A gunman killed 10 people and injured 10 others at a Southern California ballroom dance studio Saturday amid Lunar New Year celebrations. 

Twenty to 30 minutes later, a man with a gun entered the Lai Lai Ballroom in nearby Alhambra but patrons wrestled the gun away from him, and he fled, authorities said.

Despite police not releasing the suspect’s identity or race, some liberals on Twitter were quick to pin the horror on white supremacy and anti-Asian hate before all the facts were known.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tweeted: ‘We must stand up to bigotry and hate wherever they rear their ugly heads, and we must keep working to stop gun violence.’

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Saturday’s shooting was ‘A horrific example of needless gun violence. With bigotry toward AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) individuals as a possible motive.’

Meanwhile, many Twitter users condemned the violence, punctuating their tweets with ‘#StopAsianHate.’

Wisconsin state Rep. Francesca Hong, sharing her condolences for the victims, tweeted: ‘We are broken as a nation to have mass shootings and white supremacy reign terror.’

Though not all details were known Sunday afternoon, authorities say that the suspected gunman was an Asian man between the ages of 30 and 50.

Authorities said Sunday they know the suspect’s name but declined to release it because it could complicate their ability to apprehend him. They released a photo showing an Asian man wearing glasses and a winter hat. The image was taken from the attempted shooting in Alhambra.

Chester Chong, chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce Los Angeles, told ABC 7 that the mass shooting was over a ‘domestic dispute.’

By midday Sunday, police in tactical vehicles and bomb squad trucks surrounded a white van in a parking lot in Torrance, located roughly 30 miles southwest of Monterey Park. A law enforcement source told Fox News that an individual inside the van had shot and killed himself.

Hours earlier, Los Angeles Sheriff Robert Luna said authorities were looking for a white van after witnesses reported seeing the suspect flee from Alhambra in such a vehicle.

The sheriff declined to say what type of gun was recovered in Alhambra. He said investigators believe the gun used in Monterey Park was not an assault rifle.

The shooting and manhunt sent a wave of fear through Asian-American communities in the Los Angeles area and cast a shadow over Lunar New Year festivities around the country.

Monterey Park is a city of about 60,000 people on the eastern edge of Los Angeles and is composed mostly of Asian immigrants from China or first-generation Asian Americans. The shooting happened in the heart of its downtown where red lanterns decorated the streets for the Lunar New Year festivities. A police car was parked near a large banner that proclaimed ‘Happy Year of the Rabbit!’

The shooting occurred at Star Ballroom Dance Studio, a few blocks from City Hall on Monterey Park’s main thoroughfare of Garvey Avenue, which is dotted with strip malls of small businesses whose signs are in both English and Chinese. Cantonese and Mandarin are both widely spoken, Chinese holidays are celebrated, and Chinese films are screened regularly in the city.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Lawmakers upped the pressure on the Biden administration to send M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine on Sunday as Russian officials warned of a ‘global catastrophe’ if more powerful weapons are supplied to Kyiv. 

Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., visited Kyiv and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over the weekend. 

‘The debacle regarding sending tanks to Ukraine must end. It is impossible for Ukraine to expel Russia without tanks. I am hoping Germany and the United States will both send tanks ASAP – opening up other countries’ desire to help Ukraine,’ Graham said in a statement on Sunday. ‘The tanks are outcome determinative in expelling Russia from Ukraine.’

Rep. Michael McCaul, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, echoed Graham’s sentiment, telling ABC News that ‘Germany’s waiting on us to take the lead’ and sending ‘just one’ Abrams tank to Ukraine could unleash the flow of them from Germany and other European countries. 

In Russia, State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of Russia’s parliament, said that providing more weapons to Ukraine risks ‘global tragedy that would destroy’ Western countries. 

‘Supplies of offensive weapons to the Kyiv regime would lead to a global catastrophe,’ Volodin said. ‘If Washington and NATO supply weapons that would be used for striking peaceful cities and making attempts to seize our territory as they threaten to do, it would trigger a retaliation with more powerful weapons.’

The UK announced last week that they would send 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, but the U.S. and other allies have been hesitant to released their own battle tanks in the war. 

French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that he asked his defense minister to ‘work on’ the idea of sending Leclerc battle tanks to Ukraine, while Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that his country was waiting for the green light from Germany to transfer Leopard tanks to Ukraine. 

‘Evidence of the Russian army’s war crimes can be seen on television and on YouTube,’ Morawiecki said in an interview with the Polish state news agency PAP on Sunday. ‘What more does Germany need to open its eyes and start to act in line with the potential of the German state?’

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told French TV channel LCI on Sunday that they would not object to Poland sending Leopard tanks to Ukraine if they were formally asked. 

