Stop Everything and Listen to this Knockout March for Our Lives Speech by an 11-Year-Old Girl
Naomi Wadler, 11, a student at George Mason Elementary School, speaks during the “March for Our Lives” rally.Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Naomi Wadler, an 11-year-old girl from Alexandria, Virginia, thrilled hundreds of thousands when she spoke out for “the African-American girls who don’t make the front page of…
Trump: Bump Stocks Are All Obama’s Fault
Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2017, introducing legislation to ban the sale and possession of bump-stocks. Her bill went nowhere, of course, thanks to NRA opposition and Republican cowardice.Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump this morning: Obama Administration legalized bump stocks. BAD IDEA. As I…
Fired FBI Director Andrew McCabe Fires Back at Donald Trump
Andrew McCabe testifies on Capitol Hill on May 11, 2017.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who was fired less than two days before his retirement, finally responded to President Trump in a Washington Post op-ed. McCabe accused the president of “cruelty” and said…
We Are on a Bus to DC with Students Who Lived Through Sandy Hook. Join Us.
Students from Newtown High School show off their signs in a bus en route to Washington D.C. for the March For Our Lives rally.Mark Helenowski/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The morning began at 4 a.m. inside Blue Colony Diner, a 24-hour joint glowing blue neon near the expressway…
Hundreds of Thousands of People Will March Against Gun Violence Today
Students at the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts participate in a walkout in support of March For Our Lives.John Locher/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the US—and even the world—are planning to take part in over 800 rallies and marches scheduled for…
15 Years of Collecting Rhino Semen Is Finally Paying Off
Jan Husar/SOPA Images/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For over 20 years, Thomas Hildebrandt has harboured a dream: to save the northern white rhinoceros, the world’s rarest large mammal. On Monday the scientist received the devastating…