10 things you need to know today: October 29, 2018

Mourners honor victims of Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, Trump and his allies reject attempts to link harsh rhetoric to violence, and more

Flowers at a memorial for the people killed in PIttsburgh
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1. Names of Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims released as community mourns

Pittsburgh authorities on Sunday released the names of the 11 people killed by the gunman who opened fire with a semi-automatic assault-style rifle in the Tree of Life synagogue. The dead included eight men and three women. The oldest was Rose Mallinger, 97; the youngest were brothers David and Cecil Rosenthal, 54 and 59. Husband and wife Sylvan and Bernice Simon, 86 and 84, also were among the dead. Investigators said the suspected gunman, Robert Bowers, had posted rants against Jews and immigrants on social media. Thousands gathered in Pittsburgh to mourn the dead, saying their names out loud and rejecting hate. "What happened yesterday will not break us," said Rabbi Jonathan Perlman, leader of New Light Congregation, which worshiped in the synagogue. "It will not ruin us."

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.