BEYOND THOUGHTS & PRAYERS - 97Percent

After months of deliberation, the U.S. Supreme Court arrived at a decision in United States v. Hemani on June 18, ruling that the federal government cannot automatically...

Safe storage is important—even when you might think it’s not. A tragic story out of Washington, D.C., makes that clear.

A 15-year-old girl was

Yesterday was Gun Violence Awareness Day and the 12th year of the Wear Orange movement. It was the start of a month dedicated to remembering the millions of Americans touched every year by gun violence.

The d...

The news in May 2026 was loud. A war in the Middle East. The economy. Political upheaval at every level of government. It would be easy to miss—and understandable why you might scroll past—a shooting headline. There is only so much news one can absorb.

But while we were distracted by a seemingly endless strea...

The big news in Washington this week is the $1.776 billion fund that’s been created by the Justice Department to settle President Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. The fund will be used to compensate people Trump claims have been unfairly targeted through government “weaponization,” including defendants who committed violent ...