This Democrat Doesn’t Want to Ban Assault Weapons. Republicans Are Attacking Him Anyway.
Keith Srakocic/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Next month’s special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th district, between Republican state Sen. Rick Saccone and Democrat Conor Lamb, will be the first congressional election after last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida. While many Republicans, including President Donald Trump, have been put on…
The NRA’s Plan to “Harden” Schools is Terrifying
tiwaongin/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During Wednesday night’s CNN town hall on school shootings, Lori Alhadeff, the parent of a 14-year-old victim of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting confronted the NRA’s national spokeswoman Dana Loesch on why her organization hadn’t done more to make schools safer. Alhadeff pointed…
The Trump Administration Just Got Sued Over an “Unusual Mortality Event” in the Ocean
Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On January 22, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration got word of a juvenile, North Atlantic right whale carcass floating off the coast of Virginia. Later identified as whale #3893, the 39-foot, 10-year-old female was towed to shore, where researchers examined her partially-decomposed remains.…
This Parkland Shooting Survivor Was the Third in Her Family to Escape a Gun Attack
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Curtosy of the Tylim family; Mother JonesDani Tylim was taking a math test at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14 when the fire alarm started ringing. Confused, the 18-year-old junior evacuated to a field by the school’s tennis courts. That’s when she heard the gunshots. “I thought…
The Day After Teens Poured Their Hearts Out, NRA’s LaPierre Deflects, Rages and Filibusters.
Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In his first public comments since a gunman killed 17 people last week at a Florida high school, the leader of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, went on the offensive Thursday morning, doubling down on the organization’s most strident pro-gun talking points,…
Here’s Why People Are Working Less
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Via Andrew Van Dam, a new paper tries to estimate why there are fewer people working than in the 90s. Much of this is due to the aging of the workforce, but even among prime working-age people the employment rate is down. Here’s the employment-population…