Cartoon: The Color Of Justice

The proposed ban on the sale, transfer and manufacturing of many high-powered, semi-automatic guns in Colorado will face an uphill fight in the state Senate after clearing the House for the first time. The measure, House Bill 1292, would ban guns referred to as “assault” weapons by its Democratic sponsors. It now heads to a Senate committee that includes one of the most vocal gun violence prevention advocates in the state — who happens to be a longtime skeptic of the effectiveness of blanket prohibitions like the one proposed. Sen.

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With private investors poised to profit from water scarcity in the west, US senator Elizabeth Warren and representative Ro Khanna are pursuing a bill to prohibit the trading of water as a commodity. The lawmakers will introduce the bill on Thursday afternoon, the Guardian has learned.

Iran's ruling mullahs and Iran's people are different.

To restore the rule of law at the border, first we must restore the rule of law at DHS.

If you work your way through Hamas’s conduct and the moral response, it is immoral to back down before Hamas practices of hiding behind civilians.

In colonial America, jurors could get over their biases; in an America defined by emotions and “my truth,” Trump’s trial is irrevocably tainted