Some Uvalde victims’ relatives hopeful, others unsatisfied by federal gun safety proposal
Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images(UVALDE, Texas) — Three weeks after one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history, some relatives of students gunned down at Robb Elementary School say they’re hopeful about the federal anti-gun …
What big city mayors are saying about gun control
makenoodle/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — What do America’s mayors intend to do about gun violence?
The U.S. Conference of Mayors held its 90th annual meeting from June 3-6 in Reno, Nevada. Dozens of mayors convened to share their plans and agendas followi…
What stagflation means and why it matters
Toby Scott/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — For months, sky-high prices have pummeled the budgets of everyday Americans.
But many have offset the damage, at least in part, with wage increases driven by high demand for workers and …
Surgeon general says kids need to be part of solution amid youth mental health crisis
STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Facing a growing mental health crisis among America’s teens and young adults, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy says the problem is not something adults can fix alone.
Adults need “to make sure…
Departing plane’s crew acted appropriately in harrowing incident with desperate Afghans: US military
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Multiple military reviews have found a cargo-plane crew acted appropriately and broke no rules in the course of a deadly incident during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last year, the Air Force anno…
Inside the Trump-backed effort to take ‘control’ of elections ahead of 2022 and 2024
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — In late April, after a year and a half of former President Donald Trump and his associates pushing false claims of election fraud, a few hundred attendees gathered at a golf resort in Williamsburg, Virginia, for an “Election Int…
Racial disparities in traffic fatalities wider than previously estimated: Study
Malorny/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Philadelphia resident Latanya Byrd’s 27-year-old niece Samara Banks and three of Banks’ sons were struck and killed by a speeding driver in 2013. They were crossing Roosevelt Boulevard, a 12-lane road that passes throu…
Reflecting on Juneteenth, 157 years later
Earl Gibson/Bounce TVOn June 19, 1865, the news of the Emancipation Proclamation — a document issued by President Abraham Lincoln that freed enslaved Black Americans — first reached Galveston, Texas, two years after its signing. In honor of Juneteent…
Could Lady Gaga be the next Harley Quinn?
Neilson Barnard/Getty ImagesLady Gaga is in early talks to play Harley Quinn in director Todd Phillips’ followup to the 2019 blockbuster, Joker, according to The Hollywood Reporter; and get this — the sequel is said to be a musical.
Last week Phillip…
Hunter Biden’s ex-wife speaks out to ABC News in first TV interview
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Kathleen Buhle was married to Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, for over two decades and raised three daughters with him before their divorce five years ago.
Now, Buhle has penned a memoir, If We Break: A Memoir of Ma…