‘Radical and disgusting stance’: 44% of GOP voters think US just has to accept...
Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal responded that she cannot "accept children being gunned down in classrooms and mass shootings in grocery stores, salons, and places of worship."
Carbon dioxide in atmosphere reaches highest levels in millions of years, NOAA warns
“We have known about this for half a century, and have failed to do anything meaningful about it. What’s it going to take for us to wake up?”
Republicans, complicit in mass shootings, aiding & abetting domestic terrorists
We're going to find out before long, not whether America is an exceptional, indispensable nation but, rather, whether it can still be called a civilized nation.
Fraud doctor, pushing ‘miracle’ hydroxychloroquine, going to prison. Trump’s duplicate, more impactful malpractice remains...
We are beyond shock and awe, awaiting indictments, then trials, by inexplicably sluggish prosecutors.
A growing movement to reclaim water rights for Indigenous people
Native tribes are reliant on their local water sources, which have been continuously exploited and contaminated by the U.S. government and non-Native people. Indigenous groups are finding new ways to demand justice.
Finland becomes world’s first country to make legally binding carbon negativity pledge
“There is an important gap between current measures and those required to reach the targets, and now there is a legal obligation to act.”
Finland passes new Climate Change Act in first legally-binding climate negativity pledge
“High income countries have to take a progressive and active role when it comes to tackling climate change.”
Firearm stocks spike after mass shootings as investors dismiss the chance of tightening gun laws
Mass shootings occur with such frequency that we can no longer implement this kind of analysis looking at the effect of isolated incidents and the stock market effect on gun companies.
‘Madness’: Ohio GOP passes bill to arm teachers
"We aren't trusted with the books we choose, but somehow we're supposed to be trusted with a gun in school?" asked one teachers' union leader.
I’ve covered seven mass shootings. These are the memories that haunt me.
Columbine High School. Platte Canyon High School. Virginia Tech. Deer Creek Middle School. Aurora movie theater. Arapahoe High School. Santa Fe High School. ProPublica reporter Jenny Deam reflects on covering them all.