This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Farmers in Iowa have relied on the same weather pattern for generations. Rain in the spring, heat with a little rain mixed in to sustain the …
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San Francisco Supervisor Catherine Stefani created a stir this week, winning unanimous passage of a resolution to label the NRA a “domestic terrorist organization,” citing the gun lobby’s violent rhetoric and promotion of loose gun laws. The NRA has blasted the measure as an “absurd” stunt and “an unprovoked assault …
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The Health and Human Services inspector general on Wednesday released a 48-page report detailing the intense psychological toll the Trump administration’s family separation policy takes on children. Last September, the Office of the Inspector General visited 45 of the 102 government-funded refugee resettlement facilities and interviewed the mental health clinicians, …
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WASHINGTON — Walmart announced Tuesday that it would gradually scale back its sales of guns and ammunition. The move comes after the massive retailer faced pressure from gun-control groups to take action on gun and ammo sales after the August 3 El Paso mass shooting at one of its stores. …
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Former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh announced Sunday, on ABC News’ This Week, that he will launch a primary challenge to President Donald Trump in 2020. Walsh, a talk-radio host, is the second Republican throw his hat in the ring, the first being former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld, who announced his …
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The first time I went into a Planned Parenthood, I was trying to find out my options for birth control. I was 19 and going to college, working toward my degree in Minneapolis, and knew it wasn’t the time to be pregnant. So I went to Planned Parenthood. Like millions …
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To mangle Twain, it’s better to remain silent and be thought a malignant narcissist than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. “I am the chosen one,” Donald Trump declared to reporters Wednesday on the White House lawn, looking toward the heavens. The president was reflecting on his trade …
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WASHINGTON —Oak Creek. Charleston. Pittsburgh. Charlottesville. Poway. And now, El Paso. That’s just to begin the list of places victimized by violence fueled by racism, bigotry, homophobia, or white supremacy — a list that grows longer with no end in sight. Hate crimes climbed by 17 percent in 2017, according …
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Listen to an audio version of this story below: Traveling hundreds of miles across Iowa, passing cornfields and covered bridges, visiting quaint small town after quaint small town, listening to the stump speeches of Democrat after would-be Donald Trump-combating Democrat, only one thought comes to mind: They’re gonna blow this …
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On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blocked an effort to unanimously pass a bill to reauthorize the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. Jon Stewart was not happy. “Pardon me if I’m not impressed in any way by Rand Paul’s fiscal responsibility virtue signaling,” a visibly disgusted Stewart told Bret Baier on …
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