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| USA TODAY evacuated its newsroom over a reported gunman, while Trump visited survivors of horrific mass shootings. And Cyntoia Brown is finally free. |
| It's Alia Dastagir, in for Ashley amid a wild — and terrifying — afternoon for us. |
| But first, Trump says there's an "appetite" for background checks: Before he departed Wednesday for visits to El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, President Donald Trump said he is considering tougher background checks for gun buyers, though he doesn't think there's a "political appetite" for limiting gun magazines. |
The words you want to hear |
| "Everyone is safe." That's what Fairfax County (Virginia) Police announced Wednesday after heavily armed officers evacuated USA TODAY's staff from their headquarters in the Washington suburbs. A report of a person with a weapon ultimately proved to be false. Alarms sounded inside the building as police squad cars, firetrucks, helicopters and ambulances converged on the scene. The overwhelming police response comes after the attack last year at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland. A gunman burst into the newsroom there and killed five employees of the paper. News organizations, including USA TODAY, tightened security after the shooting. |
 | | A screengrab captured from an employee's webcam shows police searching the second floor of the Gannett offices on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. | | USA TODAY | |
Trump visits El Paso and Dayton |
| President Donald Trump visited two grief-stricken cities Wednesday after mass shootings in Ohio and Texas left 31 people dead, but many residents didn't welcome him warmly and some local officials even suggested it would be better if the president stay away. Trump has been accused of inflaming racial tensions, creating an atmosphere of hate, and doing more to divide the country during his presidency than unify it. Trump condemned white supremacy in a speech on Monday (one of the shooters allegedly published an anti-Hispanic screed), but for many Americans, it wasn't enough. Here's what his visits looked like. |
Some (inaccurate) musings from Tucker Carlson |
| Tucker Carlson says he thinks people are making too big of a deal out of white supremacy. During "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Tuesday, the Fox News host said white supremacy is "not a real problem" in the United States and that President Donald Trump's condemnation of it was unnecessary because the number of people who are members of white supremacist groups in the U.S. could "fit inside a football stadium." The number of hate groups active in the USA rose to its highest level in two decades last year, according to an annual survey released this year by the Southern Poverty Law Center. |
Pausing a moment to honor a hero |
| When the gunshots rang out in El Paso, Texas, Gilbert Serna didn't hesitate. The Walmart employee is being hailed as a hero after he helped dozens of people flee to safety during the mass shooting at his store on Saturday. "I was scared, I'm not going to lie, but I wasn't thinking about my own safety. I was thinking about everybody else's safety," Serna told CNN. Serna says he led a group of customers and employees out the back of the store through a fire exit, opened multiple shipping containers and hid the large group of roughly 100 people inside. |
What everyone's talking about |
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Cyntoia Brown is officially free |
| Cyntoia Brown, an alleged sex trafficking victim sentenced to life in prison for killing a man when she was 16, was released Wednesday on parole for 10 years. Brown is free after serving 15 years of her a life sentence for the 2004 murder of a Nashville realtor . She said she was scared for her life when she shot the 43-year-old who picked her up for sex. Former Gov. Bill Haslam took the rare step of commuting her sentence earlier this year, paving the way for her release. Brown's complicated story has garnered national attention for racial inequities in the justice system. |
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