The U.S. announced an additional $2.5 billion in military aid for Ukraine on Thursday, including 90 Stryker combat vehicles and 59 Bradley fighting vehicles, but no tanks. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

Vice President Kamala Harris required all attendees of her event on Sunday in Tallahassee, Florida to sign a form confirming whether they have been vaccinated or not, according to reports.

The requirement is a counter-approach to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s claims that the vaccine is being used as a weapon. The governor plans to propose protections for residents, such as a ban on vaccine and mask requirements, during the next legislative session.

The form was titled, ‘Attestation of Vaccination,’ and it required guest to indicate whether they are unvaccinated, partially vaccinated or vaccinated.

Those who decline to indicate either were required provide proof that they completed a COVID-19 test within three days of the event and received a negative result, wear a mask and socially distance themselves from others.

Anyone who was fully vaccinated and attending the event could mask, social distance and follow any other protocols set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, if they so choose.

The Republican National Committee Research Twitter handle @RNCResearch tweeted about the form on Sunday.

‘Kamala Harris made people sign an ‘attestation of vaccination’ to attend her incoherent speech in Florida today,’ the tweet read.

Followers of the page had mixed responses, with some agreeing for the necessity of the form, and many others mocking the requirement on the basis that vaccines do not stop transmission.

Representatives for the Vice President did not immediately respond to requests seeking additional information about the ‘Attestation for Vaccination’ requirement.

Harris was in Florida on Sunday to deliver President Biden’s memorandum on the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, to protect access to abortion pills across the country.

The vice president also gave remarks about the administration’s efforts to expand abortion rights.

Harris’ remarks come several months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark decision in June 2022, ending the constitutional right to abortion and handing states the individual power to allow, limit, or ban abortion altogether. The ruling came in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization opinion, wherein the state of Mississippi asked the Supreme Court to strike down a lower court ruling that stopped a 15-week abortion ban from taking place.

Vice President Kamala Harris left out mentioning the right to life when quoting the Declaration of Independence on Sunday during a speech in support of abortion access.

Harris’ remarks in Tallahassee, Florida, came on the 50-year-anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade, which granted women the right to an abortion nationwide. The anniversary is the first since the decision was overturned in June 2022, allowing states to set their own abortion laws.

But in Harris’ speech, she quoted the Declaration of Independence in saying that Americans are entitled to the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness, notably ignoring how that the phrase also states Americans are granted the right to life.

‘We collectively believe and know, America is a promise … It is a promise of freedom and liberty,’ Harris said. ‘Not just some, but for all. A promise we made in the Declaration of Independence, that we are each endowed with the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Be clear, these rights were not bestowed upon us, they belong to us as Americans.’

The full quote from the Declaration of Independence says Americans are endowed with the right to ‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness’ 

‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,’ the Declaration of Independence reads, according to the National Archives.

In her speech, Harris also addressed the suggestion of a federal abortion ban from some GOP lawmakers. Last fall, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) introduced a bill to ban abortions nationwide at 15 weeks of pregnancy. 

‘Republicans in Congress are now calling for a nationwide abortion ban,’ Harris said. ‘Some even from the moment of conception, the right of every woman in every state in this country to make decisions about her own body is on the line. And I’ve said it before, and I will say it again. How dare they!’

The vice president further questioned in her remarks if Americans can ‘truly be free’ without the right to abortion access.

‘America is the land of the free and the home of the brave,’ she said. ‘But let us ask, can we truly be free if a woman cannot make decisions about her own body? Can we truly be free if the doctor cannot care for her patients? Can we truly be free if families cannot make intimate decisions about the course of their own line? And can we truly be free if so-called leaders claim to be, quote — I quote, ‘on the vanguard of freedom,’ while they dare to restrict the rights of the American people and attack the very foundations of freedom?’

A group of pro-choice protesters gathered outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion case. 

The protesters converged on the sidewalk outside Kavanaugh’s Chevy Chase, Maryland, home. The march appeared to be organized by the far-left group known as Our Rights DC. 

The group tweeted a poster inviting members to participate in the march within the neighborhoods of Justice Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts. 

The tweet then encouraged members to attend a fundraiser concert for the DC Abortion Fund. 

Video taken outside Kavanaugh’s home by The Daily Signal reporter Mary Margaret Olohan shows protesters carrying signs reading ‘our rights are not up for debate,’ ‘abortion saves lives’ and ‘abortion is healthcare.’ 

The group chanted as they marched in the rain, saying things like ‘cut his time short, a rapist should not rule the court,’ and ‘no privacy for us, no peace for you.’

Several members of law enforcement could be seen standing nearby on Kavanaugh’s property.

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Kavanaugh’s home has been the target of multiple protests in the past, which were sparked after a draft Supreme Court opinion was leaked indicating Roe v. Wade would be overturned. 

