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After his company's response to the Parkland shooting, Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Ed Stack became an unlikely corporate face of gun control.

Soul-Searching After Parkland, Dick's CEO Embraces Tougher Stance On Guns

Ed Stack is a gun owner who was a longtime Republican donor. A year after Dick's Sporting Goods became an unlikely corporate face of gun control, it sees the fallout from its policy and lobbying.

Untreated hearing loss increases the risks of social isolation, dementia and depression, research finds.

Untreated Hearing Loss Linked To Loneliness And Isolation For Seniors

Hearing loss often happens gradually and earlier than expected. Getting hearing aids can help stave off side effects like depression and even early death.

The National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group that has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, held a rally in Newnan, Ga., in April 2018.

U.S. Hate Groups Rose 30 Percent In Recent Years, Watchdog Group Reports

The Southern Poverty Law Center says many groups are driven by white supremacist ideology and the "hysteria over losing a white-majority nation." Critics accuse the group of overblowing the threat.

If The Full Mueller Report Were Ever Released, What Might It Reveal?

The House is waging a political war with the Justice Department over the full results of the Russia investigation. If Congress wins, here's what more lawmakers — and maybe, Americans — could learn.

Swarthmore College students held a four-day sit-in at the Phi Psi fraternity house that ended Tuesday night after the organization said it had voted to disband. Delta Upsilon, the only other fraternity on campus, made a similar decision about an hour later.

Swarthmore Fraternities Disband Over Leaked Documents That Detailed Misogyny

"We were appalled and disgusted by the content of these minutes, which led us to question our affiliation with an organization," current members of Phi Psi said in a statement Tuesday night.

Ambulance staff take a man from outside a mosque in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday, March 15, 2019.

49 Killed At Mosques In 'One Of New Zealand's Darkest Days'

At least 49 people were shot to death at two mosques during midday prayers Friday — most if not all of them gunned down by an immigrant-hating white supremacist who apparently used a helmet-mounted camera to broadcast live video of the slaughter on Facebook.

<em>Shrill</em> executive producer Lindy West enjoyed making a fictionalized version of her life: "You can work out all your grudges and your resentments against everyone you've ever met, except with this plausible deniability because it's fictional," she says.

In 'Shrill,' Lindy West Made The Body Positive Show That She Never Had

"You don't see fat people being happy on TV. If there's a fat character on TV they are sad," West says. That's definitely not the case in Shrill, a Hulu comedy series adapted from West's 2016 memoir.

Water from the Flint River flows through the Hamilton Dam. In 2014, the city switched from Detroit's water system to the Flint River, setting the stage for a crisis that sickened residents and cost the mayor and other officials their jobs.

5 Years After Flint's Crisis Began, Is The Water Safe?

"In some ways we're better," says activist Melissa Mays. "In other ways, we're forever poisoned, damaged, traumatized ... that's not gonna ever be better."

Tre and his dad greet each other during Saturday visiting hours.

INDEPENDENT LENS: Tre Maison Dasan

Airs Monday, April 1, 2019 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

German prosecutors accuse Ron Cohen, CEO of gun manufacturing company Sig Sauer, of colluding with Sig Sauer's sister-company in Germany to export pistols to Colombia in direct violation of Germany's export rules.

CEO Of U.S. Gun-Maker Faces Jail In Germany

A decade after Sig Sauer inked a deal to sell up to $306 million worth of pistols to Colombia's National Police, company CEO Ron Cohen is facing jail time in Germany for making the sale.

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