“The United States has a—sadly—unique perspective on the human consequences of the production, testing, and use of nuclear weapons,” the four lawmakers assert. Amid the looming threat of nuclear escalation in Ukraine, a group of U.S. congressional Democrats on Friday urged the Biden administration to send delegates to a key upcoming nuclear disarmament summit in Austria. […]
“We support Congress and the Biden administration taking long-overdue action to… reestablish protections for this crown jewel of our national wildlife refuge system,” said one activist. Conservationists and climate campaigners on Thursday welcomed the news that another fossil fuel company has canceled a controversial Trump-era lease to drill for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, […]
The incident is the 20th U.S. mass shooting since the May 24 massacre of 21 students and staff at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Tulsa police confirmed Wednesday that five people were killed, including the shooter, during a mass shooting at a medical facility in the northeastern Oklahoma city. The Tulsa World reports the shooting occurred Wednesday afternoon […]
“This has become part of who we are as a country,” said Julián Castro. “The free availability of guns has not made us safer in the United States or here in the state of Texas.” A South Texas town is reeling Tuesday after at least 21 people—including 19 students and two adults—were killed and an unknown number […]