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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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Pro-Palestinian conference panelist calls US ‘evil,’ urges ‘destroying the idea of America’
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A panelist speaking at the «People’s Conference for Palestine» in Detroit on Friday called the United States «an evil country» and expressed a need to «destroy the idea of America in Americans’ heads.»
Speaking on a panel titled «No Weapons for Genocide: The People Demand an Arms Embargo,» Sachin Peddada, a Ph.D. student in economics and research coordinator at Progressive International, repeatedly ripped on the United States as an «empire» motivated by greed.
In response to a question about how Americans can get more involved, Peddada paraphrased a quote by deceased Palestinian author Bassel al-Araj, saying, «The average American will never understand the plight of the Palestinian person because the state of Israel is a carbon copy of the United States.
«And, therefore, the thing to do is to destroy the idea of America in Americans’ heads so that they can see the humanity of everybody outside the warping of American exceptionalism and imperialism and all these evil things.»
As Peddada said these words, the crowd broke into applause.
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The statue of George Washington at the university that bears his name wears Palestinian flags, a keffiyeh and stickers in a Gaza solidarity encampment in Washington, D.C., May 6, 2024. (Allison Bailey/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
Peddada continued, saying, «We have to dismantle this idea of American exceptionalism, of supremacy, of being beyond reproach.
«I think it’s very important that we normalize criticism as a healthy process and learn from our experiments in the world to push the boundaries of what is possible, to continue to fight for more and more and to see how the empire responds to us, to continue to push farther and harder.»
At another point during the panel, Peddada declared, «We live in an evil country.»
He said that, since Oct. 7, 2023, «We can say with certainty that the U.S. has been the most complicit country — complicit is not even the right word to use — but the most responsible country for what is happening not only in Gaza but also the West Bank and also all over the global south.»
Peddada claimed that the U.S. is a country that has «functionally for decades been the sole superpower of the world» and has «an agenda that is driven primarily by the accumulation of profit at the expense of human lives.
COLUMBIA PROFESSOR WHO CALLED OCT. 7 HAMAS ATTACKS ‘AWESOME’ TO TEACH COURSE ON ZIONISM
Protesters rally outside the Indiana state House chamber in Indianapolis Jan. 18, 2024. (Isabella Volmert/AP Photo)
«To obfuscate that point or beat around the bush there does not serve us; we live in an evil country, that’s just what’s happening,» he said as the crowd again broke into applause.
«That doesn’t mean we’re all evil,» he added. «But it does mean we have a unique responsibility. We have a unique position here in the heart of the empire to act in solidarity with all of our siblings in Gaza and in the West Bank, all around the world.»
Commenting on the remarks, one user on X posted, «As an American, I find this galling.»
«My culture and history have already been relentlessly attacked — statues of Washington, Jefferson, and other Founders torn down as ‘controversial,’» he said. «Now we have conference speakers openly talking about ‘destroying the idea of America.’»
SQUAD MEMBERS SUED FOR ‘INCITING’ COLUMBIA ANTI-ISRAEL ENCAMPMENT
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters gather at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City Dec. 19, 2023. (Stephen Yang for Fox News Digital)
The People’s Conference for Palestine, organized by a dozen pro-Palestinian groups, began Friday and will run through Sunday. Even before it started, the gathering drew scrutiny for featuring speakers with extremist views, including two former prisoners of Israel released in a Hamas deal, alongside Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., a prominent anti-Israel congresswoman.
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The conference opened Friday afternoon with an elaborate opening ceremony, in which a speaker, after leading the crowd in chants, invited attendees to rise for «our national anthem» as a band began playing a song in a foreign language. People wearing keffiyehs proceeded in, holding Palestinian flags.
Fox News Digital reached out to Progressive International and the People’s Conference for Palestine for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
Fox News Digital’s Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.
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El opositor Luis Fernando Camacho fue excarcelado en Bolivia y anunció que vuelve al poder en Santa Cruz de la Sierra: «¡Ya estamos de ida!»
El líder opositor y gobernador suspendido de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Luis Fernando Camacho (46), fue excarcelado este viernes en Bolivia tras permanecer en prisión preventiva casi tres años por su presunta participación en las protestas de 2019 que precipitaron la renuncia del entonces presidente Evo Morales.
La salida de la prisión cercana a La Paz se produjo luego de que el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia ordenó esta semana que se le revoque el arresto preventivo y se le otorgue la detención domiciliaria con derecho a trabajar. Por esa razón, Camacho retorna a la región de Santa Cruz, donde su defensa adelantó que retomará sus funciones.