The unrest even led to an assassination attempt against Kavanaugh. Nicholas John Roske, 26, allegedly traveled from California to Maryland and showed up in Kavanaugh’s neighborhood in the early morning hours of June 8.

He was armed with a knife, pistol, ammunition, zip ties, pepper spray, duct tape and other items. He allegedly told police he was intending to use the items to kill the Supreme Court justice.

Roske told police he was upset over the leaked draft opinion on Roe v. Wade and also allegedly said that he believed the justice would loosen gun laws following the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

Roske was stopped by U.S. Marshals after he called 911 and admitted he was planning to kill Kavanaugh. 

Roske pleaded not guilty to a federal charge of attempted murder. A federal magistrate judge scheduled a jury trial to start on August 23. 

The Supreme Court did overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24. The decision effectively ended recognition of a constitutional right to abortion and gave states the power to allow, limit or ban the practice altogether.

Fox News’ Ronn Blitzer, Bradford Betz, Kelly Laco and Jake Gibson contributed to this report.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will reconsider several of President Biden’s judicial nominees that Ted Cruz, R-Texas., said last year were ‘extremists, partisans and radicals’ when they were nominated in the last Congress but failed to move.

The Senate will convene this week for the legislative work of the 118th Congress, and the Democrats’ slim 51-49 majority is expected to make it much easier to confirm Biden’s nominees than it was last year in the 50-50 Senate. In the last Congress, Republicans protested eight of these nominees by citing their records of approving lenient sentences for violent criminals and supporting left-wing causes.

Dale Ho has been renominated to be a judge on New York’s Southern District Court, and in a hearing last year, Cruz said Biden has ‘made a pattern of nominating extremists, partisans and radicals’ for administrative and judicial positions. Cruz said Ho’s record ‘reflects that same pattern of finding someone who has been an extreme partisan’ and ‘a radical.’

Cruz pointed out that Ho, who has worked for the ACLU and NAACP, had ‘tweeted attacks’ at multiple members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and that ‘far from being intemperate statements when you were a teenager, most of these tweets occurred last year.’

‘So in the last 12 months, you have engaged – or the last about 18 months – you have engaged in partisan attacks on multiple members of this committee,’ Cruz said before touching on a 2017 tweet from Ho:

‘In these dark times, I’ve been fortunate to find tremendous sense of purpose in my work as a civil rights lawyer. But as a colleague of mine asked me over lunch recently, ‘Dale, do you do this because you want to help people or because you hate conservatives?’’ Cruz said, quoting Ho. ‘What he was getting at is that anger can in fact, be a tremendous source of power. For me, righteous indignation can provide a sense of moral clarity and motivate the long hours needed to get the work done. But it’s only a short-term burst. It’s not sustaining in the long run.’

The senator asked Ho how his previous comments would assure a conservative in his courtroom of his impartiality as a judge. Ho defended his comments by saying they were from a ‘church’ conversation.

Another nominee that took heat from Republicans last year and was renominated is Rachel Bloomekatz, an Ohio public interest lawyer who was nominated last year to serve on the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Last August, Bloomekatz faced brutal questioning from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., for her defense of a 15-year-old, Brandon Moore, who beat and participated in the gang rape of a pregnant college student at gunpoint. Moore was sentenced to 141 years in prison, and a trial court ruled that he ‘could not be rehabilitated.’ Bloomekatz argued all the way up to the Ohio Supreme Court that Moore should be released early, after claiming that his sentence was a violation of the Eighth Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment.

In her hearing, Bloomekatz defended her position by saying U.S. Supreme Court precedent holds that minors should be treated differently in sentencing than adults, which Hawley said he found ‘hard to understand.’ 

‘He’s a criminal. He was 15 years old at the time he committed his horrific crimes, and what he took away from that young woman, she’ll never get back,’ Hawley said. 

Another nominee, Nusrat Jahan Choudhury, nominated to serve on a New York District Court, has spent the better part of her career as a high-ranking lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and once claimed that police kill unarmed Black men every day.

When Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., questioned Choudury on the matter in her hearing last year, she said she made the statement to make a ‘rhetorical point’ during her work as an advocate.

Despite these GOP complaints, Democrats believe they will have the upper hand on nominations this year given the 51-49 split. When Democrats cinched the majority last year, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said confirming judges to the bench would be a ‘a lot easier’ in a 51-seat majority.

‘The practical effects of the 51-seat majority, it’s big. It’s significant. It gives us a bridge. We can breathe a sigh of relief,’ Schumer said in a November 2022 press conference.

‘Obviously, judges and nominees will be a lot easier to put on the bench. We are so proud of our record with judges. It’s one of the most significant things, maybe the most even of things we’ve done,’ Schumer said.

