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  • How reporters can use The Trace’s Gun Violence Data Hub 

    In 2024, The Trace launched the Gun Violence Data Hub to help supply reliable data on gun violence to newsrooms, researchers and the public. Last November, the nonprofit newsroom — which is dedicated to covering gun violence — celebrated the Data Hub’s one-year anniversary.  We checked in with Aaron Mendelson, a data journalist and the…

  • Network of firearm violence researchers offers journalists a reliable source

    After Congress restored federal funding for gun violence research in 2019, researchers rejoiced.  For the first time in decades, Congress began allocating $25 million annually to the CDC and the National Institutes of Health to revive long-stalled gun violence research. As of 2024, at least $137 million has been distributed across 127 projects since 2020. …

  • Firearm homicide rates higher among pregnant women than nonpregnant women, study shows

    American women are more likely to be murdered during pregnancy or soon after child birth than the three leading obstetric causes of maternal death: hypertensive disorders, hemorrhage and sepsis, researchers have determined.  And a new study found that those deaths increase with firearm ownership, adding to existing research on the killing of pregnant and post-partum…

  • Maine becomes 22nd state with a red flag law

    Maine voters passed the state’s first red flag law in November, creating a legal pathway to temporarily prevent someone in crisis from accessing firearms.  Red flag laws, also called gun violence restraining orders or extreme risk protection orders, allow loved ones or law enforcement to petition a court for an order to temporarily remove firearms…

  • Why children’s exposure to intimate partner violence needs more coverage

    Children in Oceania, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Central and Southern Asia are most likely to live with a mother who has experienced physical, emotional or sexual abuse by a partner in the past year, according to a first-ever regional analysis from UNICEF.  The new data brief found that over half of children in Oceania and around…

  • JAMA Summit charts road map to reduce gun violence to record lows by 2040

    Dozens of violence prevention leaders from across the country convened in Chicago in March to discuss how to achieve “the safest world possible by 2040,” according to a new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.  A first-of-its-kind meeting for the journal, the JAMA Summit on Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms brought together…

  • Guns are the leading cause of death for American children. What to know

    More American kids die from guns than any other cause of death.  In 2021, gun violence replaced car crashes as the leading cause of death for children in the U.S. Since then, it’s remained the leading killer. More than 4,450 kids ages 19 and younger died in 2023, the most recent year for available data…

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