A su salida del penal, el dirigente opositor abrazó a los policías del penal de Chonchocoro y caminó flanqueado por familiares y abogados. Lo hizo con su banda de gobernador en el pecho y una bandera verde y blanca de su región.
Se subió a un auto y se fue al aeropuerto de El Alto, donde tomó un vuelo privado para ir a Santa Cruz. Remarcó que asumirá funciones una vez pise suelo de su región, donde sus partidarios le preparan una festiva bienvenida en las calles de la ciudad.
“Como decía (Nelson) Mandela, en la cárcel se descubre uno mismo, analiza los errores que cometió y valora mejor a la gente», dijo Camacho a su salida. “Jamás me arrodillé y dije siempre que voy a salir por la puerta grande, nunca negociando mi libertad. No pude ver crecer a mi hijo pero fue mi compromiso con Dios y con mi familia”.
«El mejor vengador es Dios, no tengo odio, ni rencor, la cárcel fortaleció mis convicciones. No voy a huir del país”, agregó Camacho, que afronta un proceso por presunta sedición después de liderar las protestas en 2019 que precipitaron la renuncia de Morales (2006-2019), luego de las denuncias por presunto fraude en los comicios de ese año en los que buscaba un nuevo mandato.
Además, enfrenta otro juicio por haber encabezado, tras ser elegido gobernador de Santa Cruz, protestas durante 36 días en contra del gobierno del presidente Luis Arce para exigir que realizara un nuevo censo de población. Estos procesos seguirán mientras cumple arresto domiciliario, aunque podrá salir a realizar sus labores, según dictaminó el juez en La Paz.
El Tribunal Supremo de Justicia ordenó esta semana que se revoque también el arresto preventivo de la expresidenta interina Jeanine Áñez (2019-2020) y del dirigente cívico Marco Antonio Pumari por haberse excedido el plazo de esa medida. Los tres están acusados en el contexto de las protestas de 2019 que dejaron al menos 37 muertos y forzaron la renuncia de Morales.
La libertad de Áñez tomaría más tiempo ya que la Justicia debe anular varios procesos en curso en la vía ordinaria para que se inicie en libertad un juicio político reservado a exmandatarios en el ejercicio del cargo, explicó su abogado defensor Luis Guillén.
Áñez participa el viernes de una audiencia virtual por la muerte de manifestantes en la que está procesada por presunto genocidio. La exmandataria lleva cuatro años y cinco meses detenida en un penal común de La Paz condenada a 10 años por «incumplimiento de deberes y resoluciones contrarias a la constitución» por la sesión parlamentaria en la que asumió el cargo siendo senadora opositora tras la renuncia de Morales.
La Corte Suprema debe analizar un pedido de «revisión extraordinaria de sentencia» para que el juicio «se reencause por la vía que corresponde, un juicio de responsabilidades», destacó Guillén. Después de ese pronunciamiento, que no tiene plazo, Añez podría salir libre.
La fiscalía alega que el mandato de Áñez fue «ilegal» y producto de un «golpe de Estado». La oposición sostiene que las protestas de 2019 fueron una «rebelión contra el fraude».
Amnistía Internacional y la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) dijeron que los juicios en contra de los tres tienen motivaciones políticas y que no se respetó el debido proceso.
La decisión de la Justicia se da tras las elecciones del 17 de agosto que marcaron un giro político luego de la derrota del izquierdista Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) de Morales y Arce, que gobernó por casi 20 años la nación andina.
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Friday grilled lawyers for the Justice Department and Lisa Cook over President Donald Trump’s historic attempt to fire her from the Federal Reserve.
The landmark case is almost certain to be kicked to the Supreme Court for review. Despite the high-stakes nature of the legal dispute, Friday’s hearing ended after more than two hours without clear resolution.
U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee, declined to immediately grant the temporary restraining order sought by Lisa Cook’s attorneys, which would keep her in her role on the Fed’s Board of Governors for now.
Cook’s lawyers included the request for the temporary restraining order in the lawsuit filed in federal court on Thursday, challenging Trump’s attempt to fire her from her position on the independent board due to allegations of mortgage fraud.
