At Least 5 People Killed in Maryland Newspaper Shooting
Maryland police officers block the intersection at the building entrance, after multiple people were shot at a newspaper in Annapolis, Md., Thursday, June 28, 2018.Jose Luis Magana/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At least five people were killed and several others injured Thursday afternoon when a gunman opened fire at…
America’s Largest Doctor’s Group Calls for a Ban on Assault Weapons
CherriesJD/Getty/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The biggest group of physicians in the US called for a ban on assault weapons this week, reiterating that gun violence is a serious public health crisis and decrying proposals by the Trump administration to arm school teachers. Though many members of the American Medical…
Suicide Rates Are Up in Almost Every State, and Donald Trump’s Policies Are Not Going to Help
Mother Jones; Cheriss May/NurPhoto/ZUMA; CDC Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A week after the back-to-back suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain renewed the national conversation over mental health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released numbers showing that America’s overall suicide rate has climbed by a whopping 30…
Thousands are “Dying” Across the Country to Mark the Two Year Anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting
Protesters participate in a die-in Tuesday in West Palm Beach, Florida, across the water from the Mar-a-Lago resort, to mark the anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting.Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At noon Tuesday, Capitol Hill was littered with the bodies of high school students from…
Kris Kobach Just Went on Parade With a Machine Gun
Pete Marovich/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It is tradition for candidates for political office to spend their weekend mornings marching in small-town parades, shaking hands and kissing babies. But on Saturday, Kansas Secretary of the State Kris Kobach—who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor—did it with a twist:…
Dancing FBI Agent Accidentally Shoots Bar Patron
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. ABC News reports: “An FBI agent got himself into an embarrassing situation on Saturday when his service weapon fell out of its holster while dancing at a Denver club and he accidentally shot a fellow patron while retrieving it.” An FBI agent struts his stuff on…