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‘It just never ends.’
Judah Samet, 80, a Holocaust survivor who also survived the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pa. The attack killed 11, and prosecutors said they will seek the death penalty for alleged shooter Robert Bowers.
‘I think healing is the most important thing that can happen in this country.’
U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., on publicly forgiving Pierre Alejandro Verges-Castro, 19, of Homestead, Fla., who was arrested by the FBI and local police for sending a tweet threatening to kill Curbelo. “He made a mistake, and his life shouldn’t be ruined because of it,” Curbelo said at a news conference with Verges-Castro next to him.
‘Yesterday I was sad, today I’m angry.’
Kevin Gunn, nephew of Vickie Lee Jones, an African-American woman who was shot and killed at a grocery store in Louisville, Ky. According to security footage, the suspect tried and failed to enter a black church before going to the grocery store and shooting two black customers.
‘This is beyond our power to control. This is going straight to the pleasure centers of the developing brain.’
Former Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson on the addictiveness of cell phone screens and the likelihood that they are stunting children’s development. The New York Times reports that other leaders in Silicon Valley keep their children away from screens. Athena Chavarria of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative told the Times: “I am convinced the devil lives in our phones and is wreaking havoc on our children.”
‘He loved the Lord. He loved people. The Lord giveth. The Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.’
Indiana state Rep. Tim Wesco on his brother Charles Wesco, who was killed when gunfire struck the windshield of his car near Bamenda, Cameroon. Charles, his wife, and eight children arrived in the West African nation as Baptist missionaries two weeks before the shooting.
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