APPEALS COURT BLOCKS TRUMP FROM FIRING FEDERAL BOARD MEMBERS, TEES UP SUPREME COURT FIGHT
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the Oval Office of the White House Aug. 22, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
Instead, Judge Cobb ordered both parties to submit any supplemental briefs to the court by Tuesday, shortly before she dismissed the lawyers for the long weekend.
Cobb noted the novelty of the case before her, which involves the first attempt by a sitting president to oust a Federal Reserve governor «for cause.»
The fraud allegations were first leveled by Bill Pulte, a Trump appointee to the federal agency that regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He accused Cook of claiming two primary residences in two separate states in 2021, with the goal of obtaining more favorable loan conditions.
Trump followed up by posting a letter on Truth Social earlier this week that he had determined «sufficient cause» to fire Cook, a dismissal he said was «effective immediately,» prompting her attorneys to file the emergency lawsuit.
The crux of Friday’s arguments centered on the definition of what «for cause» provisions must entail for removal from the board under the Federal Reserve Act, or FRA, a law designed to shield members from the political whims of the commander in chief or members of Congress.
The arguments also centered on Cook’s claims in her lawsuit that Trump’s attempt to fire her amounts to an illegal effort to remove her from the Fed well before her tenure is slated to end in January 2038 to install his own nominee.
Lawyers for Cook argued that her firing was merely a «pretext» for Trump to secure a majority on the Fed board, a contention that Cobb admitted made her «uncomfortable.»
They also attempted to poke holes in the mortgage fraud allegations, which they said were made on social media and «backfilled.»
The case «obviously raises important questions» about the Federal Reserve Board, Cobb said shortly before adjourning court.
She also noted that she had not yet made a determination about the alleged «irreparable harm,» prompting her to set the Tuesday filing deadline.
TRUMP SAYS HE’S ‘ALWAYS’ READY FOR LEGAL FIGHT AS OUSTED FED GOVERNOR PLANS LAWSUIT
President Donald Trump speaks to Fed Chair Jerome Powell during a tour of the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., July 24, 2025. (Daniel Torok/White House)
Cook’s attorneys argued Friday that Trump’s attempt to fire her violates her due process rights under the Fifth Amendment, as well as her statutory right to notice and a hearing under the Federal Reserve Act.
Her lawyer, Abbe Lowell, noted on several occasions that there was no «investigation or charge» from the administration prior to Trump’s abrupt announcement that he would fire Cook.
Lowell also vehemently disputed the Justice Department’s allegations that Cook had an «opportunity» to respond to the mortgage fraud accusations leveled by Bill Pulte, noting that they were made just 30 minutes before Trump called for Cook to be removed.
He told Cobb that it was the latest attempt by the Trump administration to «litigate by tweet.»
A LOOK AT THE UNFOLDING BATTLE BETWEEN TRUMP AND POWELL OVER FED POLICY
Abbe Lowell in 2024 arriving to the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington, Delaware. Lowell, Hunter Biden’s former lawyer, is now representing Lisa Cook in her court case centered on Trump’s attempt to fire her from her role on the Fed’s Board of Governors. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Lawyers for the Trump administration, for their part, argued that the president has broad latitude to determine the «for cause» provision.
Justice Department attorney Yakoov Roth told Cobb that the determination of when to invoke the provision should be left to the president, regardless of whether it is viewed by others as «pretextual.»
«That sounds to me like the epitome of a discretionary determination, and that is when the president’s power is at [its] apex,» Roth said.
DOJ lawyers also noted that Cook, to date, has not disputed any of the allegations in question and argued there is «nothing she has said» about the allegations that would cause her to not be fired.
«What if the stated cause is demonstrably false?» Cobb asked, going on to cite hypothetical concerns that a president could, theoretically, use allegations to stack federal boards with majorities.
As for the issue of «irreparable harm,» Justice Department attorneys argued that it would be more harmful for Cook to remain in office, arguing that the «harm of having someone in office who is wrongfully there … outweighs the harm of someone being wrongfully removed from office.»
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The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Cook’s attorneys said Friday that in reviewing the lawsuit, the court need not itself establish a definition of what «cause» means under the Federal Reserve Act.
Instead, Lowell suggested, the court should instead work backwards to determine whether the accusations leveled by Pulte were in fact «backfilled» by Trump to form the basis of her removal.
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«It’s very difficult to come up with an 11-page definition of what it is,» Lowell said Friday of the «cause» definition, adding that it is far easier to come up with a one-page definition of «what it’s not.»
«Whatever it is, it’s not this,» Lowell said.
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