News | News

Ankara Bombings Kill 86, Injure 186

Terror at a peace rally.

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Syrian Government Forces Launch Wide-Ranging Offensive

I just wish the killing would stop. Everywhere.

Politics | Politics

The Families Funding the 2016 Presidential Election

Just 158 families have provided nearly half of the early money for efforts to capture the White House.

Of the people. For the rich.

Politics | Politics

Targeting Shadow Banking, Clinton Casts Glass-Steagall As

Clinton's plan to rein in modern Wall Street: taxing high-frequency trading, closing a loophole in the

Politics | Politics

Rupert Murdoch Says Ben Carson Would Be A 'Real Black President'

A Fox or a jackass?

Travel | Los Angeles

John Lennon's 75th birthday to be marked Friday in Hollywood

Los Angeles will join several cities worldwide hosting events on Friday to commemorate what would have been John Lennon’s 75 th birthday.

“I hope the Imagine Peace Tower will give light to the strong wishes of World Peace from all corners of the planet,” Ono said in a statement. “And give encouragement, inspiration and a sense of solidarity in a world now filled with fear and confusion. Let us come together to realize a peaceful world.”

Travel | Los Angeles

25 Things You Might Not Know About Los Angeles

You know the Hollywood sign, the Lakers, and the traffic, but here are a few Los Angeles nuggets that may have slipped past you.

8. How did the film industry end up in LA? To get away from Thomas Edison. Edison—who lived in New Jersey—held most of the country’s film patents. Filmmakers fled westward to avoid Edison’s intellectual property claims.

News | Guns kill people

Meet A Generation That Has Grown Up Free From Mass Shootings

We could do this too if any of our politicians cared even remotely about people more than about being asses.

News | Guns kill people

'Nothing We Can Do' and Other Lies About Gun Violence | Jim Wallis

Suppose we arm everyone -- do we really want to live in that kind of country and raise our children there? Or send our children to college on those campuses, as I will do for the first time next fall?

"...since 1970, more Americans have died from guns than died in all U.S. wars going back to the American Revolution. That's about 1.4 million war deaths since 1775, compared to about 1.45 million gun deaths since 1970...

in America, more preschoolers are shot dead each year (82 in 2013) than police officers are in the line of duty (27 in 2013)...

Including 9/11, a total of 3380 people have died from terrorism since 2001, while 406,496 people have died from firearms. This disparity is both ironic and revealing given the differences on coverage and tone from the media.

Almost 300 mass shootings (defined as shootings where at least 4 people were wounded or killed) have already taken place this year."

News | Guns kill people

1 Killed, 3 Wounded In Shooting At Northern Arizona University

This is the second school shooting in the U.S. this month.

"This is the 144th school shooting in the US since 2013."

News | Guns kill people

John Oliver slams Republicans who only want to talk about mental health to actively avoid gun control

The

"the vast majority of mentally ill people are nonviolent, and the vast majority of gun violence is committed by non-mentally-ill people."