A record amount of carbon dioxide, and more

A record amount of carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide emissions around the world last year jumped by the largest amount on record, increasing by half a billion tons. The 5.9 percent rise was the largest since 2003.

The New York Times

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President Obama's fund-raisers

President Obama has attended 69 fund-raisers so far this year. That’s an average of one fund-raiser every five days—far more than Presidents George W. Bush or Bill Clinton in their third years.

MotherJones.com

White men on Wall Street earn more

White men working for Wall Street firms earn an average of $154,500 a year. That’s 55 percent more than white women and 72 percent more than black men who work for the same firms.

The Wall Street Journal

Firearms sold on Black Friday set a record

Black Friday set a record for the most firearms sold in the U.S. in a single day. Americans bought at least 129,166 firearms on Nov. 25—32 percent more than the previous one-day record.

USA Today

Presidential pardons and race

An overwhelming percentage of convicted criminals pardoned by presidents over the past decade were white, a ProPublica study found. President George W. Bush pardoned 189 people—all but 13 of whom were white. All 34 drug offenders pardoned by Bush were white. The racial disparity “is very troubling to me and will be to [Bush], because we had no idea of the race of any applicant,” said Fred Fielding, Bush’s White House counsel. President Obama has only pardoned 22 people thus far; 20 were white.

The Washington Post