IRVINE, Calif.—To boost residents’ confidence in public safety considering recent events involving gun violence, the Irvine Police Department shared plans with the community to prevent and respond to threats to schools on June 9. Officers discussed public safety programs and tools used by Irvine’s school district to protect students from active shooting incidents. “Our commitment…

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted that she was wrong about rising inflation. She was among those who initially said that inflation would be temporary, if at all. Vance Ginn is chief economist at the Texas Public Policy Institute, and he’ll be joining us to assess the key factors driving inflation. What’s the administration’s latest step…

The mother of Robb Elementary School shooter Salvador Ramos is begging for forgiveness from the victims and the victims’ families. “Forgive me, forgive my son. I know he had his reasons,” Adriana Martínez Reyes, mother of Salvador Ramos, said to the victims’ families in an interview with Spanish-language station Televisa. When prompted about what reasons…

Commentary When a tragedy involving the shooting of kids occurs, pundits race to their podiums bleating, “How could this ever happen? Guns should be outlawed; teachers should carry concealed weapons; and mental health care needs more money.” The list of “what we need to do’s” goes on and on. I get it. These make sense…

You have to give Australian director Phillip Noyce (“Dead Calm,” “Sliver,” “Salt”) and screenwriter Chris Sparling credit for two things. They chose to make a movie about a school shooting and did so within a real-time presentation. Coupling such a volatile sub-genre with a style of filmmaking most people regard as a gimmick is a…

Viral social media threats of school shootings are cancelling class across the country, Democrats fail to include their immigration reform plan in the Build Back Better spending bill, and the White House has a grim warning for unvaccinated Americans ahead of the holidays.

Commentary Children cannot legally buy guns. It’s adults who introduce guns into a home, where curious or disturbed kids can get access to the deadly weapons. So, who is to blame if a youngster gets a firearm and uses it to commit mass murder, as 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley did in Oxford, Michigan, recently? The law…