. «And so the thing to stop these attacks is to take away this notoriety that they can get.»
Lott has long called for the obliteration of «gun-free zones,» and said the Trump administration has the opportunity to «harden» schools by removing such zones, as well as the signs designating them, which essentially advertise that no one inside a facility has a firearm.
Instead, Lott said, schools and other common «soft targets» should install signs noting that select teachers and staff are armed with concealed weapons to protect students and others.
Wednesday’s shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church unfolded as young students of the church’s parochial school attended mass during their first week back in classrooms. The tragedy ultimately left two children, aged 8 and 10, dead and 17 other students and people injured.
GUNS USED BY MINNEAPOLIS CHURCH SCHOOL SHOOTER ROBIN WESTMAN WERE PURCHASED LEGALLY, POLICE SAY
Community members embrace after a shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. (Alex Kormann/Star Tribune via AP)
Police identified the shooter as 23-year-old Robin Westman, who allegedly used a trio of legally purchased firearms, including a rifle, a pistol and a shotgun, to carry out the devastation.
Court records previously reported by Fox News show that a Minneapolis juvenile named Robert Westman acquired a legal name change to Robin Westman in 2019. Patel confirmed that the shooter was born Robert and later identified as Robin.
Local police additionally reported they were aware the shooter released a manifesto on YouTube, though the video has been taken down and is now under investigation.
The White House held a Thursday press conference during which press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Kennedy’s Health and Human Services was investigating potential prescription drug links to mass tragedies, and that the health arm of the federal government had an ongoing focus on the nation’s mental health woes.
«I know the Secretary of Health and Human Services this morning said that HHS is investigating perhaps links between some of these drugs and these prescription drugs that some of these minors may be taking in an increase in violence,» Leavitt said. «And obviously, we have mental health problems in this country that this administration and Secretary Kennedy will continue to speak out about and the work that we’re doing to solve it.»
In response to Kennedy floating a potential tie between shootings and certain prescription intake, senior advisor to America First Legal Ian Prior told Fox Digital that the conservative group uncovered FDA «documents showing the government knew puberty blockers increase depression and suicidal thoughts.»
«Yet they still pushed them on vulnerable kids. We are flooding children with drugs that destabilize their minds— from puberty blockers to SSRIs — and then acting surprised when tragic violence erupts,» he said. «Instead of protecting kids, federal regulators have created a generation struggling with instability that endangers both themselves and the public. If we want to end mass shootings, we must confront these underlying causes head-on.»
Karoline Leavitt said Kennedy’s Health and Human Services was investigating potential prescription drug links to mass tragedies, and that the health arm of the federal government had an ongoing focus on the nation’s mental health woes. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Amy Swearer told Fox News Digital that the Trump administration should end the U.S.’s historic and «absurd focus» on gun control in reaction to school shootings as it maps out next steps to address such tragedies.
«Focusing on this through the lens of gun control is generally not conducive to actually solving any problems here, especially when we’re talking about school shooters in particular,» Swearer said.
«Generally, when we see school shooters, you either have individuals who are underage, who can’t legally buy guns, who are taking them from parents or other family members,» she continued. «Or you’re dealing with individuals like we saw in Minneapolis, who fall into the broader category of adult mass public shooters, who unfortunately, the problem isn’t that they were prohibited people who are circumventing our laws. … It’s that they were mentally unstable, showed signs of being a danger to themselves or others, but hadn’t yet committed a disqualifying felony or misdemeanor offense.»
TWINS DENOUNCE FATAL SHOOTING AT MINNESOTA CATHOLIC CHURCH AS ‘INCOMPREHENSIBLE’ ATTACK
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey sits on the steps of the Annunciation Church’s school as police respond to a reported mass shooting, Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. (Abbie Parr/AP Photo)
Democratic lawmakers have come out in force to voice support for additional gun control following the shooting while denouncing «gun violence» and «weapons of war» on U.S. streets.
«I’m horrified by the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis and closely monitoring the situation. I’m thankful for the first responders on the scene,» Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wrote on X. «Students and teachers should not be putting their lives on the line just by going back to school. We must do more to stop gun violence in America.»
«Praying for the children, families and first responders during this moment of terror and unimaginable grief,» House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said of the tragedy. «Weapons of war have no place in our neighborhoods, streets or schools.»
Police work the scene following a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School on August 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. (Getty Images)
Like Lott, Swearer said «soft targets» such as gun-free school zones, are frequently preyed upon by mass shooters as criminals can carry out deadlier attacks without resistance from their victims. She called for schools and other «soft targets» to at least have the option to protect themselves.
