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El Paso resident blames Trump’s rhetoric for enabling violence: “It opens doors to people… to eventually kill”

President Trump will head to El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday, where 22 people were killed this weekend in a mass shooting at a Walmart. At least seven of those killed were Mexican citizens. Police say the alleged gunman posted a racist manifesto online before the shooting, in which he denounced the growing Hispanic population in Texas. CBS News spoke with one immigrant who said she feels the president’s language, which is echoed in the manifesto, enables violence like this. Source

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Project remodels basketball courts with colorful murals

Basketball courts are often a gathering place in urban communities, but many are in bad shape. That inspired one hoop-loving guy to start a nonprofit that changes blacktops from “drab to fab.” Jamie Yuccas shows how the transformations are also inspiring some kids to “aim higher.” Source

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Common traits like childhood trauma, behavioral changes link mass shooters

The Violence Project has studied every U.S. mass shooting since 1966. Its database, which is not publicly available yet, includes 160 mass shooters who have killed four or more people in a public place. Nearly all were male and the average age was 34-years-old. The study found most shooters shared common traits, like experiencing childhood trauma. The researchers also learned these shootings are “socially contagious.” Psychologist Jillian Peterson, co-founder of The Violence Project, joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss the findings. Source

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Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in “Beloved,” ”Song of Solomon” and other works transformed American letters by dramatizing the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, has died at age 88. Source

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