Politics Doesn’t Have to Be Dire. Meet the Young, Smart, and Openly Trans Leader Making the Future Brighter.
B. Proud Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At 27, Sarah McBride has already made LGBT history. In 2016, she became the first openly transgender person to address a major party’s nominating convention, taking the stage just hours before Hillary Clinton. Before that, as an intern, she was the first openly trans…
President Trump is Sullen, Isolated, Abandoned, and Alone
Bruce R. Bennett/The Palm Beach Post via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. How is our president doing these days? Here’s a quick summary from media reports: Washington Post: Angry and increasingly isolated … fumes … voices frustration … revives old grudges … seethed with anger … raging … venting…
A Philando Castile Charity Just Wiped Out School Lunch Debt in His Old District
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thousands of school kids in Minnesota can now eat school lunches without incurring more debt, thanks to Philando Castile. Castile was a popular school nutrition supervisor in St. Paul before he was shot and killed by police in July 2016. Since his death, which was…
Donald Trump Has Spent Nearly a Quarter of His Days as President at His Golf Courses
Patrick Semansky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The National Rifle Association is pissed, the White House’s battle-tested communications staff is reeling, and hundreds of thousands of young immigrants are worried about how their lives will change on Monday. But Donald Trump keeps on golfing! With his appearance Saturday at his Palm…
America’s Newest Weather Satellite Is a Game-Changer for Forecasting Catastrophic Natural Events
United Launch Alliance Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by WIRED and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. 2017 was a grievously good year for cataclysms. Infernos engulfed not just California, which suffered its most destructive wildfire season on record, but the greater American West. A hyperactive…
The Florida Senate Is Holding a Special Weekend Session to Debate Arming Teachers
A law enforcement officer talks with students, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, in Parkland, Fla. A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School sent students rushing into the streets as SWAT team members swarmed in and locked down the building. Wilfredo Lee/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Florida Senate is…