«There is a general rule: hard targets protect people,» she said.
Lott added that a killer’s «goals» must be taken from them if mass shooting tragedies are ever to significantly decrease.
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«The way you take away their goal is having somebody there quickly, or they believe somebody’s there quickly to be able to stop them before they can kill many people,» he said. «I forced myself to read their diaries and manifestos, and time after time after time they say, ‘If I can only kill more people than such and such did, I can get even more media attention. I can get my name in the history books.’»
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Trump echó a la secretaria de Seguridad Nacional de EE.UU., responsable de las redadas contra inmigrantes
El presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, anunció este jueves que destituyó a la secretaria de Seguridad Nacional Kristi Noem.
La funcionaria tenía a su cargo la polémica política migratoria a través de las redadas contra indocumentados en todo el país.
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Trump anunció que Noem dejará el cargo a partir del 31 de marzo. La sustituirá el senador de Oklahoma Markwayne Mullin, mientras la agencia permanece cerrada por falta de fondos.
El mandatario republicano hizo el anuncio en redes sociales, dos días después que Noem enfrentara un duro interrogatorio en el Capitolio por parte de miembros del Partido Republicano, así como de legisladores demócratas.
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Trump anunció además que designará a Noem como “Enviada Especial para el Escudo de las Americas”, una nueva iniciativa de seguridad que, afirmó, se centrará en el hemisferio occidental.
Noem es la primera secretaria del gabinete en dejar el cargo durante el segundo mandato de Trump. Su salida pone fin a un periodo turbulento al frente de tácticas de control migratorio que fueron recibidas con protestas y demandas, con manifestantes y disturbios en grandes ciudades como Los Angeles. Donald Trump destituyó a Kristi Noem (Foto: REUTERS/Kylie Cooper)
El año pasado, Estados Unidos afirmó haber deportado a unos 600.000 inmigrantes sin papeles. Sin embargo, durante la gestión de Noem se sucedieron las denuncias de arrestos y expulsiones de migrantes con documentación provisoria.
Según afirmaron, eran esperados en los juzgados migratorios por agentes especiales para ser detenidos, procesados y expulsados. Esta política de persecución contra las comunidades migrantes, en especial la latina, desató una ola de pánico entre los extranjeros.
Las fuerzas del Servicio de Control de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE) patrullaron comunidades hispanas, realizaron allanamientos en lugares de trabajo, en iglesias y hasta en las puertas de escuelas, lo que provocó airadas protestas de la comunidad latina.
Además, la figura de Noem quedó en medio de una fuerte controversia tras los tiroteos fatales de agentes del ICE en el que murieron dos ciudadanos estadounidenses.
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Según la prensa local, Trump habría tomado su decisión tras las audiencias de Noem en el Congreso, durante las cuales se vio en aprietos por la adjudicación de un importante contrato público. Entonces fue duramente cuestionada por senadores demócratas y también por el republicano Thom Tillis, que pidió su dimisión y recordó el polémico episodio de su libro en el que Noem relataba cómo había matado a su perra y a una cabra.
El departamento de Seguridad Nacional se encuentra parcialmente cerrado por falta de fondos desde el 14 de febrero a la espera de que demócratas y republicanos acuerden cambios en los procesos operativos de las redadas migratorias que desatasquen la aprobación de la partida presupuestaria.
Al margen de las controvertidas redadas, la presión sobre Noem fue aumentando en los últimos días frente a una polémica y agresiva campaña para publicitar la labor de su departamento adjudicada el año pasado. Se conoció que su cartera abanderó una “emergencia” fronteriza para justificar la concesión, sin licitación previa, de la campaña, valorada en unos 220 millones de dólares, a una entidad controlada por el marido de la exportavoz del propio de la secretaría de Seguridad, Tricia McLaughlin.
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En un extenso mensaje en su red Truth Social, Trump afirmó: “Me complace anunciar que el muy respetado senador estadounidense del gran estado de Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, asumirá el cargo de Secretario de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) de Estados Unidos a partir del 31 de marzo de 2026″.
“La actual secretaria, Kristi Noem, quien nos ha servido eficazmente y ha obtenido numerosos y espectaculares resultados (¡especialmente en la frontera!), pasará a ser Enviada Especial para el Escudo de las Américas, nuestra nueva Iniciativa de Seguridad en el Hemisferio Occidental que anunciaremos el sábado en Doral, Florida», indicó.
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Además, señaló: “Agradezco a Kristi su servicio. Tras 10 años en la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos y 3 en el Senado, Markwayne ha realizado una labor excepcional representando al maravilloso pueblo de Oklahoma, donde gané en 77 de los 77 condados en 2016, 2020 y 2024″.
