September 2020 Impact Articles
- Is South Carolina really in play for the Democrats?
- Lockheed Martin is accused of creating an "environmental nightmare" in Florida
- Climate change made a surprise appearance at the presidential debate
- The 5 most nightmarish moments from last night's presidential debate
- David Attenborough has the fastest-growing Instagram account in history
- "I feel bamboozled": How Kanye's campaign allegedly stole voters' signatures to get on the ballot
- Cancel the remaining presidential debates
- The Proud Boys are "standing by," just like Trump told them to
- The recordings from the Breonna Taylor grand jury will be made public
- A quarter of Americans cite climate change as a reason they don't want kids
- Don’t underestimate the power of the putdown in a presidential debate
- The 'Animal Crossing' fall update is all about Halloween
- How might Amy Coney Barrett rule on environmental issues?
- Do presidential debates even matter?
- Making an impact in this election means a lot of real, unglamorous work
- Trump campaign tried to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016, new report says
- Nearly 1 million people have voted in the election already
- Elon Musk sees climate change as an existential threat, but might vote Trump anyway
- Can Trump and McConnell get through the 4 steps to seat a Supreme Court justice in just 6 weeks?
- Trump's tax return information was obtained by The New York Times. Here are 5 things we learned
- The world is switching to renewable energy. What does that mean for coal and gas states?
- At independent abortion clinics, escorts are protecting patients by getting loud
- The 3 best hair clippers
- Who is Amy Coney Barrett? A guide to Trump's likely Supreme Court pick
- The CDC pulled a coronavirus-tracking team from Minnesota because residents were so racist
- Fox News dodged a defamation lawsuit by convincing a judge that Tucker Carlson sucks, actually
- The USPS dismantled its mail-sorting machines and stripped them for parts
- 5 Black women imagine what true justice for Breonna Taylor would look like
- California is banning gas-powered car sales. Here's how it will work.
- Mary Trump just sued her uncle Donald for allegedly helping screw her out of her family inheritance
- What is Amazon's Luna? What you need to know about the newest streaming game service
- Our food system is broken and racist. Meet the farmers trying to change the way we eat
- The Trumps went to pay their respects to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and it didn't go great
- Protests explode for Breonna Taylor after no officers were charged in her killing
- Racism has cost the U.S. $16 trillion over the past 20 years
- Kenosha victims are suing Facebook for enabling militias to "inflict extreme violence"
- Your favorite websites might be giving your data to countless advertisers
- Only one of the Louisville police officers involved in Breonna Taylor's death will face charges
- Donald Trump's new executive order bans anti-racism and anti-sexism efforts as "harmful ideologies"
- China, the world's biggest polluter, says it will be carbon neutral by 2060
- Pennsylvania's "naked ballot" ruling could cause massive voter disenfranchisement
- Here are some extremely disquieting ways Donald Trump might steal the election
- An officer involved in Breonna Taylor's killing said police actions were "legal, moral and ethical"
- Facebook suspended the accounts of environmental activists trying to plan a protest
- Mitt Romney, Chuck Grassley, and more Senate Republicans are in favor of voting for Trump’s SCOTUS nominee
- Triller: Everything you need to know about the TikTok rival attracting huge names
- NASA has a $28 billion plan to land a woman on the moon — and soon
- Louisville declared a state of emergency ahead of the Breonna Taylor case decision
- Zoom isn't working: How to fix and troubleshoot the app
- If Democrats win a Maine Senate seat, it will be because voters really distrust Susan Collins
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wants to withhold funding from any city that defunds the police
- Nothing says late-stage capitalism quite like this evictions-on-demand service
- New York City, Portland, and Seattle are officially "anarchist jurisdictions," according to the DOJ
- Twitter says it doesn't know why its image-cropping algorithm prioritizes white faces
- Zoning policies have put millions at risk of losing everything to wildfires
- Nancy Pelosi hasn't ruled out impeaching Trump again
- How the Monthly Economic Crisis Support Act could end poverty in the U.S.
- What exactly are the origins of U.S. immigration agencies? Here's what you should know
- Louisville's Metro Council passed a 'no confidence' vote in response to Mayor Greg Fischer's handling of the Breonna Taylor case
- Trump's '1776 Commission' isn't education, it's optics
- A federal judge ordered the USPS to treat all election mail as first-class mail
- A new report reveals yet another way Jared Kushner hindered the national coronavirus response
- From black holes to dark matter, 6 space oddities explained by an expert
- Access to housing is key to preventing incarceration
- A Dallas teacher assigned an essay on why the Kenosha shooter is a "hero for the modern age"
- The White House contradicted the CDC with an unfounded vaccine timeline
- 100-million-year-old animal sperm found preserved in amber is terrifyingly large
- Inside the youth climate movement hoping to inspire a new generation of voters
- The White House reportedly scrapped a plan for the USPS to distribute face masks to every U.S. household
- Attorney General William Barr claimed coronavirus lockdowns are the 'greatest intrusion on civil liberties' since slavery
- The Trump administration reportedly considered using military heat rays to clear Lafayette Square protestors for a photo-op
- Watch the moving trailer for the upcoming Greta Thunberg documentary, 'I Am Greta'
- Decolonize the classroom: These teens want to dismantle America's racist history curriculum
- The alleged hysterectomies of ICE detainees add to the U.S. legacy of forced sterilizations
- How to delete Facebook and live your best life
- Sarah McBride cinches primary win to likely become the first openly transgender state senator in U.S. history
- Hurricane Sally is pummeling the Gulf Coast. Here's a look at the damage so far
- A Parkland father's haunting new anti-gun ad highlights two American traditions
- Apple iOS 14: All the best new features
- As the planet warms, starving birds are falling from the sky in a "mass die-off"
- A groundbreaking new survey on Gen Z and the Holocaust is deeply discouraging
- The new iPad Air is one of Apple's most environmentally-friendly designs
- It doesn't really matter how the fires started, climate change made them worse
- Breonna Taylor's family will reportedly receive a $12 million settlement from the city of Louisville
- There might be life on Venus, astronomers say
- How to keep your passwords and online accounts safe
- A Trump-appointed judge ruled that coronavirus prevention measures were unconstitutional
- The Trump administration is now trying to stop abortions internationally
- Trump appointed a climate denier to the government's climate change-fighting agency
- How 'Animal Crossing' players are designing their islands for fall
- Why do voting machines break on Election Day?
