What actually reduces gun violence? The NRA helped make it hard to study for decades. Now these studies are getting federal funding to seek solutions.
Author: Grace Hauck, USA TODAY
Cooper Roberts, boy paralyzed in July 4th shooting, finally goes outside – and enjoys a popsicle
Cooper Roberts, 8, was able to go outside in a wheelchair and eat a popsicle, the first time since being paralyzed in the Highland Park shooting.
Fourth of July parade shooting leaves another community traumatized – and transformed
Like many others before them, residents of Highland Park are embarking on the long journey of reckoning with the aftermath of a mass shooting.
They came for the American dream. On the Fourth of July, they survived an American shooting.
The massacre at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, is the most recent in an American tradition of mass shootings.
‘Going to be watching’: Hurricane Agatha expected to hit Mexico on Monday. Is it a threat to the US?
Hurricane Agatha is expected to hit southern Mexico as a category 3 storm Monday. U.S. meteorologists are keeping watch of where it’s heading.
An open door, missed opportunity, ‘wrong decision’: List of what went wrong in Texas school massacre grows
Numerous instances of mistakes, misjudgments or misfortune allowed the massacre of 19 children and two teachers in a Texas school to continue.
It’s not just Uvalde, Texas — shootings on school grounds is at historic highs in the US
Gunfire on school property is at an all-time high, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database at the Naval Postgraduate School.
These adoptees refuse to be ‘political props’ in the debate over abortion rights
A growing chorus of adoptees are speaking out about the traumas of adoption. It’s not a replacement for abortion rights, they say.
Gun violence is seeping onto American sports fields – and it’s impacting kids
Gunfire sent hundreds of children and parents running last week at a football game in Virginia, the latest gun violence at kids’ sporting events.
Where your recycling actually goes – and what you can do about it this Earth Day
Americans have long been encouraged to reduce, reuse and recycle. But less than 9% of plastic is recycled in the U.S.