“Un guerrero MAGA y ex luchador profesional invicto de MMA (Artes Marciales Kixtas), Markwayne se lleva muy bien con la gente y posee la sabiduría y el coraje necesarios para impulsar nuestra agenda de ‘América Primero’. Como el único nativo americano en el Senado, Markwayne es un defensor excepcional de nuestras increíbles comunidades tribales”, prosiguió.
En el final de su posteo, dijo: “Markwayne trabajará incansablemente para mantener nuestra frontera segura, detener la delincuencia migratoria, los asesinos y otros delincuentes que ingresan ilegalmente a nuestro país, acabar con el flagelo de las drogas ilegales y hacer que Estados Unidos vuelva a ser seguro. Markwayne será un excelente Secretario de Seguridad Nacional. ¡Gracias por su atención!“.
(Con información de AFP, EFE y AP)
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Trump’s new DHS pick is an illegal immigration hawk who’s ‘all about the mission’: Expert
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Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump’s new pick to lead the embattled Department of Homeland Security, is a supporter of strict immigration enforcement who, in the last year, has proved invaluable in getting key pieces of the president’s agenda across the finish line.
A first-term senator who identifies as Native American, Mullin is a self-described «bull in a China cabinet» who was instrumental in the Senate’s passage of the Trump-backed One Big Beautiful Bill. Lora Ries, a border security and immigration expert at the Heritage Foundation, predicted to Fox News Digital that Mullin will have a focused leadership approach as head of DHS.
«It won’t be about him, it’s about the mission, and it’s about carrying out the president’s agenda to maintain a secure border, but also mass deportations,» she said.
Shortly after news of his appointment broke, Mullin called it a «big surprise» but said he is «excited» to take on the role.
Trump named Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-OK, as the next head of DHS. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
«The president and I have a really good relationship; we talk all the time anyway. I wasn’t, to be quite honest with you, expecting the call today. But it’s super exciting,» he told reporters outside the Capitol.
He said that his focus as DHS secretary will be to «keep the homeland secure.»
«Nothing is going to prevent me from doing my job,» he continued. «I’m going to enforce the policies and the laws that Congress has passed, and we’re going to protect the homeland.»
Ries said that Mullin’s appointment signals Trump doubling down on his agenda of maintaining a secure border. Ries also said she does not expect the transition from outgoing Secretary Kristi Noem to Mullin to disrupt the agency’s enforcement operations.
«We can’t waste any time, given we’re concerned with sleeper cells from Iran and other locations, terrorist threats that Joe Biden let into the country,» she added.
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Immigrants wait to be processed at a U.S. Border Patrol transit center after they crossed the border from Mexico on December 20, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images)
At 48 years old, Mullin is a husband and father of six. He has served in the Senate for just over three years, entering office in January 2023. Before that, he served in the House of Representatives for about 10 years.
Currently, Mullin serves as the chair of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee. He does not serve on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the panel that he will soon sit before during his confirmation process.
He is also a member of Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s, R-S.D., leadership team and proved a decisive asset in extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts last year.
It was, however, the relationships he built in the lower chamber that made him a de facto liaison with his former House colleagues. That role began when former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., with whom Mullin was close friends, was in leadership and has continued under House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.
That role as liaison, which Mullin previously told Fox News Digital he never wanted, made him an invaluable asset last year when Republicans were trying to pass Trump’s big beautiful bill. Mullin had already become a member of Thune’s whip team and offered to help bridge the policy gap between House Republicans and Senate Republicans to ensure the legislation was passed.
Both chambers were going back and forth on the bill, which Mullin told Fox News Digital last year wasn’t necessarily «a good indication that we were butting heads.»
«Everybody was very passionate about this,» Mullin said. «I mean, they’ve been working for a long time. We looked at it as maybe a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us to be able to get this done.»
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Then-Sen.-elect, Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla. is seen in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, November 15, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
On Mullin’s website, he states, «We are a nation of laws, and those laws must be upheld.»
«We must ensure our immigration laws are enforced, bring back the Remain in Mexico policy, finish building the wall, and end the liberal incentives that are fueling the worst border crisis in American history,» Mullin’s website reads.
Mullin has harshly criticized Democrats for moving to defund DHS, saying, «If we defund the Department of Homeland Security, they do a lot more than arrest illegals. You walk through the airport, they’re providing security. The Department of Homeland Security is there for a reason … They protect us from threats at home and abroad, around the United States and across the world.»
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After the lapse in DHS funding, Mullin slammed the Democrats for «political theater,» saying he was focused on restoring the funding.
