Outside 'instigators' and 'agitators' are behind violence, university leaders insist: Live updates Officers in tactical gear descended on the UCLA campus and removed barricades tents occupied by throngs of demonstrators. 05/2/2024 - 9:41 am | View Link
Police are begging lawmakers to stop relaxing gun laws. Charlotte shows why. From New York to Texas to Alabama, law enforcement officials have warned for years that relaxing gun laws would lead to more violence toward police. The fatal shooting of a local police officer and ... 05/1/2024 - 2:59 am | View Link
US poised to ease restrictions on marijuana in historic shift, but it’ll remain controlled substance “Criminal records for marijuana use and possession have imposed needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities,” Biden said in December. “Too many lives have been upended ... 05/1/2024 - 1:25 am | View Link
Here's what's happening with the gun bills under consideration at the Minnesota Capitol A trio of gun bills set to pass the Minnesota House faces an uncertain fate in the Senate. The big picture: While they have full control of state government, Minnesota Democrats are still looking to ... 04/30/2024 - 12:24 am | View Link
New Maine gun laws can help fill troubling gaps to prevent future violence There is also pushback that new laws aren’t needed, that ... In addition, sadly, there are so many gun deaths in the U.S. each year that some patterns have become pretty clear. For example, waiting ... 04/29/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
“The presidential election may come down to a city in the Midwestern prairie that is home to Warren Buffett — a prospect that is raising hopes among some Democrats that the once-prolific political donor will come off the sidelines to try to power President Joe Biden to reelection,” Bloomberg reports.
“Back in 2016, the Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
“The U. S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine, with the massive outlay being repaid with the windfall profits from sovereign Russian assets that have been frozen – and are accruing interest — mostly in Europe,” Bloomberg reports.
“Republicans have launched more than 30 investigations into the State Department since taking power in 2023, an unusually high number that is fueling partisan tensions,” Politico reports.
“Democratic lawmakers and State Department officials say this particular chapter of the growing partisan rancor on Capitol Hill is affecting U. S. foreign policy: It distracts U.
Nevada Independent: “The lawsuit alleges that the four-day period for mail ballots postmarked by Election Day to be received violates federal law because it does not conform to the Election Day deadline established by the federal government.”
Reproductive rights organizers in two states with near-total abortion bans, Missouri and South Dakota, submitted roughly double the signatures needed to allow ballot measures that would put abortion before voters.
In South Dakota, organizers have submitted 55,000 signatures in support of the ballot measure granting a limited right to abortion—far more than the 35,000 required.