‘It’s been amazing how Republicans have been able to use the 50-50 Senate to procedurally hold up so many appointments. It’s going to be a lot quicker, swifter and easier,’ Schumer added.

Republicans will need to pick up two Democratic ‘no’ votes in order to block Biden’s picks from being confirmed.

Fox News Digital’s Houston Keene contributed to this report. 

President Biden’s tenure in the White House has been marked with a consistent tone surrounding the Second Amendment and firearms, but on several occasions, the president has shown that he may not know the real issue at hand as he repeatedly pushes for a ban on ‘assault weapons.’

Biden’s latest remarks taking aim at strong supporters of the Second Amendment and certain firearms came last week during a speech at the National Action Network’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast in Washington, where he appeared to mock his conservative colleagues. 

‘I love my right-wing friends who talk about the tree of liberty is water of the blood of patriots,’ he said. ‘If you need to work about taking on the federal government, you need some F-15s. You don’t need an AR-15.’

The quote Biden refers to dates back to Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in a letter, ‘The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.’ Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and America’s third president.

Biden has previously said gun-rights advocates need a much bigger arsenal of weapons to take on the federal government. In July 2021, he said: ‘You need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons’ during a White House speech to outline his plan to combat gun violence. 

In the same speech, he also falsely claimed there have always been limits on the Second Amendment. 

‘The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn’t buy a cannon,’ he said. ‘The point is that there has always been the ability to limit – rationally limit – the type of weapon that can be owned and who can own it.’

These claims have been analyzed and found to be false when Biden has made them repeatedly over the past few years.

Federal gun regulation didn’t come until 1934, decades after the Second Amendment was introduced, according to Politifact.

Last November, following the 2022 midterm elections, Biden said the ‘idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick’ and insisted that the purchasing of certain firearms ‘has no socially redeeming value.’

Semi-automatic guns, including handguns and rifles, fire one bullet for each pull of the trigger.

Last August, during a campaign-style event in Pennsylvania, Biden also offered a variety of gun-related gaffes to promote his ‘Safer America’ agenda, which is focused on deterring crime, helping law enforcement, and toughening up gun laws while expanding background checks.

During the speech, Biden made a claim about the speed of AR-15 bullets. ‘Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun?’ Biden asked rhetorically during his speech.

It is unclear what the president was referencing, but AR-15s generally do not shoot the fastest bullets. 

A June study by hunting gear retailer Field and Stream looked at the fastest rifle cartridges – and AR-15 rounds did not make their list. Field & Stream listed .220 Swift, .257 Weatherby Magnum and .30/378 Weatherby as the fastest rounds, along with 224 Clark and .22 Eargesplitten Loudenboomer.

The .220 Swift, according to Outdoor Life magazine, is known as the ‘fastest commercial rifle cartridge’ in the world and releases a 48-grain bullet at 4,100 feet per second. The .220 is not listed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) on its practical list as one of the cartridges that could be used in an AR-15.

The .223 and 5.56 – two popular, high-speed AR-15 rounds – move around 2,700 to 3,100 feet per second.

During the same Pennsylvania speech, in which Biden ridiculed Second Amendment supporters and sarcastically called them ‘brave’ for believing guns are a tool for self-defense, Biden also claimed that ‘AR-15s just rip the body apart,’ which is also inaccurate. Damage from a gunshot depends on the type of bullets used.

‘For those brave right-wing Americans who say it’s all about keeping America independent and safe, if you want to fight against the country, you need an F-15,’ Biden said mockingly at the time. ‘You need something more than a gun.’

Biden’s remarks related to certain firearms, as well as the right Americans have to own them, are not confined only to his presidency, however. Before taking office – during a campaign stop in Iowa in September 2019 – Biden said it is ‘absolutely mindless’ that ‘we don’t have elimination of assault-type weapons and magazines that can hold multiple bullets in them.’

Biden’s remarks at the time seemingly dismissed the fact that a majority of modern-day firearms have magazines that hold more than one bullet in them, including the AR-15, which holds 30 rounds in a standard magazine.

Since taking office, Biden has urged Congress to pass measures related to gun control.

Last June, after it was passed by both the Democrat-controlled House and Senate, Biden signed into law the most significant gun control bill in nearly 30 years.

Spearheaded by Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, the measure came in the wake of recent mass shootings at the time and provides funding for states to create programs, often called red flag laws, that could keep weapons away from people who are a danger to themselves or others.

In addition, the measure enhances background checks for gun buyers under 21, adds penalties for some gun criminals and provides funding for a variety of health and mental health-related programs. It also addresses closing the so-called ‘boyfriend loophole,’ which is a gap in federal law that means spousal domestic abusers can have gun rights taken away but not unmarried ones.

Fox News’ Louis Casiano and Jessica Chasmar, as well as Haris Alic and Andrea Vacchiano, contributed to this article.