When asked if there were any lessons Mullin had learned from her tumultuous tenure atop the agency, he noted that he and Noem were close friends, but that he had not yet had time to call her yet after receiving the news.
«Our families are friends. She was tasked to do a very difficult job. And I think she has, she has performed the best she can do,» Mullin said.
«Is there always lessons that can be learned? You know, listen, my wife and I, we have, over the years, we have been fortunate enough to purchase companies and grow our companies, and every day there’s something you can do better,» he continued. «And so, I think there’s, there’s an opportunity to build off successes, and there’s also opportunities to build off things that maybe didn’t go quite as planned.»
Mullin said he and Trump are «great friends» and «I look forward to working for him on his cabinet.» He noted, «Of course, we still have this whole thing called confirmation, and we’re going to get started on that right away.»
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Donald Trump dijo que Zelensky debería “llegar a un acuerdo” con Rusia para finalizar la guerra en Ucrania
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, instó nuevamente al mandatario ucraniano, Volodimir Zelensky, a alcanzar un “acuerdo” que ponga fin a la guerra en Ucrania, argumentando que su par ruso, Vladimir Putin, está “dispuesto” a negociar.
“Zelenski debe moverse y llegar a un acuerdo. Creo que Putin está dispuesto a llegar a un acuerdo”, declaró Trump en una entrevista concedida al medio Politico. El mandatario estadounidense retomó expresiones utilizadas durante una reunión en la Casa Blanca hace un año, donde reprendió públicamente a Zelenski y sugirió que el líder ucraniano se encuentra en una posición débil que lo obliga a hacer concesiones.
“Es impensable que él sea el obstáculo”, afirmó Trump y analizó las negociaciones que está impulsando su administración entre Kiev y Moscú: “(Zelensky) no tienes las cartas. Ahora él tiene todavía menos cartas”.
Trump cuestionó reiteradamente el apoyo financiero del país norteamericano a Ucrania y manifestó su admiración por Putin. Las declaraciones sobre Ucrania coinciden con la ofensiva militar que Estados Unidos mantiene junto a Israel contra el régimen iraní, campaña en la que, según el mandatario, se han invertido millones de dólares.
Desde su asunción en enero de 2025, Trump prometió terminar con la guerra en Ucrania, aunque admitió que lograr ese objetivo ha resultado difícil. Mientras tanto, el Kremlin sostiene sus ataques en territorio ucraniano. Trump ha evitado adoptar medidas más duras contra Putin y lo describió como el único líder capaz de negociar con ambas partes.
Zelensky afirmó el miércoles que, “en este momento, debido a la situación en torno a Irán, no hay señales claras que indiquen la posibilidad de una reunión trilateral”, la cual estaba pactada para que comience el 5 de marzo. Agregó que, “tan pronto como la situación de seguridad y el contexto político lo permitan, reanudaremos ese trabajo diplomático trilateral”.
En medio de las pausadas conversaciones entre las delegaciones de los países involucrados en la guerra que inició días atrás su quinto año, Ucrania y Rusia liberaron este jueves a 200 prisioneros de guerra cada uno, en el primer tramo de un intercambio que prevé la liberación de 500 personas por cada país, según informaron funcionarios de ambas partes.
El plan para el canje se alanzó durante conversaciones celebradas en Ginebra el mes pasado.
El mandatario ucraniano destacó el impacto de la medida en redes sociales: “Hoy, 200 familias ucranianas recibieron el mensaje más esperado: sus seres queridos regresan a casa”. Un video difundido por el Comisionado de Derechos Humanos de Ucrania, Dmytro Lubinets, mostró a militares descendiendo de autobuses envueltos en banderas ucranianas y gritando “¡Gloria a Ucrania!”, además de abrazar a quienes los recibieron.
Entre los prisioneros liberados por Rusia se encuentran soldados ucranianos capturados en 2022, incluidos quienes participaron en el asedio de tres meses a la planta de acero de Azovstal en Mariúpol, precisó Lubinets.
Por su parte, el Ministerio de Defensa ruso difundió imágenes de sus soldados subiendo a un autobús, vitoreando y ondeando banderas rusas. Rusia informó que Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Estados Unidos participaron en la mediación del intercambio.
De acuerdo con el negociador ruso Vladimir Medinsky, nuevas liberaciones están previstas para el viernes y el acuerdo contempla el intercambio de 500 prisioneros en total por cada bando. Los intercambios de prisioneros de guerra se mantienen como uno de los pocos ámbitos de cooperación entre ambos países desde el inicio del conflicto.
(Con información de AFP)
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