Colt Suspends Manufacture Of Controversial AR-15 For Civilian Market
Firearms manufacturer Colt says it is suspending production of its popular AR-15 semi-automatic assault-style rifle for the civilian market, saying it will concentrate instead on fulfilling contracts from the military and law enforcement.
'It Gets To You.' Extremism Researchers Confront The Unseen Toll Of Their Work
Charlie Winter, a London-based terrorism researcher, was dining with friends one recent evening when the conversation turned to whether it is ethical to eat meat.
Someone brought up slaughterhouse conditions, Winter said, and he instantly grew uneasy. He stayed for a while longer, squirming, and then finally left the room. That word — "slaughterhouse" — had conjured images of one of the most gruesome ISIS videos he'd come across. The militants had filmed a mass execution in a slaughterhouse, casting their prisoners as the animals.
A Rising Generation Asserts Itself On Climate Change
Spurred by what they see as a sluggish, ineffectual response to the existential threat of global warming, student activists from around the world are skipping school Friday, for what organizers call a Global Climate Strike.
The young activists are protesting as the U.N. prepares to hold its Climate Action Summit on Monday in New York City.
Investors May Prefer Companies With More Women In The Workforce
You have $1, and you're thinking about investing it in the stock market. All you know about the company you're going to invest in is that it's a tech company with more women on its workforce than the average tech firm.
How much of your dollar do you invest?
'We're Young, But We're Not Dumb': Millions March In Global Climate Strike
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Millions of young people are raising their voices at protests around the world Friday in a massive display meant to demand urgent action on climate change. Scores of students are skipping school to take part, some joined by teachers and parents.
Some of the first rallies began in Australia, and then spread from Pacific islands to India and Turkey and across Europe, as students kicked off the Global Climate Strike.
To Better Understand The Arctic, This Ship Will Spend A Year Frozen Into The Ice
The mission is known as the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate, or MOSAiC. Its overarching goal is to collect a vast trove of data that can help improve how the Arctic is represented in climate models.
To do that, a group of scientists will try to freeze an icebreaker into the ice — for an entire year.
Teen Charged In Fatal Stabbing Of Student That Dozens Filmed, Shared On Social Media
An 18-year-old has been arrested and charged in the stabbing death this week in New York of Khaseen Morris, who died surrounded by a crowd of students taking cellphone video of the attack as he bled out on the ground.
Trudeau Apologizes But Sidesteps Questions On Number Of Blackface Incidents
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized after after photos surfaced showing him wearing brownface and blackface as a young man, saying he has no plans to resign and vowing to continue his campaign for re-election in October.
"Darkening your face, regardless of the context or the circumstances, is always unacceptable because of the racist history of black face," Trudeau said at a news conference Thursday in a public park in Winnipeg. "I should have understood that then and I never should have done it."
Fate Of Fetal Remains Unclear As Investigation Continues In Indiana
It has been a week since the disturbing discovery of thousands of fetal remains at the home of a former abortion provider, and authorities still don't know why he kept them.
Ulrich Klopfer had performed abortions at three clinics in Indiana but lived across the state line in Illinois.
As Drugmakers Face Opioid Lawsuits, Some Ask: Why Not Criminal Charges Too?
Purdue Pharma, facing a mountain of litigation linked to the opioid epidemic, filed for bankruptcy in New York this week. The OxyContin manufacturer and its owners, the Sackler family, have offered to pay billions of dollars to cities and counties hit hard by the addiction crisis.
But that's not good enough for critics such as U.S. Rep. Max Rose.