- Meet 18-year-old Niles Francis, the next generation of election forecaster
- California's inmate firefighters can now become professionals once they're free
- The George Floyd murder trial is already off to a chaotic start
- Paul Krugman's bad 9/11 tweet is the latest example of Trump-addled history revisionism
- A Missouri teacher died from coronavirus, underscoring the life-or-death stakes this school year
- Trump refuses to let being president get in the way of his extensive TV-watching schedule
- Portland just banned the use of tear gas by cops
- 11 photos that show the horrific destruction of the West Coast wildfires
- Chief WWF scientist: Human activity has shrunk wildlife by 70% and caused ecosystems to "unravel"
- Facebook's "Campus" might remind you of a time when the site wasn't a dumpster fire
- The Bob Woodward revelation fallout is getting stupider by the day
- How tear gas may be wreaking havoc on protesters' reproductive health
- The USPS removed over 700 mail-sorting machines in an election year
- It's 2020. Why can't we vote with our phones?
- Apple iPhone 12 rumors include slimmer phones, smaller batteries, and new colors
- Trump's updated Supreme Court shortlist includes a few infamous senators
- The rate of mammal extinctions is speeding up
- Facebook is "profiting off hate," a former Facebook employee says in a scathing resignation letter
- Bob Woodward's book confirms what we knew in March: Trump doesn't care if people die
- The new Xbox consoles are coming on Nov. 10 — and they're surprisingly cheap
- Trump's brilliant debate plan is to just wing it
- A coronavirus relief bill no one really likes is about to get a vote in the Senate
- Pollution is responsible for one in eight deaths in Europe, per a damning new report
- Joe Biden's environmental record, from 1973 to today
- The Trump campaign has reportedly already blown through nearly $1 billion in re-election funds
- How to customize your gaming consoles to save energy — and the planet
- How do carbon offsets work? Here’s what you should know before buying
- The 5 best alien movies to watch on Netflix
- Postmaster General Louis DeJoy accused of trading political donations for bonuses from employees
- Trump now claims he was being "sarcastic" when he fawned over Kim Jong Un's "love letters"
- California's devastating El Dorado Wildfire is the result of a "pyrotechnic" gender reveal
- The 6 best Logitech keyboards
- One of the Breonna Taylor cops was photographed wearing a body camera
- Professor Jessica Krug is under investigation by George Washington University after she admitted to pretending to be Black
- Daniel Prude's death in police custody has led to the suspension of 7 officers
- Abortion might reach the Supreme court again following a federal court ruling on the "gag rule"
- A study of more than 10,000 protests this year found 95% were peaceful
- Of course active shooter drills are wreaking havoc on kids' mental health
- ICE arrested 2,000 undocumented immigrants in six weeks
- Conservative sheriff urges Kyle Rittenhouse wannabes to "have a plan" for killing protesters
- Facebook promises to do the bare minimum to not ruin the presidential election
- Trump encouraged North Carolinans to vote illegally in order to test the "system"
- Deepfakes 101: Everything you need to know about the surreal technology
- The Trump administration would like to know if you live in an "anarchist jurisdiction"
- Meet the designer creating a cleaner Earth by putting an end to single-use products
- A Kenosha store owner accused Trump of staging a bogus photo-op at his business
- The vibrations from the most massive collision of black holes ever recorded just hit Earth
- The federal government wants to collect biometric data from immigrants
- Iowa's coronavirus response has been bad, and is only getting worse
- What are geofence warrants?
- The quest for renewable energy could wreak havoc on wildlife, report warns
- Russian agents are reportedly trying to spread false rumors about Biden's mental decline
- Joe Biden's record on gun control, from his early Senate days to the 2020 race
- This new poll shows Trump trailing where he should be winning
- Grab an official Biden-Harris yard sign for your Animal Crossing island
- Trump gives coal plants the green light to dump toxic waste in rivers and streams
- Trump just compared police violence against Black people to a game of golf
- Massachusetts' contentious Senate primary is upon us. Here's what you should know
