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“Firearms are the number one killer of our kids in America. That’s a uniquely American problem.” Two children, aged 8 and 10, were killed Wednesday when a former student fired dozens of shots through the stained-glass church windows at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. Seventeen other people were injured. We speak to Kris Brown, president of the gun violence prevention organization Brady, about what she characterizes as the “solvable” issue of mass gun violence and how right-wing policymakers and their pro-gun policies are making “all of us far ... continua

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This week marks 80 years since the first use of nuclear weapons in war, when the United States dropped a pair of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed in the bombings. Many died instantly, and many others died more slowly from severe burns and radiation sickness. Some estimates put the combined death toll over 250,000 killed. We speak with veteran journalist Greg Mitchell, whose new documentary, streaming at PBS.org and airing on PBS, reexamines a remarkable episode in the ... continua

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Grand Prix of San Marino 1994. During the test session, Barrichello left the track at 320 km/h and is doing miraculously. March 31, Ratzenberger was killed during testing. May 1, at 2:18 p.m., Senna promises waving Austrian flag on the arrival of the Grand Prix, in honor of Ratzenbergzer. Shortly after departure, cars collide and a wheel flew to the stands 3 spectators and injuring a policeman. A new start is given. Author of his 65th pole position, Senna leading the race when he lost control of his car that goes hit a concrete wall at 300 km/h. 2 billion viewers ... continua

There is a tiny village in Hungary, where Éva and her family live. Her 16-year-old child recently came out as transgender and lives by his chosen name of Tobi. After the initial shock, the whole family comes together to support him.
However, Éva is quietly suffocating from the idea of losing the girl she was raising. Tobi is determined to become a man biologically, all while he struggles growing up. Éva is trying hard to be the mother her son needs, while Tobi starts questioning the boundaries he set up for himself as a transgender man.
'Colors of Tobi' is an ... continua

A deeply layered tale of shipwreck, steep loss of life, courage, sacrifice and human endurance; of rescue and remembrance.

Israel’s military says it has established a foothold on the outskirts of Gaza City and is calling up an additional 60,000 reservists ahead of a full-scale invasion of Gaza’s largest urban area. This follows days of escalating airstrikes and artillery fire that have killed scores of Palestinians in one of the world’s most densely populated regions.
Dr. Mimi Syed is an emergency medicine physician who’s been on two medical missions in Gaza working in hospitals that were under Israeli siege and was just denied reentry into Gaza, mere hours before she was ... continua

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A small city located in the heart of the Amazon, Humaitá has one inhabitant per square kilometer. However, it has six bus companies. The most famous, the company “Siquiera”, is run by Luis and his son Leandro. They are the only ones who dare to venture onto Nacional 319, the most dangerous road in Brazil. If the other companies threw in the towel, both persist. After considerable effort, they decided to rehabilitate an abandoned road that runs deep into the Amazon rainforest.

Hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” have disappeared. Democracy Now! speaks with Shirsho Dasgupta, a Miami Herald reporter who found that, as of late August, about two-thirds of the 1,800 immigrants who were held there in July have gone missing from ICE’s online database, with their families and attorneys unable to locate them. Earlier this month, a federal appeals court ruled the jail could continue to operate despite reports of abuse.
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Six Republican-led states have now pledged National Guard troops to the Trump administration’s takeover of Washington, D.C., where it has assumed control of policing under the claim of tackling crime. Along with the D.C. National Guard that Trump already controlled, this brings the total number of troops in the streets of the capital to more than 2,000. The federal takeover comes even as violent crime in the capital is at a 30-year low — numbers the Trump administration now disputes, with the Justice Department launching an investigation into whether those crime ... continua

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One year ago, Nikolas Cruz legally purchased a semi-automatic rifle, walked into his old high school in Parkland, Florida, and killed 17 people. After the event, students decided to take on the all-powerful American gun rights lobby: the National Rifle Association. Tracing the story of a student uprising unlike any seen before, this moving documentary explores how, with its five million members and many political connections, the NRA manages to keep such a permissive gun law alive, and why it has such a strong hold over American society.