The Trump administration is reportedly launching a campaign to decriminalize homosexuality around the world. According to NBC News, Iran is one of the primary targets of the effort, drawing attention to President Donald Trump’s history of conflating support for the LGBTQ community with Islamophobic messaging.
The catalyst for the decision appears to have been Iran’s hanging of a gay man in January. Iran has long been one of Trump’s biggest international foes, and t...
‘We have to lead with the life’: How teen journalists covered 1,200 young gun deaths since Parkland
You can search by name on “Since Parkland,” a database of obituaries written by student journalists of all the young people killed by guns in the 365 days since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. With the exception of police shootings and suicides, the project is a full accounting of the 1,200 children, ages 0 to 18, whose lives have been ended by guns since Valentine’s Day, 2018.
It’s a beautiful and understated site, with the dead sorted into categories th...
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Aurora man who makes crosses for shooting victims puts five in hometown
- Five people died and six were injured in Illinois shooting
- Greg Zanis has crossed America placing shooting memorials
A man who has delivered more than 26,000 white crosses to sites around the US, largely to remember victims of gun violence, has now found himself doing the same in his hometown: Aurora, Illinois, where five people were killed and six injured in a workplace shooting on Friday.
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Aurora shooting victim’s wife says he texted ‘I love you’ after being shot
The day after Valentine's Day, Terra Pinkard received a final text message from the love of her life.
Aurora shooting: background check failures let gunman keep firearm
Second check found conviction involving stabbing of ex-girlfriend which led to loss of permit but gun was not handed to police
The man who shot and killed five people and wounded six at an Illinois business on Friday passed an initial background check that failed to detect a felony conviction that should have stopped him buying the gun.
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Everyone had an opinion about how to hang the curtains: on a woman’s right to use tools | Phoebe Paterson de Heer
I had to gain the confidence that always seemed to come naturally to my partner to release my inner handywoman
Last year my partner and I moved into a new house. The whole exercise was exhilarating – finally, a place we owned – but it also unearthed in me a desperation, a deep frustration. For a long time I’ve wanted to be someone who fixes things, builds things, someone who is capable in practical day-to-day tasks. I own tools, I have ideas and I tinker with my surroundings, but I’v...
Aurora gunman opened fire on his coworkers as soon as he lost his job
Illinois gunman Gary Martin brought a pistol to his termination meeting at the sprawling Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora. When he found out he'd been fired Friday, he started killing the people in the room, authorities said.
Cancún shooting: five people gunned down in Mexico’s tourist hotspot
Bar attacked near hotel zone amid rising drug-related violence in the Caribbean resort city
Five people have been shot dead and five more wounded in Cancún after gunmen burst into a bar in the Mexican resort city and opened fire.
Quintana Roo state prosecutors said the attack on Saturday took place in a club called La Kuka, on a main avenue in central Cancún about 6km (4 miles) away from the Caribbean resort city’s seaside tourist hotel zone, situated on the Yucatán Peninsula.<...
Illinois shooting rampage highlights scourge of workplace gun violence
Gary Martin opened fire with a Smith & Wesson on the day he was fired from the Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora, Illinois, killing five workers and wounding five police officers.