In the wake of many recent mass shootings, U.S. President Joe Biden is calling for new gun safety restrictions, including the possibility of expanding background checks and banning the sales of assault weapons. You […]
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday night that the lower chamber would move on legislation aimed at banning the sale of assault weapons like the AR-15 or similar styles in the U.S. Weapons […]
The not-guilty verdict in the court case against Kyle Rittenhouse has ignited a debate about self-defense laws and also gun carry laws in the United States. In August 2020, Rittenhouse, then 17 years old, […]
Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed his state’s much-discussed Parental Rights in Education bill, much more frequently called the Don’t Say Gay bill, into law. While his signature was the final step for the legislation […]
According to a new survey among 19,000 people in 27 countries carried out by Ipsos, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium were among the countries most supportive of the rights of same-gender couples. Maybe more […]
With Pride Month under way, LGBT+ Americans and allies are celebrating with parades, festivals drag shows and more. So, how many Americans actually identify as LGBT? According to a 2020 Gallup poll reported by Statista, which […]
Transgender people in the United States are four times more likely to be the victim in a crime than cisgender people, research out of the Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles School […]
According to the Forbes Global 2000 published Thursday, Saudi state oil company Saudi Aramco is once again the world’s most profitable company as oil prices recovered in the second year of the coronavirus pandemic. […]
In 1889, inventor William Gray and developer George A. Long installed the first pay phone at a bank in Hartford, Connecticut. By 1902, there were 81,000 pay phones in the United States. The number […]
The fatal shooting of 19 elementary school students and two adults in Uvalde, Texas, triggered an outpouring of grief, but also anger across the United States. Ten years after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, the […]