At least a dozen people are dead and many more are injured after numerous mass shootings took place across the United States over the Halloween weekend. There were 13 mass shootings — defined as when at least four victims are injured or killed — that took place between Friday and Sunday, according to the Gun Violence...
Elderly Black Americans are on the front lines of a coming spike in deaths from climate change, a new study has found. Between 2008 and 2019, extreme heat drove at least 1,600 Americans — disproportionately Black and elderly — to an early death from heart attacks. Without aggressive action on climate, that number could more than...
They share a toxic view that the government does more harm than good, and they are not in Congress to solve people’s problems, but to use a “scorched-earth” strategy to hasten the demise of the federal government.
Ethnic studies faculty at the University of California say calling attacks on Israeli civilians "terrorism" is making Palestinian students and community members "unsafe."
A group of 11 Republican senators is calling on President Biden to show them a plan about how to enhance security at the southern border amid heightened threats around the world.
2006—A South Dakota law enacted in 2005 sets forth informed-consent provisions for abortion, including that the woman undergoing abortion be informed that “the abortion...