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A March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., on June 11. The youth-led gun safety advocacy group is teaming up with parents from Uvalde, Texas, to demand that Gov. Greg Abbott hold a special session so that state lawmakers can vote on whether to raise

Politics & Government

Uvalde parents and advocates will rally in Austin to up the age for AR-15 purchases

8:58am August 26, 2022

by Dustin Jones

Gun safety advocates in Texas are demanding that Gov. Greg Abbott raise the age for purchasing AR-15-style rifles from 18 to 21. Abbott could put the issue to a vote by calling a special session.

Identical twins that married identical twins start their families

6:13am August 26, 2022

Brittany and Briana Dean dreamed of marrying another pair of twins. They met Jeremy and Josh Salyers in 2017. They got married a year later and both couples gave birth to sons five months apart.

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Swimming and sailing classes are just a few of the sports on offer to families who vacation in Punta Ala. Families return year after year to give their children a break in nature and let them reunite with friends they only see in the summer.

World News

Italy's Punta Ala, where the sea beckons and relationships run deep

3:14pm August 24, 2022

by Adam Raney

On the Tuscan coast lies a beach town with no archaeological sites or Roman ruins. Instead, there are big houses, with tennis courts and stables — a sporty getaway for people with money to spend.

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Members of the Columbus Education Association rally earlier this summer ahead of their vote this past Sunday night to officially strike this week.

Why teachers from one of Ohio's largest school districts are on strike

4:23pm August 22, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

Children in the Columbus, Ohio, school system will likely begin their first day online because 4,500 teachers are striking after negotiations over a new contract with the district went nowhere.

In this 2020 photo, a sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

Released during COVID, some people are sent back to prison with little or no warning

10:02am August 22, 2022

by Carrie Johnson

"Where is the fairness?" One mother was sent back after a single failed drug test, and her family's life has now been turned upside down for more than a year.

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National

Remembering Mary Barr, the first woman to fly for the U.S. Forest Service

7:43am August 19, 2022

by Max Jungreis

Two sisters discuss growing up in California in the 1960s with their mother Mary Barr, who guided tanker planes on a safe path through wildfires.

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A mural in memory of Mary Luten, 59, who died while saving others in the Waverly flood, sits on display at The Walls Art Park. The flood on Aug. 21, 2021, killed 20 people and damaged more than 700 homes.

In a flood-ravaged Tennessee town, uncertainty hangs over the recovery

5:00am August 19, 2022

by Damon Mitchell

It's been one year since a flood tore through Waverly, Tenn., and killed 20 people. There's been lots of effort to rebuild, but it's still unclear if the town will ever be the same.

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Jewish townspeople of the village of Nasielsk, Poland in 1938.

'The Territory' and 'Three Minutes: A Lengthening' find cinematic hope in tragedy

6:22pm August 18, 2022

by Bob Mondello

A pair of documentaries gleans what it can from a pre-WWII home movie and Indigenous efforts to halt the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.

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States with abortion bans tend to have higher rates of child poverty.

States with the toughest abortion laws have the weakest maternal supports, data shows

10:54am August 18, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Many of the states that are moving to ban abortion tend to have less access to health care, worse maternal and infant health care outcomes and weaker social supports for children and families.

National

Are 'failure to protect' laws failing mothers?

4:59pm August 17, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Mother Jones reporter Samantha Michaels about an investigation into "failure to protect" laws and how abuse survivors can end up serving more time than their abusers.

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