Students who survived a massacre at their Parkland, Florida, high school last year unveiled an ambitious gun policy in the wake of the twin shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that claimed 31 lives one recent weekend. The Peace Plan for a Safer America, which students and graduates of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High […]
Just hours after his administration put forth a new rule to keep immigrant children detained indefinitely, President Donald Trump insisted that he was the one bringing immigrant families together. He left out the part about them being together in cages. “If you remember, President Obama had separation,” Trump insisted to reporters on the South Lawn […]
More than two dozen immigrants, including children, have died in U.S. government custody since President Donald Trump took office. The judicial branch has had to force Trump’s administration to provide basic hygiene tools like toothpaste to detained migrant children. Now, his immigration officials are saying they will not act to prevent influenza from spreading in […]
Democratic presidential contenders are increasingly singling out agriculture as the next great frontier for climate action, pushing plans that would empower rural and farming communities while addressing the sector’s contributions to greenhouse gas emissions. That trend represents a mounting scientific consensus that any effective efforts to counter global warming will need to involve overhauling land […]
President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning thanked conservative radio host Wayne Allyn Root, who this week called the president “King of Israel” and claimed Jewish people in Israel all love him. “[They] love him like he’s the King of Israel. They love him like he is the second coming of God…But American Jews don’t know […]
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump was reportedly enthusiastic — at least momentarily — about holding a Rose Garden ceremony to sign a gun-control bill that included expanding background checks for gun purchases. He was so thrilled about the prospect of that historic act, in fact, that he called the National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre […]
The 55 Public Square building in downtown Cleveland is, for all intents and purposes, a Cleveland landmark. Twenty-two stories tall, just a couple of blocks from the home of the Cleveland Indians, designers completed the modernist office building in 1958, a sign of Cleveland’s post-war boom. It was also, according to a lawsuit filed earlier […]
Less than two months removed from the most-watched Women’s World Cup ever, FIFA, the governing body of soccer, is once again showing how little it cares about the women’s game. On Monday, FIFA announced that Belgium had showcased a desire to host the 2023 Women’s World Cup, which made them the 10th country to express […]
