Biden briefed on Indianapolis shooting as White House says he's determined to act on gun violence
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President Joe Biden was briefed Friday morning on the mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility that killed at least eight people, and the White House says the President's determination to act on gun violence has "redoubled" in the wake of recent mass shootings across the country.
"Like all of you, we're horrified by the shooting overnight at a FedEx facility," Psaki told reporters at a White House briefing on Friday. Psaki said: "The President has spent his entire career working to address gun violence and his determination to act has been redoubled by senseless killings we've seen both in mass shootings like this and in the lives lost to the epidemic of gun violence every single day in communities across our country."At least 30 people were detained by New York Police Department officers, CNN witnessed, as police entered Columbia University on Thursday to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest that began a day earlier as the university’s president testified before a House committee about the school’s response to antisemitism.
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